Birding in Chico

Our next outing will be to Bidwell River State Park, Indian Fishery, on River Road.

Need a map? Select “Directions to Chico Bird Watching Sites.

Carl

I thought we had a good day at Horseshoe Lake Thursday. Here is list of birds we saw.

American Bittern
Turkey Vulture
Mallard
Northern Pintail
Red-tailed Hawk
American Coot
California Quail
Killdeer
Ring-billed Gull
Mourning Dove
Rock Dove
Acorn Woodpecker
Nuttall’s Woodpecker
Black Phoebe
Western Kingbird
Western Scrub Jay
Yellow-Billed Magpie
Tree Swallow
Cliff Swallow
Western Bluebird
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
European Starling
Yellow Warbler
Savannah Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow
Golden-crowned Sparrow
Red-winged Blackbird
Brewer’s Blackbird
Brown-headed Cowbird
Purple Finch
Lesser Goldfinch
House Finch

Carl

On Thursday April 4th the weather was beautiful for our trip to the Black Butte Lake area. We saw a wide variety of birds including two Osprey chicks in a nest just as we started on Rd. 206. On the trip back there was an adult in the nest shielding the chicks from the sun. We also saw some Lewis’s Woodpeckers, a Turkey, and a couple of Bullock’s Oriole’s.
Here is a complete list:

Clark’s Grebe
American White Pelican
Turkey Vulture
Mallard
Common Merganser
Osprey
Bald Eagle
Northern Harrier
Red-shouldered Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
Wild Turkey
Killdeer
California Quail
Rock Dove
Mourning Dove
Lewis’s Woodpecker
Acorn Woodpecker
Black Phoebe
Western Kingbird
Western Scrub Jay
Yellow-Billed Magpie
American Crow
Tree Swallow
Cliff Swallow
White-breasted Nuthatch
Western Bluebird
American Robin
European Starling
Spotted Towhee
Savannah Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow
Red-winged Blackbird
Western Meadowlark
Brewer’s Blackbird
Bullock’s Oriole
House Finch

Carl