New Webcam Courtesy of Friends of Sacramento Wildlife Refuge

If you’re not familiar with wildlife and bird webcams, try out Explore.org. Several weeks back, they added a webcam of the Sacramento Wildlife Refuge. https://explore.org/livecams/birds/sacramento-wildlife-refuge-cam

Below the webcam view, the feed details location, weather, and discussion posts. Lots of Greater White-Fronted Geese currently, skeins in the sky at dawn and dusk, and plenty of interesting sounds - starting with stilts, Marsh Wrens, and Black Phoebes.

At busier locations, a CamOp moves and highlights what’s interesting in the area. Need the trumpet of Sandhill Cranes coming through your tech? Sandhills are currently at Explore’s Mississippi River Flyway cam along with various ducks, rafts of Franklin’s Gulls that moved through in the last weeks, occasional highlighted shorebirds, islands of white pelicans that share space with families of Bald Eagles, and its own symphony of habitat sounds. The Mississippi River Flyway will freeze over and become snow-covered over the winter; fascinating to see what flies through the seasons!

For a comparison, check out the Cornell Lab of Ornithology All About Birds webcams, seasonal as well. Currently there is a California Condor near fledge at https://www.allaboutbirds.org/cams/california-condor/.