Category: Rosy-Finch Rendezvous
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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…
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Rosy-Finch Rendezvous: Stops 4 and 7 – Inyo Craters
By Jim GainRosy-Finch Rendezvous Birding Adventure Series 6/13/2022 & 6/14/2022 Rich and I made two stops here, Stop #4 on Monday afternoon and Stop #7 on Tuesday afternoon. The Inyo Craters are three north-south-aligned phreatic (steam) explosion craters on the summit and south flank of Deer Mountain. Six hundred years…
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Rosy-Finch Rendezvous: Stop 3 – Mono Lake County Park
By Jim GainRosy-Finch Rendezvous Birding Adventure Series 6/13/2022 The chorus of wrens and vireos hit us as soon as we stepped out of the car. From every clump of cottonwoods along the creek that winds through the park, came the sounds of House Wrens and Warbling Vireos that competed for…
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Rosy-Finch Rendezvous: Stop 2 – Virginia Lakes Resort
By Jim GainRosy-Finch Rendezvous Birding Adventure Series 6/13/2022 At a 10,000′ elevation, with a cool temperature of 38 degrees, 32 % humidity and brisk winds at 18-20 mph, the relative temperature of around 20 degrees made this stop a challenge. The folks that manage Virginia Lakes Resort are pretty good…
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Rosy-Finch Rendezvous: Stop 1 – Donnell Overlook
6/13/2022 By Jim GainRosy-Finch Rendezvous Birding Adventure Series After a gourmet breakfast stop for breakfast sandwiches and Starbucks coffee, we arrived at the Donnell Vista overlook eagerly looking for a couple of our Montane target birds. We had lofty goals of finding Sooty Grouse, Mountain Quail, Hermit Warbler and Evening…
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