While walking on the trail from the Park Bench Cafe to the red flowering tree behind Shipley, a nice group of birders pointed out to me a Fox Sparrow, digging...
I put pics of Blackpoll and Prothonotary Warbler and Fox Sparrow in the Misc folder. I don't have a great camera so they aren't the kind of quality that makes...
Hi all, The Mountain Chickadee(s) continue in Laguna Niguel (Sunday 10/01/06), feeding in Eucalyptus near El Niguel GC. Also, not a rarity per se, but my first...
Greetings, Thank you Robert, for your on-topic message about the mountain chickadee, Townsend's warbler, and yellow-rumped warbler. This is just a friendly...
I forgot to post last week. Sometime last week, I want to say a week ago Monday but I might be wrong-my husband was driving into the beach cities when he...
Just wanted to let folks know: anyone who's interested in plentiful osprey sightings should try to cruise by the intersection of Edinger Ave. and Bolsa Chica...
Jody Graham
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Oct 4, 2006 2:53 am
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The other day I heard what at first sounded like a starling. A bubbling sort-of chortle, but off from how a starling usually sounds. I looked around and only...
Hello all, Since there seems to be so much interest in Osprey lately, I'll add in my sightings. I have been seeing at least three seperate individuals over...
Yes, indeed! When we had our cabin up in the Cleveland National Forest, the scrub jays would stop by to sample the seeds in the feeders (and a peanut or two,...
Quoting from The Sibley Guide to Bird Life and Behavior (2001), many species of jay have..."softer, often more musical notes used in close quarters for...
Hi Birders My first discovery of a "warbling" Western Scrub Jay came many years ago while living in Los Angeles. The jay sat motionless in the euc outside of...
Nick & Mary Freeman
mnfreeman@...
Oct 5, 2006 7:07 am
2095
I'd like to remind you of the upcoming Sea & Sage Audubon field trip this coming Saturday, Oct. 7th, in the San Diego area. The trip will be led by Gary...
Vic Leipzig, Mark Singer, Roy Poucher and I attempted an Orange County Big Day yesterday, Sunday, October 8, as part of PRBO's Fall Birdathon. We had an...
For anybody that noticed, I listed Great Egret twice in our Big Day list. I omitted Eared Grebe, however, so our total remains 145. Thanks to Mark for pointing...
Hello Everyone, We received what I think is a juvenile brown boobie today from Newport Beach. Lisa Birkle is going to call Vic and Lou to see if they can come...
Hey, I heard that Jim Pike took pictures today of the brown boobie at our center. Any chance that they will be posted on the site? Thank you to everyone that...
I've been watching posts that talked of a Black and White Warbler at HBCP. For weeks now I've been convincing myself that it was just mis-identifications of...
Laguna Niguel R.P. was quite active this morning including 10 species of warbler. The Adult male American Redstart and Plumbeous Vireo continue at the park and...
Hello, This afternoon, my husband and I went to Huntington Beach Central parl to check out the scene and take photos. In the marshy area northeast of the...
Here's my guess, American pipit.. Regards, Raul Roa Whittier, CA Raul Roa Staff Photographer, SGVN 1210 N. Azusa Cny. Rd., W. Covina, CA. 91790 Office:...
The bird that was posted under ID in Misc. folder, looks to me to be a Northern Waterthrush. Don't look under thrushes. You won't find it. It's related to...
I was Gull-watching saturday afternoon at Doheny Beach, mostly California and Western gulls, and a few Heerman's and Ring-billed. One bird stood out, a first...
Greetings, Steve Smith and I were at the wooden bridge at Bolsa Chica this morning and had a possible hybrid Glaucous-winged x Herring Gull swimming around on...
Hello everyone, I saw this blackbird locally but am unable to identify it. Perhaps someone could help me. I will post a photo of it in the miscellaneous ...
Blackheaded cowbird, I believe... Regards, Raul Roa Whittier, Ca Raul Roa Staff Photographer, SGVN 1210 N. Azusa Cny. Rd., W. Covina, CA. 91790 Office:...
OK... I'll bite on a possible identification. Let's rule out a "Black-headed Cowbird" as there doesn't appear to be such a species. That guesser is now two...
Nancy Kenyon sent me an email pointing out that the earlier edition of the Natl. Geographic Guide (which I don't have) discusses this as a "fall variant male."...
I've seen several blackbirds like this photographed individual in large flocks of Brewer's Blackbirds in the Mojave Desert this fall, for example at Luckie...
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