Date: 10/19/25 7:03 pm From: Glennah Trochet via groups.io <trochetj...> Subject: [centralvalleybirds] highlights from today's Tall Forest bird survey
Dear Birders,
With the assistance of Chris Conard, this morning I led the October 2025 iteration of the Tall Forest bird survey at the Cosumnes River Preserve in southern Sacramento County. I was pleased to have with me some of the Sacramento Audubon young birders group. It's encouraging to see young people with talent and enthusiasm for birding. Not wanting to kill their enthusiasm by keeping them out all hours, I let them out at the gate just after noon and finished the route alone. I am sorry that we didn't run into some of the things I found late when the group was entire.
First and foremost among the late finds was a female-plumaged common poorwill, my first behind the Farm Center gate in many, many years.
None of the fields behind the gate has any water yet, so shorebird and waterfowl diversity was poor. But I think the day was otherwise quite good. Finds of modest to moderate interest included these: acorn woodpecker- 6 red-breasted sapsucker- 1 yellow-billed magpie- 28 golden-crowned kinglet- 10 lark sparrow- 1 orange-crowned warbler- 18 black-throated gray warbler- 1 Townsend's warbler- 12 western tanager- 1
There was a nice mix of butterflies, too, with a great purple hairstreak leading the way among the leps.
I last posted with mention of an intergeneric jay hybrid from Texas. Steve Hampton, former Yolo County birder extraordinaire now living in Washington state, sent me notice of another intergeneric jay hybrid from the Pacific Northwest. As I did, you, too, may find this of interest: https://ebird.org/species/x00964
