29 April 06

Birdathon

Today Numenius and I did a birdathon by bicycle to raise funds for Yolo Audubon Society. We went in different directions: he headed south to do the breeding bird atlas survey I birded along Putah Creek with a friend and colleague on the Audubon Board, headed into west Davis, down to the Arboretum, east to the Yolo Bypass, south to the Yolo Grasslands and Tremont Street Cemetery, and finally home.

We tallied 80 species between us by bicycle, great considering the day started out gray and a bit cold and ended up hot and windy and the flooding is still extensive. Not quite the total someone like Richard might have put together on a day like this, but respectable.

If you’d like to make a contribution of any size—a total amount or an amount per bird—you can mail it to

Yolo Audubon Society (Birdathon)
P.O. Box 886
Davis, CA 95617

Posted by at 10:01 PM in Nature and Place | Link |
  1. Joe: “Highlights?”
    — Ron Sullivan    30. April 2006, 09:18    Link
  2. Congrats! I managed 95 species in the south of France over 24 hours last weekend (thanks to Andrew’s tolerance driving me around – birthdays offer a good excuse to push one’s luck!), which Kevin has added to the composite total for the Yolo Audubon birdathon. Any surprises on the route?
    — rjhall    30. April 2006, 10:42    Link
  3. Highlights: Western tanager and black-headed grosbeak in the same binocular view. Blue grosbeak right in front of us, eye-level. Moorhen in the mucky pond, now not so mucky because of all the rain, on west campus. A late hermit thrush.

    Richard: excellent. Kev said last night you’d aded a bunch to the composite total, thanks!
    — Pica    30. April 2006, 13:56    Link
  4. Yow. Also yow about the Camargue birds. I’m doing a lot of envying this week.

    We had a late hermit and an early Swainson’s Thursday, in about the same place at different times. Caused much rigorous examination of our consciencies, but all of us had got good looks at both birds at various angles and lighting, and were jointly and severally sure of the tail and eye-ring fieldmarks.
    — Ron Sullivan    1. May 2006, 09:41    Link

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