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| Southern Sierra Trip |
Trip Leaders: John Schmitt and Bob Barnes
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Fri-Mon, June 26-29, 2015
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| The birding locations will be selected according to current birding conditions and the wishes of the participants. |
| This is a trip designed for active people who want to see and hear A LOT of birds in varied habitats, who are willing to get up early to take in the “Dawn Chorus” (one of the trip highlights) and who will enjoy being out in the field most of the day birding. It will involve a fair amount of walking and is not a leisure trip. Trip size is limited to 12 people. |
| A WIDE VARIETY OF HABITATS will be covered: chaparral, cliffs & rocky hillsides, deciduous & live oak woodland, fir forest, Fremont cottonwood & red willow riparian forest, grasslands & pastures, Joshua tree woodland, mixed conifer forest, Mojave desert scrub, mountain meadows, pinyon/juniper woodland, pond & marsh, reservoir (Lake Isabella), residential. |
| ELEVATION RANGE: 2500' (community of Lake Isabella) to 9400' (Bald Mountain) |
| POSSIBLE BIRD SPECIES: Mountain Quail, Sooty Grouse, Western Grebe, Clark's Grebe, American White-Pelican, Golden Eagle, Northern Goshawk, White-winged Dove, Yellow-billed Cuckoo, Greater Roadrunner, nine owl species including Flammulated Owl, Western Screech-Owl, Northern Pygmy Owl, Spotted Owl, & Northern Saw-whet Owl, Lesser Nighthawk, Common Nighthawk, Common Poorwill, Black Swift, Costa's Hummingbird, Calliope Hummingbird, ten woodpecker species including Pileated Woodpecker, seventeen flycatcher species including Vermilion Flycatcher & Brown-crested Flycatcher, six vireo species including Plumbeous Vireo & Red-eyed Vireo, six corvid species including Pinyon Jay & Clark's Nutcracker, Verdin, six wren species including Pacific Wren, American Dipper, five thrush species including Mountain Bluebird & Townsend's Solitaire, Le Conte's Thrasher, ten warbler species including Hermit Warbler, eighteen sparrow species including Green-tailed Towhee, Rufous-crowned Sparrow, Black-chinned Sparrow, Vesper Sparrow, & "Thick-billed" Fox Sparrow, Summer Tanager, Indigo Bunting, ten blackbird & oriole species including Tricolored Blackbird & Scott's Oriole, eight finch species including Cassin's Finch, Red Crossbill, Lawrence's Goldfinch, & Evening Grosbeak. Except for American White-Pelican, all species have nested in the Kern River Valley/Southern Sierra Nevada area. |
| The preceding list represents those bird species which have been seen during some to several past late June field trips. We will visit the habitats where each has been found. Several birds on the list will no doubt be seen during this trip, too. Several will likely be missed as well. Regardless, the best set of expectations to have when participating in this trip is to enjoy birding a diverse and bird-rich nesting season region of California. BOTTOM LINE: We will see what we will see. Every one of the species on the preceding list we see will be frosting added on the cake. Of course, the area has not escaped introduced species which means there is a "decent chance" of seeing Chukar, Wild Turkey, Eurasian Collared-Dove, European Starling, & House Sparrow! |
| BASIC ITINERARY: Thursday, 6/25/15 - Night: Kern River Valley Friday, 6/26/15 - Sierra Nevada East Side Birding (with Bob Barnes, leader) Night: Kern River Valley. Saturday, 6/27/15 - Kern River Valley & Southern Sierra Birding (with Bob Barnes, leader) Night: Kern River Valley. Sunday, 6/28/15 - Kern River Valley & Southern Sierra Birding (with John Schmitt, leader) Night: Kern River Valley. Monday, 6/29/15 - Greenhorn Mountains Transect Birding (with John Schmitt, leader) including early morning owling and c. 2pm trip conclusion. (Exact destinations each day will depend on where the most favorable birding conditions are at the time.) |
| MOTEL INFO: Bob Barnes has reserved the entire 8 room/10 bed (six rooms with single beds, two rooms with two beds) at Lakeview Motel - <http://www.lakeview-motel.com/> for Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday nights, June 26th, 27th, 28th, and 29th. Since those dates are during tourist season, reservations should be made ASAP before owners Bob or Linnae Jamison call Bob Barnes back telling him others are interested in renting rooms for one or more of those nights. |
| Advance reservations are needed; trip size is limited to 12 people. Trip fee is $18 per day or $72 for the 4-day trip. Make check payable to Sea & Sage Audubon and mail it to: Southern Sierra Trip, c/o Nancy Kenyon, 32 Almond Tree Ln, Irvine CA 92612-2230. Meeting time, additional trip information, & directions to the meeting place will be provided to those with reservations. |
| Please include the following information when you send in your reservation for this trip: |
Your phone number |
| Additional Information: Trip details including motel list will be sent to you via email |
Bird list (from multi-trips) |
| John Schmitt, Leader |
| Reservations: Nancy Kenyon; 949-786-3160; nancykenyon@cox.net |
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