Bird-watchers scope spring increase in avian activity
By Dylan Silver
Tahoe Daily Tribune May 20, 2012 
Phot Credit: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
“You need to know your songs as well as know what they look like because half the time you'll hear them before you see them,” Ferguson said, during a recent bird-watchers outing in the Upper Truckee Marsh. In the spring, many of the area's migratory bird species will arrive from their winter homes. With the increase in activity, bird-watchers are out and about, peering through their binoculars, trying to one-up one another with rare sightings. Read the story. |
