California Birding! Can We Find Clark's Grebe and Canyon Wren at Millerton Lake SRA?
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- Опубліковано 1 жов 2024
- We visit Millerton Lake State Recreation Area with our friend and professional bird guide Rachel Clark, to see if we can find two of our target birds during our California trip: the Clark's Grebe and the Canyon Wren. The Lake was created by the construction of a dam, and the area is home to a variety of interesting animals.
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WOAH ! Nice find guys, I do find my self in love with the wrens. They are jumpy lil guys though I am glad yall held out for them.
Are all wrens sassy?? I've got maybe three Carolina Wrens now and they straight up sit on the feeder and yell at me if it's empty, haha! Seems like they are very big personalities packed into very small bodies!
Desert watering holes and such are always really sharp in that transition, it's pretty cool. I can still remember the occasional "quick spring" effect out in the western part of Texas - it'd happen in early spring by the calendar but, what you'd get is a short string of warm days in between frosts in like, February, and in those warm days if you got a brief thunderstorm (which we often did), you'd see the most incredible explosion of green, for maybe 48 hours, in just a few places where the water puddled up rather than draining into the sand and gravel right away. The plants would do it all again in REAL spring of course but some desert plants seem to just leap up at any little chance, flowering and going to seed in just hours. And the bugs that might be around go bonkers too, and then the lizards and birds get a very brief buffet, haha!
You know, I feel like every wren I’ve ever seen is sassy
It's interesting to see what birds you really yearn to see based on where you're from. I spent most of my life in Southern California and have probably seen canyon wrens a few times in my life (though don't remember any), but one bird I really want to see sometime is the American woodcock, which of course is fairly common in Wisconsin.
And of course vagrants are always cool; a few years ago I drove about two hours from my former home in San Diego to the Salton Sea to see a Eurasian duck called the garganey (it was kinda hard to pick out among the other ducks there at the time, but I think I saw it).
@@andyjay729 yeah it’s interesting! Just had 2 American Woodcocks this morning!
I love the kestrel head bob in the intro. Another great birding adventure, thanks for sharing!
ANOTHER AWESOME VIDEO GUYS!
(Ryan, you can't get flagged for your WI farmer's tan.🙂)
Fun to see you hunting for birds out West! Love a good Canyon Wren shot. Great video!
Good stuff!
3:02 There's like at least 2 clarkies in here
Probably! We just wanted to make sure we could confidently find one for our lifer looks
@@BadgerlandBirding Fair. I feel like ur guide shoulda been able to pick that out tho...
Nice Birds! Ryan I emailed you about a tour, it was so fun last time!
Lovely trip and video! :D
camped hundreds of times there
Love the post!
Is the Clarks Grebe up for a name change?
Seems like it. There is a growing movement of people opposed to the name changes but I’m not sure if it will amount to any decision reversals.
Those were great birds to see.