DON WILKINSON BIRDING TOURS:

Snowy Owl

WINTER IN NEW ENGLAND, December 30, 2010 - January 3, 2011 This 5 day trip will visit all the winter hot spots in Massachusetts, including Cape Cod and Provincetown, Plum Island, and Cape Ann. We will bird nearby states depending on reports. Target birds will include Dovekie, King Eider, Barrow's Goldeneye, Snowy Owl, Purple Sandpiper, Harlequin Duck, Thick-billed Murre, Black Guillemot, Eurasian Wigeon, Lapland Longspur, Thayer's Gull, Black-headed Gull, Iceland Gull, Glaucous Gull, Snow Bunting, "Ipswich" Savannah Sparrow and many others. There will be lots of reports due to the Christmas Bird Count and the New Year. There is often a winter rarity around (A Slaty-backed Gull was around in 2009 and two Ivory gulls visited us in 2010!). As an added bonus, we have the option of attending Boston's famous First Night New Year's Eve celebration!

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Spotted Owl

SOUTHEAST ARIZONA, June 8-13, 2011, with Guest Co-leader, Dylan Radin This 6 day intensive trip will focus on the many difficult and special birds of Southeast AZ including, Buff-collared Nightjar, Flammulated Owl, Black-capped Gnatcatcher, Rufous-capped Warbler, Five-striped Sparrow, Northern Pygmy, Spotted, and Elf Owls as well as many other specialty birds. We will also go after any rarities in the area.

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Island Scrub Jay by Ian Davies

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, July 6-11, 2011 Our principle birding locations for this 5 night, 5 day trip will be Santa Cruz Island for the Island Scrub Jay and Allen's Hummingbird (which may be split), the San Gabriel Mountains for Mountain Quail, Lawrence's Goldfinch and other high-elevation specialties, the California coast for California Gnat-catcher and shorebirds and the Salton Sea for Yellow-footed Gull and Fulvous Whistling Duck. Of course, we will be making other major stops, but the previous are the main birding locations. We will also look for White-headed Woodpecker, Nuttall's Woodpecker, Williamson's Sapsucker, MacGillivray's Warbler, Calliope Hummingbird, Gray Vireo, Scott's oriole, Black-chinned Sparrow, Black-tailed Gnatcatcher, Clark's Grebe, Burrowing Owl, Lesser Nighthawk and many others.

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Black-footed Albatross by Donald Wilkinson

CALIFORNIA PELAGICS, BIG SUR AND YOSEMITE, September 2011 SEPTEMBER 6th to SEPTEMBER 13th, 2011. This 8 day California trip will feature 2 Pelagic trips out of Monterey Bay with the famous Debra Shearwater Journeys, plus birding in Moss Landing, Carmel, Pt. Lobos, Big Sur, Andrew Molera State Park, Los Banos Wildlife Refuge, and the GREAT YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK. We will look for all the western specialties.

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TRIP LISTS from previous years