The Elusive Sage Sparrow
January 1st - February 28th
This workshop offered is my absolute favorite of any offered. With a narrow time window that these elusive Sagebrush and Bell’s Sparrow visit this select side of California, this is an awesome location to capture these peculiar birds. They are known for their interesting habit that while being a sparrow, run frantically with their tails flipped up and incredible speeds for their tiny stature. The location is a remote hills with views over the whole Central Valley of California, and on a clear morning, you can see straight across the whole valley all the way to the Sierra Nevada mountain range 75 miles away. This remoteness gives the location an “Excursion” rating. We will be using an intense “Hybrid” technique of movement and camouflage to approach these species and capture them well. Crawling in prone will be required and combined with hiking hill after hill this is one of the most physically demanding workshops I offer. This workshop receives a “4” on the challenge scale due to the difficulty of capturing them but more so due to the difficulty in finding them amongst the widespread hills them roam.
