There are several points I would like to make about the posting of rare birds at Galileo Hills. As recent emails have suggested, this discussion represents an...
Hi everyone, My backyard is filled with hammering sounds. Fall is here and I have my first Nuttrall no flickers yet. But still the battles rage over who...
Galileo Hill is in Kern County, out of the area covered by this listserve. Further comments on this subject should be posted on the Kern County list or...
I know this is a little late, as the bird was dead, but I thought this was quite interesting. We found a dead Brown Pelican on top of a mountain in the...
greetings. I was going to mention that friday was National Sarcasm Day, but I am sure that you all knew. Birded with some charming birders from the West coast,...
Roger Higson
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Oct 3, 2004 1:40 pm
1980
This morning at San Jacinto Wildlife Area were: 2-3 dozen Greater White-fronted Geese LB and SN Dowitchers White-tailed Kite Northern Harrier Greater...
Great birding this morning in San Jacinto WP. I spend 4.5 hours walking around and saw 64 species. Highlights incude: * Pectoral Sandpiper - 8 (some other...
Gerco Hoogeweg
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Oct 3, 2004 10:57 pm
1982
Greetings, To add to the list of birds seen at SJWA today, this afternoon from approximately 1130 to 1330, there was a red-breasted sapsucker along with a...
Hi all, I spent 3 Oct 2004 birding in the Salton Sea area with a couple friends. Below are highlights. * 1 Nashville Warbler, 12 Willow Flycatcher, and 2 ad...
The cranes have returned to their usual winter hangout in the Imperial Valley at the feed mill near the Holly Sugar plant between Imperial and Brawley. Over a...
An immature Parasitic Jaeger was at Johnson's Landing in Salton City this afternoon. Guy McCaskie 954 Grove Avenue Imperial Beach, CA 91932 TEL 619-423-7524...
oct. 5 There is a female Evening Grosbeak coming to the feeders at Big Morongo Canyon Preserve. It has been around the area for over a week. It was easy to...
Southeastern CA Rare Bird Alert update, 6 October 2004 These updates are unedited, and often lacking in specific directions (you get the directions that the...
Doug Karalun reports: October 06, 2004 The female Evening Grosbeak was continuing at the Morongo Canyon feeders on Wednesday afternoon. There was also a...
RBA California Southeastern October 7th, 2004 CASE0410.07 This is the Southeastern CA weekly RBA summary. We cover Imperial, Riverside, and San Bernardino...
We saw PINE SISKINS in our suburban yard in Temecula in 2002-2003 from Oct 24 through May 5. Numbers peaked in late Feb 2003 (19 on Feb 27, 2003). We had no...
greetings. Still good numbers of Hirundines, I had about five hundred on the ground (!) eating bugs, mostly Trees and Barns. They drop down, grab it and take...
Roger Higson
art.higson@...
Oct 9, 2004 12:29 am
1993
I found a couple of interesting birds this morning at Desert Center -- Red Phalarope and Grasshopper Sparrow. That's an odd duo for a day list. The Red...
greetings. Spent 9 hours in the field, around Blythe, nothing. Highlights, 2 Red Heads and a Canvasback at the drop. The highlight was the "Mystery Hawk at...
Roger Higson
art.higson@...
Oct 9, 2004 11:53 pm
1995
I spent the day (9 Oct) checking migrant traps in the Mojave Desert. I started at Horsethief Spring, where the highlight was an Ovenbird. Also at Horsethief:...
Hi all, A few birds of note on the Salton Sea today, 10-09. At the end of Colfax Road on the north side of the sea a juvenile Parasitic Jaeger was taking fish...
greetings, My Job today was to move the vicious budgies, and cockatiels into something vast. I guess the psittacine Queen got a steal on one of Martha Stewarts...
Roger Higson
art.higson@...
Oct 10, 2004 9:36 pm
1998
We (Brian L. Sullivan, Robby Kohley and Eric Kershner) spent the morning and early afternoon along the south shore of the Salton Sea between the north end of...
Today, Sunday, 10/10/04, my wife Louann and I found four adult Yellow-footed Gulls at the end of Poe Road at the southwest end of the Salton Sea. Two Laughing...
Southeastern CA Rare Bird Alert update, 12 October 2004 These updates are unedited, and often lacking in specific directions (you get the directions that the...
Today (October 12th) I saw a Tropical Kingbird on utility wires along International Road just to the north of Pound Road (southern edge of Niland), and a male...
Nathan Moorhatch and I went looking for the Ovenbird, Eastern Phoebe, and Least Bittern that Bob McKernan found at Lake Perris on the 11th. Soon after we found...
Southeastern CA Rare Bird Alert update 13 October 2004 These updates are unedited, and often lacking in specific directions (you get the directions that the...
Hi All, I have been waiting for my Edwards AFB access letter renewal from Mark Hagen at Edwards and just got this response. I have new Commanders and they have...