For those interested, I went out to Santa Cruz Island last sunday to photograph the Island Scrub Jay. On the way out we encountered a pod of 5,000+ Common...
A great bird to kick-off the new year! Feeding, flycatching & preening from the oak tree and utility pole about 200-300 feet east of the upper parking lot...
Hi, Today Jan 1 around noon there was a very pale gull at Castaic Lagoon, out in the water at the north end of the lagoon near the line of buoys that closes...
Greetings Birders: One Hooded Merganser (female) was observed at Topanga Lagoon at 1:20 pm today (12-31-2007), with Marcia Hanscom, while enroute to Malibu...
Greetings Birders: A Peregrine Falcon was observed at 11:30 am today (12-31-2007) at Playa del Rey. It was first seen gliding and soaring adjacent to Culver...
This morning I photographed a pair of goldeneye ducks near the Pacific avenue bridge in Ballona Creek. The one on the left looks like a Barrow's, as the bill ...
Birders- Wed 2 Jan This morning there was a Hammond's Flycatcher at tiny Pacific Avenue Park in Burbank (on Pacific Ave. west of Hollywood Way, just south of ...
For those without access to the photos, they appear to show a typical female-type Common Goldeneye (left bird) and another female/HY male Common with a...
Hi all, A first cycle Glaucous Gull, among a flock of 300 gulls at the Lancaster sewer ponds this afternoon, was the first I have ever seen in the Antelope...
To all those who participated in the Los Angeles Basin CBC and saw one of the birds listed below please submit to me a description of the bird on a "Rare Bird...
Eleanor Osgood
gardenbird@...
Jan 3, 2008 1:54 am
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Link to Rare Bird Form for anyone who needs it: http://www.audubon.org/bird/cbc/pdf/rarebird.pdf Some links to some photos I took in Lancaster and LA count...
Los Angeles Audubon, Santa Monica Bay Audubon and Palos Verdes/South Bay Audubon will be co-sponsoring surveys for the threatened Western Snowy Plover...
- RBA * California * Los Angeles RBA * January 3, 2008 * CALA0801.03 - Birds mentioned White-winged Scoter Red-necked Grebe Bald Eagle Golden Eagle Glaucous...
Hi all, Today I birded the east Antelope Valley. In the fields at Avenue I and 110th East I counted 186 Mountain Plovers and I likely missed more of them. This...
Hi, Brian Daniels asked Doug Willick and me for our opinions of the Wardlow Park empid featured in the recently-posted photos to this forum. Brian came to the...
Hello, A Cassin's Vireo was at Sepulveda Basin Wildlife Area this morning Jan 6. It was first spotted in one of the bare trees at the south end of the lake,...
Hi Birders You are cordially invited to attend Los Angeles Audubon's monthly meeting this Wednesday, 1/9/08. The meeting starts at 7:30pm at Plummer Park,...
Today, Sunday the 6, there was a juvenile Greater-white fronted Goose together with a Cackling/Aleutian? Canada Goose and a lesser Canada Goose foraging along...
Hi all, At about noon today an adult Thayer's Gull was among 1600 gulls on the Los Angeles River at Atlantic Blvd. Two adult Snow Geese and 8 Blue-winged Teal...
A Common Moorhen was swimming in the east channel (paralleling Lincoln Blvd) about 12:30 today. The White-fronted Goose, which I had seen on 26 Dec, was not in...
At 1pm an adult Bald Eagle was soaring over the east side of the park. In the east shore area near restroom #11 there was a male Hairy Woodpecker. Also in the...
Hi All, I want to thank Brian Daniels, Karen Gilbert, and others who went out for a look at the empid at Wardlow Park. I had suspected the bird was a Least...
Birders- Tues 8 Jan This morning there was a Black-and-white Warbler (apparent imm. male) on the Loyola Marymount University campus in Westchester. It was ...
Birders- Wed 9 Jan This has been an especially good winter for Common Goldeneye in the county. Today there were two COGO, a female and an imm. male, diving in...
LA Co birders, This morning in the Australian section of the LA County Arboretum in Arcadia there was a Pacific-slope Flycatcher. I estimated 115 Red- ...
The Long-tailed Duck was still present this afternoon west of the Pacific St. bridge. Of other interest was a Loggerhead Shrike near the intersection of...
An adult male Cassin's finch turned up in our yard in suburban Claremont today (elev. 1200 ft). Last time we had them was December 1997 - after similar...
Birders- Thurs 10 Jan This morning at Los Angeles National Cemetery I had a male Summer Tanager and the continuing (since 2 Dec) imm. male type Baltimore ...
Hi all, I was wondering if the canvasbacks and ring-necked ducks are back at Alondra park this year. Any recent sightings? thanks Lucio Gomes Playa del Rey...