As we mentioned previously, Audubon California and PRBO Conservation Science sponsored a survey last weekend of Long-billed Curlew in the Central Valley. We're still counting up the data, but in the meantime, it's been fun watching people post their observations to all the California birding listservs. The California Birding Lists Digest is a good place to read them all. For instance, there's this participant who "found 105 curlews in a recently mowed alfalfa field on the north side of Roosevelt Road about 300 yards west of Bliss Road in Merced County. There were also approximately 40 curlews on Bliss Road halfway between Roosevelt Road and Sandy Mush Road. They were also in a recently mowed alfalfa field on the east side of the road." Love that.