Rare Bird

Hi all.
We have some visitors here at Palo for a couple days; Malkolm (15yrs) and his parents are on a bird conservation bike tour from the Yukon Terr, Canada, going all the way to Florida in a year without using fossil fuels!!!!! Pretty amazing!
Malkolm and his parents were out hiking near Bass Lake today and Malkolm saw a Black-Throated Sparrow....!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! He took tons of pictures on his hi-tech camera and sure enough, the Dettler and Alicia (Clear Creek) confirmed it!!!!! Very cool and exciting!
We called Keith Hanson and he was delighted to say the least. I think he said he's only seen or heard of 3 or 4 in the area in the past 20-30 years....(i hope I'm not making that up, it might have gotten lost in translation.)
Anyhooooooo. Thought you guys would be interested in hearing that tidbit.
The biker birders have a cool website:
birdyear.com
p.s. 23 WAVIs at RECR the other day- that's niiice....
miss you all - kokes