Thought I would share a few birds from Silver Lake In El Dorado County with you. The first day all I did was watch the Stellar Jays and American Robins from the cabin porch as coming from sea level to 7,200 feet took the wind out of me. The first evening I was happy to see about 20 Common Mergansers on the lake along with lots of Canada Geese. A walk now and then turned up white-breasted nuthatches, a brown creeper, Williamsons' sapsuckers, northern flickers, dark-eyed juncos, white-crowned sparrows, American crows, hermit thrush, hairy woodpeckers, mountain chickadees, song sparrows, red-winged and Brewer's blackbirds, barn swallows, western tanagers, Nashville warblers, spotted sandpipers, black-headed grosbeaks and a Cassin's finch. On my last night I walked down to the boat dock and was rewarded with a beautiful sunset and two Osprey flying low over the water!! The wildflowers are in bloom and the butterflies are all over the place taking advantage of the nectar. A very rewarding week with no TV and cell phones do not work due to the granite bowl Silver Lake sits in.

jeana: on the 7th I could not see the owls and was ready to give up------on the 8th I checked again and there are at least two in the box in the large barn= so she did double clutch

Shirley: I saw a "first generation" young adult on the Sunday morning tour...hanging out in the rafters. But did not see any action in the box. Jeana

Hi all,
It seems those cheap drug pushing scum bags have found our site. (pardon my language but I REALLY HATE those guys!)...
Thanks to Shirley's quick action in alerting me, I deleted them. Unfortunately, they will probably be back. If you happen across any of these ads posted to our site, either contact Shirley so she can get hold of me, or send me an e-mail directly. My address is on the back page of the latest Slough News. I don't want to publish my address here because the only thing I hate more than SPAM is more SPAM!
Back to all things Slough-y.

Carry On!
Kim

I guess I'm lucky - Cruzio filtered them out and I haven't gotten any. they are really good about that. Jeana

Jeana: on Friday the plant ladies watched the two young barn owls fly out of the barn from the rafters--guess that means they have fledged

shirley

HURRAH! Thanks Shirley and Plant Ladies for this update. So happy that two owlets made it. And we are sure of minimum one from the crotch nest behind rookery. So they will be able to date and mate locally. Will be interesting to see what ensues. Jeana

For those of you who still receive this message board: the memorial tree is finished and on its way to the reserve. Anticipated time of arrival is late this week or next week. Then the installation will have to be scheduled.......

shirley

Wow! thanks for the update. ..Do we know where it will be placed? Jeana

Shirley you have done a great job in spearheading this
project..congratulations! JDLT

If you do not receive the MBB postings every day then here is an update for today ( the 6th)=====at Natural Bridges the warblers are EVERYWHERE--today in additon to Wilsons & Townseds we saw a Canada Warbler & and Hooded Warbler in addition to all the regular birds------------CHECK IT OUT

could not resist the temptation to visit Zmudowski beach to see if I could find the Bobolink-----------YES there were also WCSP and MAWR plus lots of other day to day birds.
At Jetty Road there was a Clark's Grebe with all the expected birds; high tide sort of put a damper on this spot.
also visited Moon Glow Dairy; was excited to see 6 shovelers and all the usual
birds; although I did not find the Solitary or Baird's sandpipers--