Dog Island - May 17, 1998 - Ten Auduboners and friends explored Dog Island and other Red Bluff hot spots. We were rewarded with 64 species for the day. We were greeted at Dog Island by 5 Red Bluffians and singing Black-headed Grosbeaks, Ash-throated Flycatchers and Cedar Waxwings. Our walk around the Island added Wood Duck, Red-tailed Hawk, Red-shouldered Hawk, White-breasted Nuthatch, Acorn Woodpecker, Nuttall's Woodpecker, Tree Swallow, Cliff Swallow, Yellow Warbler, Brown-headed Cowbird, Spotted Towhee, California Towhee, Northern Oriole, Bewick's Wren, Warbling Vireo, and Western Tanager.

Our next stop was the riparian area near the Diversion Dam. En route we saw Yellow-billed Magpie and Western Kingbird. This area provided us with Anna's Hummingbird, Osprey, American White Pelicans, House Wren, Downy and Lewis's Woodpeckers, Townsend's Warbler, Macgillivray's Warbler, Nashville Warbler, Wilson's Warbler and Lazuli Bunting, as well as an overflight of Swainson's Hawks.

Our final Stop was Cone Grove Park. We saw Lesser and American Goldfinches here as well as Olive-sided Flycatcher. When only two of us remained we came across a flock of 250 Tricolored Blackbirds on Foothill Road just after we turned off Cone Grove Road. - Richard Redmond