Re: [MDOsprey] California Birding
KurtCapt87@aol.com
Mon, 28 Jun 1999 19:46:16 EDT
Scott,
On the road to Mono look for the town of Toms Place, a Caliope Hummer often
frequents a feeder outside a mobile home/trailer across the street from the
general store.
Go off road on the west side before Mammoth Lake to an area that is the
basically the discharge of the Mammoth Lake sewage treatment plant. Look for
any water fowl hanging around (great for Phalaropes the beginning of June,
maybe the end of June?). The surrounding scrub has alot of Brewers Sp and
Green-tailed Towhees.
Occasionally this valley gets Swainsons Hawk.
South of Mono lake and east of the road is a big grove of Pondorosa Pines
that has many Pinyon Jays. Rock and Canyon Wrens are about. Mono Lake is
the breeding area of gulls, Californias I think.
Outside of Bishop, to the east, a road climbs to the 9000+ foot level to a
small town and reservoir where it dead ends. An old couple up there has many
bird feeders and is the most reliable spot in the US to get Gray-crowned
Rosy-finches in spring. (They eat our of your hand.) I don't know if summer
will be good, but give it a shot just to get the Red-breasted Sapsucker.
There house is in a cul-de-sac on the right, the area is not to big to search.
Later,
Kurt Gaskill