I’ve just finished a week in California. San Francisco. Pt. Reyes. Sam Pablo Bay. Sacramento Valley. Pt. Isabel. Putah Creek. Only only vagrant in this spring migration season.Tufted Duck on Tomales Bay behind the Inverness Grocery, enjoyed over lunch by my Pt. Reyes Field Institute birding class on Friday. 
The male Tufted was consorting with a small float of female scaup. 
Willet on the rocky shoreline at Pt. Isabel in Richmond. 
YB Magpie in eucs at Willows Rest Area along I-5. 
Wigeon at Pt. Isabel:
Male Brewer’s Blackbird in sun at rest area north of Red Bluff: 
Warning: Ravens at work. 
Ferruginous hawk in field along I-505 in Yolo County.
Gadwalls on Brazie Pond, Siskiyou County. 
Golden-crowned Sparrows, Ashland: 
Greater Scaup, Pt. Isabel 
Sign at Weed Rest Stop. Gulls: ring-billed. Today I saw a man feeding this very gulls, both species quite pleased. 
Mockingbird in Orland. 
Female Brewer’s Blackbird, Tehama County. 
Well no wonder you have not responded to my emails. You have been on the road. I figured you felt pestered by all my questions. m a
By: marieannette@q.com on March 21, 2016
at 6:53 pm