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Los Angeles Chapter Sierra Club
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Camera CommitteeEastern Sierra Birding
April 9/10 2005RESERVATIONS REQUIRED
Leader: Allan Der
Assistant Leader/Reservationist: Sabrina NichollsThis trip is based on many years on Sea and Sage Audubon trips with my friend Roy Poucher.
Reservation fee is $5, refunded on trip. Make check payable to NSS and mail to: Reservationists. Birding skill level is beginner to intermediate. Include a SASE or your e-mail address for trip confirmation & information. Limited to 15, reserve early.
Looking for Black Backed Woodpeckers in Mono Basin, Burn AreaFriday is a travel day to get to Diaz Lake. Diaz Lake County Park is a conveniently located birding spot right along Highway 395 three miles south of Lone Pine. We will meet at Diaz lake at 7:30 Saturday morning and bird the lake. It offers the best birding during the fall, winter and spring with several habitats including open resting and feeding water, cattail and tule margins, riparian willow/cottonwood along the south end especially, irrigated pasture and desert scrub.
From there, we will drive up US 395 twards Bishop, birding along the way.
Coyote and grouse at lek
On Sun. morning, we will reassemble at 5 am to watch the Sage Grouse display on the lek. We will then proceed north to Mammoth and beyond, to look for Clarks Nutcracker, Black-billed Magpie, Sage Thrasher, Pinyon Jay, Black Backed Woodpecker and Common Loon in breeding plumage.
Equipment list
Bring binoculars, scope, tripod, camera, alarm clock (maybe two), warm clothes for early morning birding (30-40 degrees fahrenheit), FRS radios for caravans and sightings.
Bird photos taken in the area.
Lodging and/or camping
Previous trip sightings: Common Loon, Eared Grebe, Western Grebe, Clark's Grebe, American White Pelican, Double-crested Cormorant, Great Blue Heron, Black-crowned Night-Heron, White-faced Ibis, Canada Goose, Green-winged Teal, Mallard, Northern Pintail, Blue-winged Teal, Cinnamon Teal, Northern Shoveler, Gadwall, American Wigeon, Canvasback, Redhead, Ring-necked Duck, Lesser Scaup, Bufflehead, Ruddy Duck, Turkey Vulture, Osprey, Red-shouldered Hawk, Swainson's Hawk, Red-tailed Hawk, American Kestreal, Prairie Falcon, Blue Grouse, Sage Grouse, Forster's Tern, Rock Pigeon, Belted Kingfisher, Black-backed Woodpecker, Nuttall's Woodpecker, Hairy Woodpecker, White-headed Woodpecker, Northern Flicker. Black Phoebe, Say's Phoebe, Western Kingbird, Tree Swallow, Violet-green Swallow, Bank Swallow, Cliff Swallow, Barn Swallow, Steller's Jay, Western Scrub-Jay, Clark's Nutcracker, Black-billed Magpie, American Crow, Common Raven, Mountain Chickadee, White-breasted Nuthatch, Pygmy Nuthatch, Brown Creeper, Bewick's Wren, American Dipper, Ruby-crowned Kinglet, Mountain Bluebird, Townsend's Solitaire, Swainson's Thrush, American Robin, Sage Thrasher, American Pipit, European Starling, Yellow-rumped Warbler, Common Yellowthroat, Chipping Sparrow, Song Sparrow, White-crowned Sparrow, Dark-eyed Junco, Red-winged Blackbird, Western Meadowlark, Yellow-headed Blackbird, Brewer's Blackbird, Great-tailed Grackle, Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch, Cassin's Finch, Pine Siskin, and American Goldfinch.
Links:
VR of Diaz Lake, Requires a free QuickTime Player
Moose Peterson about Sage Grouse
