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Battle Creek Wildlife Area

By on April 1, 2023 in
California Thrasher

California Thrasher

Battle Creek Wildlife Area is a CDFW fee area which can certainly handle and thrive with this winter’s wet season and provide us with great birding opportunities. Please join us at Wildlife area’s parking lot located at: 23999 Coleman Fish Hatchery Rd, Anderson, CA

These 582 acres of riparian forests, marshes, and oak woodland supports a diverse variety of migratory and resident bird species, as well as aquatic and terrestrial mammals. Bald eagles and ospreys nest here in spring.

We will explore the two primary trails, Oaktree and Coleman Hatchery, for a 2.6-mile hike for the best viewing of the area.

Please contact Dan Bye, by text/cell 530 228 9373 or email danbye56@gmail.com for more information.

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McArthur-Burney Falls State Park Outing

By on April 29, 2022 in

Burney Falls

Join us on a day journey to Burney Falls State Park. We will have opportunities to see Osprey, Bald Eagles, Steller’s Jays, Turkey Vultures, Robins, Crows, Hawks, the Park’s unique annual resident Black Swifts who flit in and around the falls themselves, and possible Pacific Wrens. The falls are full and beautiful in the spring! The walk will last for a couple of hours. Bring a lunch and enjoy the park after the walk as we make our way to Lake Britton. Meet Wintu guides at the Kutras Lake Parking Area in Redding at 7:30 a.m., or meet at the Burney Safeway parking lot in Burney at 8:45 a.m. For more information contact Larry Jordan at 530-949-5266. Park day use fee $10 per vehicle in cash.

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Birding Manzanita Lake

By on April 29, 2022 in

White-headed Woodpecker Male

We will bird the 2 mile Manzanita Lake loop trail looking for mountain birds and early warblers. Likely suspects are Bald Eagle, American Dipper, Clark’s Nutcracker, Bufflehead, White-headed Woodpecker, Brown Creeper and Mountain Chickadee. Meet at the Loomis Museum parking lot at 8:00am. Wear layers of clothes as it will most likely be pretty cool in the morning. Entrance fees are required. If you don’t have a pass I suggest you arrange ahead of time to ride with someone that has a Golden Age pass.

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Battle Creek Wildlife Area

By on April 29, 2022 in

Bald Eagle

Join us for a walk on the Salmon Trail along Battle Creek, through marshes and oak woodland to look for nesting Bald Eagles, Osprey and Wood Ducks.  Warblers and flycatchers would be a real treat as well. Meet at 8:00 at the Battle Creek Wildlife Area parking lot located at 23999 Coleman Fish Hatchery Road in Anderson, California.  We will spend two to three hours walking about two miles on a dirt path from the wildlife area to the fish hatchery.  Vehicles will be placed at both ends of the trail and we will carpool back and forth.  There is a port-a-potty at the wildlife area and bathrooms at Coleman Fish Hatchery.

Please note: A visit to the area requires the purchase of a CDFW Lands Pass.  Visitors who are in possession of a valid California hunting or fishing license in their name are exempt from this requirement. Lands passes may be purchased online, by phone at (800) 565-1458, or in-person at locations wherever hunting and fishing licenses are sold. Contact trip leader Tricia Ford at triciathebirdnerd@gmail.com for more information.

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