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From: grp@Unify.com (Greg Pasquariello)
Newsgroups: rec.birds
Subject: Re: No. Calif. Trip Report and Nemesis Bird Question
Message-ID: <1991Mar19.102857@Unify.com>
Date: 19 Mar 91 18:28:57 GMT
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In article <1991Mar18.224123.1338@csusac.csus.edu>, porterg@csusac.csus.edu
(Greg Porter) writes:
> 
> 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! :-)

I've seen the tri-colored in spring off White Rock Road (near Folsom).  
There is a road to a boys camp there (I forget the name, but it's got
a sign to the boys camp) on which you head south for about two miles.
You will come to an open grove of oaks which always has Lewis' Woodpeckers.
Just beyond, the road dips and comes to a moist area.  The tri-coloreds
have been there.  I saw them at three scattered times during the spring
last year.  Haven't been there yet this year.

I've seen the yellow headed at the Sac refuges!  Not every time though,
and I don't know how regular they are. I've also seen them in the marshes 
in (or near) the Sierra Valley, at the north end of Rt 49.

If you ever want to go birding, give me a call!  928-6258 (work)
and 333-2733 (home).  I live in Georgetown (near Coloma) but work
in Sac.

> 
> Thanks for the help
> 
> Greg 
> -- 
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