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Yes, deer
This handsome buck was in front of our neighbors’ home this afternoon. I can be ignored but that shaggy black dog must be watched every second. These two does at North Mountain Park were on f… more →
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Yes, deer
atowhee wrote 2 weeks ago: This handsome buck was in front of our neighbors’ home this afternoon. I can be ignored but … more →
Emigrant Lake and Greensprings Inn
atowhee wrote 3 weeks ago: I got a chance to do some birding with the owner of Greensprings Inn today. He is Diarmuid McGuire … more →
Seeking the Great Gray One
atowhee wrote 2 months ago: No suspense. We did not find the Great Gray Owl we sought along Dead Indian Road. But we did get a … more →
Last of the last days of summer
atowhee wrote 2 months ago: Any image of a Turkey Vulture is rich in portent. Memento mori. In this season the vultures are le … more →
Mount Ashland, the rest of the story
atowhee wrote 2 months ago: Great views even though we couldn’t see Mount Shasta for the low clouds. Jim and Joan Clapp in … more →
Climbing toward 700 US lifers
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atowhee wrote 2 months ago: Not me, I got to help Jim and Joan Clapp add one more to their North American life list. We saw thr … more →
Foxy, and swift
atowhee wrote 3 months ago: There he lurks, the native common gray fox, Urocyon cinereoargentus. He gave me a s … more →
Calliope, handsome fellow
atowhee wrote 3 months ago: Two images of male Calliope Hummingbird in Siskiyou foothills. Taken last May by Len Blumin on a Go … more →
Hot valley= hot mountain birding
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atowhee wrote 3 months ago: It was hot in the flatlands, so young Andy Kleinhesselink and I headed up Mount Ashland early today. … more →
Mr. Calliope?
atowhee wrote 4 months ago: The male Calliope Hummingbirds have flown off, for the rest of this year. And a search on Mount Ash … more →
Tolman Creek morning
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atowhee wrote 4 months ago: Dave MacHamer and I were out looking for Calliope Hummingbirds this morning. We hit Tolman Creek Ro … more →
Birds: high and low
atowhee wrote 4 months ago: High today, around 6500 feet along the Siskiyou Mountains’ ridge from Mount Ashland south and … more →
MC DONALD BASIN, SISKIYOUS
atowhee wrote 4 months ago: My wife and I were guided to a mountain 6200 feet above sea level this morning. One small chunk of … more →
Birding with a pro
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atowhee wrote 5 months ago: I went birding with a pro on Friday, and here are some of the results. I can often find birds, but … more →
Four days in May: great photos from Len Blumin
atowhee wrote 6 months ago: Avid bird photographer, Len Blumin, has been contributing great pics of birds to the Towhee.net gall … more →
Four days in the field and what do we have to show for it?
atowhee wrote 6 months ago: PLENTY. Like this picture of a singing male Green-tailed Towhee in a steep meadow 0n the south slop … more →
Three Days in May
atowhee wrote 6 months ago: A group of birders from the Golden Gate Audubon Society (SF and Oakland) have spent three days birdi … more →
South of town: spring arrivals
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atowhee wrote 7 months ago: A field trip for my OLLI birding students. I think the 8AM start time scared off some of the birder … more →
Frost on the ground, spring all around
atowhee wrote 7 months ago: None of the new spring birds I found along Tolman Creek Road would pose for pictures. And the cold … more →
