The Spring RROS camping trip will be held the weekend of June 9 through June 12. Notice these are different dates than were previously announced. Gene Hunn will lead us birding in the vicinity of the Tahoe National Forest. Our base will be the Cottonwood Creek Campground. There is a fine diversity of birds right in the camp, where we can bird each morning. Also, potential for Flammulated Owl, Common Nighthawk, and Common Poorwill at night. Woodpeckers and Empidonax flycatchers. Maybe Northern Goshawk, maybe Sooty Grouse.

You may reserve a campsite at https://www.recreation.gov/camping/campgrounds/232871. If you think you might attend, you should probably reserve a campsite sooner rather than later. We will be arriving on Thursday, June 9, and departing on Sunday, June 12. Reservations cost $68 for the weekend. If you cancel, you’ll get $50 back. For those who choose not to camp, there are rooms available in Truckee and Calpine, which are near enough to join us at the campground (or perhaps another location) for our daily birding.

We will explore Sierra Valley habitats, including marshes (Sandhill Crane, White-faced Ibis, American Bittern, Sora, nesting Willets and Wilson’s Phalaropes, etc.), sage steppe (Sage Thrashers, Brewer’s Sparrows, Horned Larks, Swainson’s Hawks…), and nearby canyons.

One day we may bird at Yuba Pass (6300 ft.) for montane species, dropping down the west to Bassett’s (ice cream and hummingbirds) and the Sardine Lakes.

To RSVP or more information, contact Malcolm Blanchard at (707) 480-2210 (text and voice) or at mab@mabco.com.