Lower Klamath Bus tour of refuge offered - Herald & News: Nation/World News

May 9th 2015 International Migratory Bird Day won’t be celebrated until Saturday, May 9,
but a special tour to the Lower Klamath National Wildlife Refuge will be offered a week earlier.

Bus tour of refuge offered - Herald and News: Nation/World News#.VT5ZwIUrDF8.gmail

photo credits, T. Reynolds, J. House and L. Broderick. 

Wind Energy is dirty.....

http://news.yahoo.com/study-wind-farms-killed-67-eagles-5-years-160226373.html

Golden Eagle sub-adult.

Here, Don has a great shot of the Golden Eagle, this bird has a lot of feather ware and you can see sub-adult feathers coming in. The first year birds have larger wing areas for learning flight, and as the birds get older the feathers shorten up a bit for more controlled and aerodynamic flight.


Golden Eagle, originally uploaded by djbartling.

Don Bartling, GOEA. 2 year old.

WCHW 2013 memo, core values, current agenda

2013. West County Hawk Watch.

Based out of Marin and Sonoma Counties.
 

The group educates the public about current threats that North American Birds of Prey face. We provide Raptor Identification programs. WCHW also works on projects such as the encroachment of wind turbines in prime bird, bat and eagle flyways and territories. Nest site protection. Migration studies and documentation. Children’s Educational book program. We also provide raptor hikes and workshops. Come on out...

*also on the agenda for 2013, bald eagle studies, rough-legged studies, ferruginous studies, WCHW team member education, mentorship and sponsorship programs...

Golden Eagle retaliates on Redtailed Hawk

Golden Eagle retaliates on Redtailed Hawk, originally uploaded by djbartling.

D. Bartling photo

Butte Valley Prong Horn. Dorris Ca. Lower Klamath Basin

The Matranga's 2012. Very nice. Miss you Barb and Bob.

the Pronghorn sometimes show up in Butte Valley while you'll be checking out Eagles and Hawks, suddenly these guys appear and it adds to the show. We have also seen them up along highway 161 and even down along the frontage roads of the SacWR system.

West County Hawk Watch with L.Broderick

Dilute Plumage Bald Eagle Lower Klamath Basin

 Dave and Josh got to see this beauty last Tuesday 2/26/2013.

MBC photo, copyright WCHW 2012.

Tule Lake Bald Eagle 2/25/2013

Bird.

Lower Klamath Basin Wildlife Refuge. Rough-legged Hawks 2013

 

We had a few real good looks at Rough-legged Hawks at the Lower Klamath Basin Wildlife Refuge this week. We saw a half dozen dark morphs.  It was a great trip. Thanks Dave and Josh for coming along.



Broderick_House photo copyright 2013

So anyways really don't shoot to much anymore, but friends always have cameras laying around and its always for to "pop off a couple snaps" as Zach would say. me and Jesse were passing the camera to each other on this day....

Broderick_House photo copyright 2013

Good clean Patagials, strong marked up carpal blocks, dark wing tips, light colored head, eye stripe, dusky sub-terminal, brown body, buff-streaked chest, there is a lot going on here, totally different from any RTHA wing configuration....

What a year for the Rough-legged Hawks. They always show up every winter in the Lower Klamath Basin. We also had a real good year down here in the North Bay Area.
 
Lots of sightings and over-wintering Rough-legged in Sonoma, Marin and Solano. At least that is from our records at WCHW.  Also the list serves have listed the Roughies through-out their traditional over-wintering range in good numbers

Broderick_House photo copyright 2013

Here's the Rough-legged's we were able to capture, damn auto focus kept focusing on the clouds when the epic shot was right in front of you!

Lower Klamath Basin Raptors 2013

Greetings Raptor fans,
We had a couple teams in over the last few days at the Lower Klamath Basin Wildlife Refuge. (post 2013 Winter Wings festival)

This trip was dubbed the "not fresh enough team" in honor of those who decided that.

(internal WCHW memo 2012 WiWi updates)

We wanted to Thank Charlotte Kisling, Jesse & Claire House, David Barry, Sameth Prom and Josh Asel for a great trip and some memorable sightings and stories.....

               Broderick-House photo copyright 2013


Spent 8 hours at: Ashland I-5, Medford Hwy 140, Kamath Falls Hwy 97 and the Lower Klamath Refuge, hit the famous area where the Dilute had been seen, then Tule Lk, to Visitor center, to Lower Klamath road and the FEHA/GOEA hot spots, then to the Lower K. Ref., then out through Straights Drain parcels and out the Township rd and back up the 97, 140, I-5 to Ashland (2/25/2013)

 4 year old Bald Eagle. Tule Lake National Wildlife Refuge 2013.

Broderick-House photo copyright 2013

2/25/2013 Lower Klamath Basin Wildlife Refuge Complex system.

this list is subject to change over the next couple days as data is confirmed...
325+ Balds
14 FEHA  (w 1 dark)
57 RLHA (w 8 dark)
2 SSHA
7 GOEA
63 NOHA (w 13 male) few juv's as cinnamon/pumpkin has/is fading/changing.
121 RTHA  (w 8 dark, 6 inter/rufus & 13 juv)
7 AMKE
1 RSHA
3 PRFA
1 GHOW

Wish you were here....

    PRFA 2-25-2013 north of Malin Oregon. Broderick-House photo copyright 2013


We have more coming, Dave Barry is our ebird coordinator and data/records management guy and he is on his way home today (2/27/2013)

LB.