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    Mono Lake & Sierra Nevada - May 2017

    I have just added a trip report to www.cloudbirders.com covering my 10 day trip to central California in May 2017. It's quite long, with an annotated checklist and various bits and pieces on the sites I visited, so I hope it will be useful for anyone planning a May visit to this wonderful state...
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    Mono Lake & Sierra Nevada - May 2017

    I have just returned from my 10 day trip to central California, and thought it might be useful to anyone visiting the area in the near future to hear about a few sites where I saw key species. I will put full lists on eBird soon, but realistically not in the next couple of weeks, and will...
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    Mono Lake & Sierra Nevada - May 2017

    One last thing - are there phone numbers to report county/state rarities so that they go on to the List Servers? I won't have email access on my trip, except perhaps in the evening, and it would be a shame if I stumbled across something special and couldn't let anyone know. An hour searching...
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    Mono Lake & Sierra Nevada - May 2017

    After a couple of months more planning - and reports of a lot of terrible weather in California - I am sure that my plan to cross from Mono Lake to Yosemite via Tioga Pass in late May isn't going to happen. Correlating snow levels at Mammoth and the Tioga Pass opening times for the last 30...
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    Mono Lake & Sierra Nevada - May 2017

    My current planned itinerary for mid May 2017 is: Day 1: leave LAX at dawn, Santa Clara River Mouth, Santa Cruz Island (Island Scrub Jay) Day 2: Ventura, Cerro Noroeste/Bitter Creek NWR (Condor), Maricopa (Le Conte's Thrasher) Day 3: Mount Pinos (Mountain Quail etc), Kern Valley (Lawrence's...
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    Mono Lake & Sierra Nevada - May 2017

    Thankyou JWReeves and James. I know all to well how hit and miss Le Conte's Thrasher is, having spent 10 hours searching for them in the washes of Joshua Tree in 2014 with no luck, only to find subsequent eBird reports from exactly where I was looking. I've got Maricopa as my 3rd evening on...
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    Mono Lake & Sierra Nevada - May 2017

    Thankyou James and Mike. It's encouraging to read that Sage Grouse should be somewhere around the lek in May, albeit probably hiding. Mammoth sounds like a good option for some of my targets, so I'll look up Mosquito Flats, and I read that Bears are sometimes seen in town there. I did wonder...
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    Mono Lake & Sierra Nevada - May 2017

    I'm planning a birding trip to Central CA in May 2017 and have done a lot of e-bird searching, site guide reading etc. I have a couple of questions that I hope a local might be able to help with: 1) my plan is to cross from Lee Vining/Mono Lake into Yosemite via Tioga Pass, but I'll be there on...
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