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From: porterg@csusac.csus.edu (Greg Porter)
Newsgroups: rec.birds
Subject: No. Calif. Trip Report and Nemesis Bird Question
Message-ID: <1991Mar18.224123.1338@csusac.csus.edu>
Date: 18 Mar 91 22:41:23 GMT
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Organization: California State University, Sacramento
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Last Saturday (March 16), we went to the Colusa National Wildlife Refuge
which is about an hour north of Sacramento, CA on Hwy. 99.  The weather was
cloudy and cool.  We saw a total of 39 spieces.  Here are a few highlights:

GREATER YELLOWLEGS
BLACK-NECKED STILT
WHITE-FACED IBIS (ABOUT 15 OF THEM FEEDING WITH SOME EGRETS)
AMERICAN BITTERN
GREAT EGRET 
SNOWY EGRET 
GREAT BLUE HERON
MALLARD
NORTHERN PINTAIL
AMERICAN WIGEON 
RING-NECKED DUCK
NORTHERN SHOVELER
GOLDEN-CROWNED SPARROW
WHITE-CROWNED SPARROW
SONG SPARROW
MARSH WREN
VIOLET-GREEN SWALLOW
RED-TAILED HAWK
BLACK-SHOULDERED KITE
RED-WINGED BLACKBIRD
BREWERS BLACKBIRD
+ OTHER COMMON YEAR-ROUND SPIECIES LIKE: HOUSE FINCH, HOUSE SPARROW ETC.

Now the question:

A while back there was talk about everyone's Nemesis bird...well I have two,   
the Yellow-headed Blackbird and the Tri-colored Backbird.  The Tri-colored I 
have seen once and only once and I have never seen a Yellow-headed.  Does any
one in the Northern/Central/Bay Area of California know of any place where
either of these frequent on a regular basis?  I am beginning to think that 
someone put the Yellow-headed Blackbird in the guide as a cruel hoax! :-)

Thanks for the help

Greg 
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