Birders, Jon Feenstra and I led the LAAS pelagic aboard the UCLA Sea World on Saturday, 25 February. We headed west from Marina del Rey (after seeing the full...
L. A. Birders, The winter season for the North American Birds regional reports has ended. It covers the months of December, January and February. Please send...
Who better than Jon Dunn and Kimball Garrett to guide us through the nuances of difficult sparrow identification? Dunn was chief consultant to the National...
Hi all Some new and continuing birds around the Long Beach area this week: March 2 at El Dorado Park Jeff Boyd and I had a calling VIRGINIA RAIL near the...
During the monthly Bonelli Park nature walk on 2/26/06 a White-tailed Kite was observed on a nest on the north side of the park. In the same general area a...
Hi Birders- Fri 4 Mar I saw my first-of-spring Warbling Vireo this morning at Temescal Gateway Park (Pacific Palisades). Maybe others are being seen around....
Partly to raise awareness of a Monday night City Council vote on whether to tear up the lower level of this park (more info at www.CulverCityPark.org), and...
Saturday 3-4-06 T This afternoon there was an American Avocet in breeding plummage on the water in the middle of Ballona Creek out from the tidal gates east of...
I am sorry I can't join you on this walk on Sunday and I hope you prevail in saving the birding area. If you lead other walks in this park, at other times,...
LA Birders, Mike San Miguel and I spent Sunday 3/5 birding in the Antelope Valley. At Apollo Park there were: a Greater White-fronted Goose, a Canvasback, a...
Birders: Since this directly affects everything we cherish, I urge you to phone your senators tomorrow. Read below. Thanks. NATIONAL CALL-IN DAY: CALL YOUR...
Hi Folks- Wed 8 Feb This morning Karen Gilbert and I had the Brown Thrasher at El Dorado Park (Long Beach)---it continues along the two-mile trail in the ...
That male NORTHERN CARDINAL deigned to reappear and call at noon today. It was in the mulefat bordering the main path, southeast of the second bridge at the...
Fri 10 March This morning I had a male B&W Warbler in a tall euc. just east of the rest rooms near the south end of the park. It responded well to pishing....
Sat 11 Mar The B&W Warbler was still at Polliwog park this morning at 11:30. It was in the bottle brush NE of the bathrooms. After a half hour of looking, I...
Hi Birders- Sat 11 Mar The Painted Redstart is still present in the Solano Canyon section of Elysian Park (see msg #3357 and other previous posts), but this ...
Hi all, 11 Mar 2006 I saw and heard (calling) a Winter Wren this afternoon in the Nature Trail section of DeForest Park in Long Beach. Enter the Nature Trail ...
About 1/2 way down the Lincoln Blvd side of the marsh, in tall reeds on S side of a cleared area where the reeds had been hacked down to water level. About...
At about 11:30 AM today, Liga Auzins and I observed 2 Clay-colored Sparrows with the Chipping Sparrow flock at Rynerson Park in Lakewood (park located on SW...
Chuck and Lillian- Thanks for your report. Least Bitterns have been reported calling at BFM this winter. There was nesting last summer. Richard Barth West...
LA Birders, There was an Eastern Phobe in Eaton Canyon this morning. It was in the riverbed north of the New York Dr bridge and south of a rusty pipe that runs...
Hi all, Today 3-12 there was an alternate plumage RED-NECKED GREBE swimming just off Point Dume (off Highway 1 just west of Malibu). The bird was most easily...
It only took four tries, but I finally saw the Thick-billed Kingbird at Banning Park in Wilmington on Sunday March 12. The bird was perched at the top of an...
A male Common Goldeneye was observed today at Bonelli Regional Park in San Dimas. It was in a cove at the NW corner of the lake near the Boater's Picnic Area....
Hi Folks- Wed 15 Mar This morning there was a Tropical Kingbird at El Dorado Park in Long Beach, foraging mostly south and southwest of the northernmost lake...
Robert forwarded me the following message that was bounced when he tried to post it... Greetings Birders, March 15, 2006: Yesterday (March 14), the immature...