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Thread #87684   Message #1814256
Posted By: Slag
20-Aug-06 - 02:45 AM
Thread Name: BS: Birdwatching Challenge
Subject: RE: BS: Birdwatching Challenge
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Mourning Dove
Goatsucker (Poorwill)
Osprey

That's 19

I'm located a couple of miles from Clearlake (the lake, not the city) so I kinda have a big advantage. But I will never see a Cardinal or an Indigo Bunting. Outside my slider (faces south) are the Mayacamas mountains which stretch from the Geysers near Cloverdale up to Wilits. Cow Mountain is due west a few miles. It is a low but very rugged coastal range which follows the fault by the same name. On the other side is the Russian River and the County seat of Medocino Co., Ukiah. Deer are all over the place as are turkeys and a few peacocks that travel with them. Ocassionally we see Mountain Lions, wild pig, bear, river otters, bobcat, lots of racooons, opposum, grey squirrel, I am very fortunate to get to live here.