Date: 5/10/26 1:16 pm From: Will Richardson via groups.io <t.will.richardson...> Subject: Re: [countybirders] [SNMountainBirds] Black-legged Kittiwake, S. Lake Tahoe (El Dorado Co.)
No luck on the kittiwake.
I got there at about 6:15 and searched all around the lake, including three stops at Timber Cove, before calling it day at about 11:45 at Commons Beach in Tahoe City. It was hard enough just to find ANY gulls this time of year and with the lake so high!!
Nice to get out and just bird around a bit though. Picked up lots of atlassing observations for the CA Bird Atlas, and the best was the incredibly small and incredibly cute Sandhill Crane colt at the Upper Truckee Marsh, best seen off San Francisco Ave.
Will Richardson
Truckee, CA
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Executive Director
Tahoe Institute for Natural Science
530.412.2792
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Date: 5/9/26 9:47 pm From: Will Richardson via groups.io <t.will.richardson...> Subject: [countybirders] Black-legged Kittiwake, S. Lake Tahoe (El Dorado Co.)
Jenny Sweatt and Scott Bye found an adult Black-legged Kittiwake on the pier at Timber Cove in South Lake Tahoe today (5/9/26). This is a first Tahoe record, and perhaps El Dorado too? Sorry I couldn’t get the word out sooner, but I just heard about it. I’ll be trying for it in the morning and will post back here if I have luck.
Will Richardson
Truckee, CA
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T. Will Richardson, Ph.D.
Executive Director
Tahoe Institute for Natural Science
530.412.2792
www.tinsweb.org
