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. Register via Slack to join the Sacramento Valley Young Birders Club on this trip. Please go to www.sacramentoaudubon.org/young-birders-club to become a member.

Join us for a winter hawkwatching endeavor! During the winter, raptor diversity in the Central Valley increases as raptors migrate through and arrive to spend the winter in our dry open spaces. We will be birding by car, stopping along a road in the open grasslands in lower Sacramento county, most likely Meiss road. We will be scanning with scopes and binoculars in the skies, along fence lines and telephone poles for species such as Ferruginous Hawk, Golden Eagle, Sharp-shinned Hawk, Prairie Falcon, and if we’re lucky, a rarer Rough-legged Hawk, in addition to the more common Red-shouldered, Coopers, Red-tailed hawks, and American Kestrel. In addition to raptors, other exclusive grassland birds we may see include Vesper Sparrow, Horned Lark, Loggerhead Shrike, Burrowing Owl, as well as others.

Ferruginous Hawk © Daniel Lee Brown