The BROWN SHRIKE continues at the Vista Point ponds in McKinleyville. It appeared briefly between showers just after noon and was seen by others in the...
Celebrate Sonoma's Good Nature! Join our 6th Annual Audubon CBC in the spectacular Sonoma Valley & Petaluma just above SF Bay. Lots of adventure and birds...
Hi all, Apparently the goose decided to stick around for awhile! Although it may be getting a bit ho-hum for those who have already seen it there are lots of...
Arrived near Unit 1 at 3PM and looked through the flock of geese untill dusk- no Bean Goose. Conditions were : drizzling rain and moderate wind. The dirt road...
Dear CALBirders, Next August and early September I will be traveling from Vancouver to Baja California by car and I wanna be a part of some pelagic trips. I...
On Thursday, December 23rd, at about 3:00 pm I had several excellent looks at the Brown Shrike at its traditional spot between the two ponds below the Vista...
Hello birders. This afternoon, while birding at Pillar Pt in Half Moon Bay, I discovered a LARGE-BILLED SAVANNAH SPARROW. This very distinctive subspecies of...
All, Kerry Ross photographed the Abbotts Lagoon bird on 18 December. Photo on the WFO web site: http://www.westernfieldornithologists.org/ Click through for...
Greetings, As a follow-up to my Bean-Goose adventure (see below), I have posted a photo of it in the Waterfowl folder and it can also be viewed temporarily in...
The BROWN SHRIKE was seen Christmas day at 10:45am. We followed the directions in Ken Burton's post from 12/23 and they were spot on. After 2hrs of careful...
My husband and I were out at Ballona Creek, this morning ~9:30am. Steve spotted a Ruddy Turnstone, with legbands. There was a gray colored band over the...
Susie and Steve, Since nearly every banded Ruddy Turnstone encountered on the CA coast had been banded by James Helmericks in the Colville River Delta,...
Hi birders Nick and I are presently at McKinleyville, CA Nick re-found the shrike about 15 minutes ago. It was perched low, between the 2 ponds - See previous...
We spent a whole watching the shrike and it is singing! Mary Freeman Glendale, CA Sent from my iPhone ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
Hi birders We and a few birders, some from So CA, watched the shrike feeding, preening, and I watched its tail trembling and then we noticed its throat moving...
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HI EVERYONE- I found a Large-billed Savannah Sparrow at Caesar Chavez Park, West Berkeley during a waterbird survey (one of 72 over a 3 year period) in the...
Hi Birders If you make the pilgrimage to see this great bird, BROWN SHRIKE, there is no need to tromp around the vegetation to flush it out. Our friends, Steve...
Good morning, Thanks to Ed Pandolfino for forwarding my Sunday post, to Jim Helmericks, in Prudhoe Bay, Alaska. Jim is fairly certain that the banded Ruddy...
Dear CALbirders, I am coming to California in a couple of weeks, and since my schedule doesn't seem to match up with any regularly-scheduled pelagic trips, I...
Hey Tal, Monterey Seabirds has a half day pelagic trip scheduled for Sunday, Jan. 23. Details etc. at http://www.montereyseabirds.com This half day trip is...
Hi Tal. Captain Richard Ternullo of Monterey Bay Whale Watch (http://www.montereybaywhalewatch.com/) is an expert sea birder and Captain Mat Curto of the...
Chris Hiatt of Madera asked me to post that he, Bob Bingham, and several others saw the shrike "again today from around 10 to 1 pm farther south of where the...
My father Vernon and I checked the Sugar Hill area of Goose Lake (Modoc Co.) late morning/early afternoon today (12/29), failing to find any of the Bohemian...
Hi all, Got to go goosing this morning, Thursday 12-30. Gary Settje and myself saw "the" goose with eight Greater White-fronted Geese at about 6:20, just...
Hi, Ken Petersen and I observed the BROWN SHRIKE from 11:00A to 1:30P. Several other birders were already present when we arrived, but I didn't catch their...
As l was leaving, Eric Goodill and Ken Petersen were just arriving. It is pleasat to hear they too were successful. I had arrived at 9 AM, when a man was...
I couldn't find this posted previously, but I may have overlooked it. As of January 1 the California Birding Lists Digest maintained by Dave Ranney will be...
Hi All. I spent the past few days down in SoCal birding. I was able to dodge the weather and come up with a few "yes's" and a few "no's"! The no's were, NO...
I saw the continuing Brown Shrike from 08:45 to 9:00am this morning, Dec 31. It was between the two ponds (closer to the south pond) on the west side. Good...
