Field Trip Leader: Mackenzie Hollender, sacaudubonyoungbirders@gmail.com

Supervisor: Kevin Hollender

This is a Young Birders Club field trip. Participation is limited to members of the Sacramento Valley Young Birders Club. Registration is through the Young Birders Club Slack. Please go to www.sacramentoaudubon.org/young-birders-club to become a member.

Join us for a morning of birding in western Yolo county at a lesser known site filled with many different types of habitats: marshes, open oak woodland, riparian woodland and riverside scrub. At the marsh, we will be keeping eyes and ears out for Sora, Pied-billed Grebe, Belted Kingfisher, Wood Duck, Wilson’s Snipe, and other marsh dwelling birds. In the adjacent open oak and riparian woods, we hope to see the last of the year’s migrating warblers, flycatchers, tanagers and grosbeaks, as well as some early returning wintering sparrows and juncos. Downy and Nuttall’s Woodpeckers will inhabit the towering cottonwoods, and we hope to see Blue-gray Gnatcatchers and even a California Thrasher. In the riverside scrub, Spotted Sandpipers, California Quail, California Towhee, and Common Mergansers are all possibilities. There will be restrooms. We recommend packing snacks, water, a hat, and applying sunscreen if necessary.

Directions and confirmation of exact meeting location and time will be provided upon registration. 

Belted Kingfisher, Image by Daniel Lee Brown