Birding Guide & Trip Planning Service - Kern River Valley Birding, Southern Sierra Nevada, California

Birding Guide for Audubon Chapters, festivals, groups, and individuals.
Birding Guide for California, nearly California, and other restricted range specialty species including Mountain Quail, White-headed Woodpecker, Le Conte’s Thrasher, and Lawrence’s Goldfinch (see list following).
Birding Guide to Butterbredt Spring, Canebrake Ecological Reserve (California Department of Fish & Game), Chimney Peak National Backcountry Byway (Bureau of Land Management), Indian Wells Valley (Inyokern, Ridgecrest), Isabella Lake, Kelso Creek Sanctuary (Audubon-California), Kern National Wildlife Refuge (U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service), Kern River Preserve (Audubon-California), western Mojave Desert, Pixley National Wildlife Refuge (USFWS), southern San Joaquin Valley, Sequoia National Forest (including Giant Sequoia National Monument, Kern Plateau, & Western Divide Highway), and South Fork Valley.
Natural History Guide (birds to wildlfowers): Alison Sheehey - “Nature Ali”.
Trip Planning via e-mail, in person, and/or telephone.
Web Pages for accommodations/support services, bird sightings, maps, site guides, travel information.

SPECIALTY/RESTRICTED RANGE SPECIES (Partial List – Based on birders’ inquiries):

Chukar, Sooty Grouse, Mountain Quail, Black Swift, Calliope Hummingbird, Red-breasted Sapsucker, Williamson’s Sapsucker, Nuttall’s Woodpecker, White-headed Woodpecker, Pacific-slope Flycatcher, Plumbeous Vireo, Cassin’s Vireo, Pinyon Jay, Oak Titmouse, Canyon Wren, California Thrasher, Le Conte’s Thrasher, Wrentit, Hermit Warbler, MacGillivray’s Warbler, Green-tailed Towhee, Rufous-crowned Sparrow, Black-chinned Sparrow, Tricolored Blackbird, Scott’s Oriole, Cassin’s Finch, Lawrence’s Goldfinch.

SPECIALTY SPECIES FOR CALIFORNIA BIRDERS (Based on inquiries):

Yellow-billed Cuckoo, Pileated Woodpecker, Vermilion Flycatcher, Brown-crested Flycatcher, Summer Tanager, Red Crossbill.

STEWARDSHIP:

A portion of all proceeds go to benefit birding and habitat stewardship in the region.

COST TO PRIVATE PARTIES (individuals, couples, friends):

$140 per day per guide (covers guide’s services and lunch) using your vehicle, plus $25 for each additional person. Add $50 per day for use of each Bob Barnes & Associates vehicle. Partial days/hours rates available.

Bob Barnes & Associates • PO Box 953, Weldon, CA 93283 • E-mail: Bob Barnes

Hit Counter

Valley Wild

Return to the previous web page

This page was last updated on Saturday, August 25, 2007