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Bird Sightings at the Ranch |
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 Many thanks to local bird watcher Maggie Smith who, as part of a census of yellow billed magpies, came out to Adelaida Springs Ranch with her expert eye. Here are the results of her report, which offers a quick glimpse of the rich avian wildlife in our oak woodland habitat:
Location: SLO/Adelaida Springs Ranch
Observation date: 6/3/11
Notes: Laird Foshay graciously allowed me to survey his property for Yellow-billed Magpie. I drove to 2 locations Laird suggested. Cattle were present at both locations as well as many large oaks.
Number of species: 35
Mallard 4
California Quail 30
Wild Turkey 21
Turkey Vulture 3
Red-tailed Hawk 2
American Kestrel 1
Mourning Dove 8
Acorn Woodpecker 30
Nuttall's Woodpecker 2
Downy Woodpecker 1
Northern Flicker (Red-shafted) 3
Pacific-slope Flycatcher 2
Black Phoebe 3
Ash-throated Flycatcher 3
Western Kingbird 5
Warbling Vireo 1
Western Scrub-Jay 8
Yellow-billed Magpie 16
Violet-green Swallow 10
Barn Swallow 8
Oak Titmouse 8
Bushtit 5
White-breasted Nuthatch 2
House Wren 5
Western Bluebird 15
European Starling 50
Orange-crowned Warbler 1
Yellow Warbler 1
California Towhee 3
Dark-eyed Junco (Oregon) 30
Black-headed Grosbeak 3
Red-winged Blackbird 4
Bullock's Oriole 3
House Finch 25
Lesser Goldfinch 6
This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org)
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Vineyard Update March 2011 |
Pruned Cabernet vine & discarded wood
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Confessions of a Winegrower 1.5 |
A Day to Remember or
"Not just outside, but outside myself"
 I started this blog last year with the hopes of keeping up a regular schedule. Now I notice that my previous post was last summer. It turns out that running a ranch as a family business and writing regularly are at cross-purposes. Ironically, after my first career in business, I saw myself as writer who occasionally trotted around on horseback and sipped my own wine from the terrace while overlooking nature's bounty. Ah, to be naive again.
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Flora Rosé
People often ask us if we have any white wines to offer. Since we have no white grapes in our vineyard, and we make only estate wines, a rosé is the closest we can come to offering a white wine, for now. We are pleased to announce that we will be bottling our first Flora Rosé at the beginning of April. The annual Flora series will feature botanical illustrations of plants that grow in and around our Adelaida Springs Ranch estate vineyard. Our first label features Winter Vetch.
Our rosé carries a light blush color. We did not add any red wines to help enrich the color. We felt that the unadulterated rosé wine offered the purest expression and most delicate floral notes. The Flora Rosé will be relased just in time for spring and summer. We hope that you enjoy this new addition to our wine lineup as much as we do.
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