Hello all, Two days ago John Muegge found and photographed a Black-billed Magpie that was accompanied by a Yellow-billed Magpie in the Nur Pon Recreation Area along the Sacramento River in Redding. The bird was seen again in that area and well photographed yesterday. Black-billed Magpies are regular in our basin country in the Fall River Valley 75 miles east of Redding. They are regularly seen on the Fall River Mills CBC and are most often seen at Fall River Lake in Fall River Mills. Yellow-billed Magpies are regular at low elevation sites in the Redding and Anderson area. Of possible interest is that we saw a Yellow-billed Magpie on the Fall River Mills CBC on December 16, 1989. Both of these species have now been seen in their opposite elevation and habitat in our county with no records that we are aware of between these elevations. Neither species is known to wander in elevation or range to any degree at all, are they Bob Yutzy From Bob & Carol Yutzy Redding, Ca |
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