Author: Jim Gain
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Dark-eyed Junco
By Jim Gain Learn 100 Common Valley Birds is a photo blog series highlighting the 100 most common Valley bird species. Post #5 in the Learn 100 Common Valley Birds series. (Species 9/100.) About Juncos The Dark-eyed Junco is a Common Winter Visitor to California’s Central Valley and can be…
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Western Kingbird
By Jim Gain Learn 100 Common Valley Birds is a photo blog series highlighting the 100 most common Valley bird species. Post #4 in the Learn 100 Common Valley Birds series. (Species 8/100.) Western Kingbirds are Common Summer Visitors to California’s Central Valley and are one of the earliest returning…
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Common Valley Owls
Learn 100 Common Valley Birds is a photo blog series highlighting the 100 most common California Central Valley bird species. By Jim Gain Post #3 in the Learn 100 Common Valley Birds series. (Species 5, 6 and 7/100.) Today’s post is another three-fer offering that includes the three owls that…
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Common Valley Hummingbirds
By Jim Gain Learn 100 Common Valley Birds is a photo blog series highlighting the 100 most common Valley bird species. Post #2 in the Learn 100 Common Valley Birds series. (Species 2, 3 and 4/100.) This is a three-fer post featuring the three most common hummingbirds, Anna’s, Black-chinned and…
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California Scrub-Jay
By Jim Gain Learn 100 Common Valley Birds is a photo blog series highlighting the 100 most common Valley bird species. Post #1 in the Learn 100 Common Valley Birds, species 1/100. In California’s Central Valley, almost anyone can learn 100 local bird species. Especially since on a daily basis…
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Rosy-Finch Rendezvous: Stop 10 – Bodie State Park
LAST CALL FOR THE ROSY-FINCH RENDEZVOUS ADVENTURE By Jim GainRosy-Finch Rendezvous Birding Adventure Series 6/15/2022 This would be the last stop of our three-day adventure to the Eastern Sierra Nevada and would prove to have the fewest bird species. However, our main purpose to Bodie was to take photographs of…
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Rosy-Finch Rendezvous: Stop 9 – Cottonwood Canyon
A LITTLE MAC AND GEEZ… By Jim GainRosy-Finch Rendezvous Birding Adventure Series 6/15/2022 This morning’s route was going to take us away from the Sierra Nevada landscape and into the Great Basin and Range geography that dominates much of Nevada and Utah. Today’s target birds were species such as Juniper…
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Rosy-Finch Rendezvous: Stop 8 – Earthquake Fault Trail
The Strange Case of a Solitary Solitaire and a Missing Phone By Jim GainRosy-Finch Rendezvous Birding Adventure Series 6/14/2022 As one strolls through old-growth red fir and Jeffrey pine forest to explore this unique and relatively recent geological feature: a deep fissure in a flow of volcanic rock, in places…
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Rosy-Finch Rendezvous: Stop 6 – Wildrose Canyon
By Jim GainRosy-Finch Rendezvous Birding Adventure Series 6/14/2022 We made a brief stop at Convict Lake to show Rich what a beautiful gem of a lake this was. We headed east towards Lake Crowley and the Glass Mountains along Benton Crossing Rd. with beautiful expanses of sage. Knowing that Greater…
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Rosy-Finch Rendezvous: Stop 5 – Sierra Lodge at Mammoth Lakes
By Jim GainRosy-Finch Rendezvous Birding Adventure Series 6/14/2022 While I was waiting for Rich to fill up the ice chest, I wandered outside of our parking garage to take a photo of our hotel, the Sierra Lodge, with the magnificent backdrop of the Sierra Nevada. I crossed the street to…
Reflections of the Natural World 