Cool story about Wintu Audubon's Bill Oliver, who is using decades of Audubon Christmas Bird Count data to get a picture of how birds in the Redding area are faring. His take:

Redding has more egrets and turkey vultures, but fewer meadowlarks and kestrels. Yellow-rumped warblers and hooded mergansers are holding their own ... "We're doing fairly well," Oliver said. " But many birds don't fare well when you develop and put in subdivisions and roads and so forth, so change is to be expected."