greetings, my weekend birding was horribly fore-shortened by an attack of cibola disease, this is not like ebola. But it feels like it should be. Went down to...
Roger Higson
art.higson@...
Feb 2, 2005 12:45 am
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Hi all, A quick note on some valley birds. Have seen the female Vermilion Flycatcher and the Gray Flycatcher at Cattle Call Park in Brawley three days in a...
Hi Bob! Thanks again for all your great reports and enthusiasm and detailed directions! It's early in the year, but I feel compelled to nominate you for a...
Hey all, Not a breeder, but maybe nice as a migrant? Last monday Tom and me saw a very fine Green-Tailed Towhee at the Botanical Gardens (25 meters from the...
I drove around Lake Matthews this afternoon and saw three Bald Eagles. The adults were seen from Cajalco Road, perching in trees on the "near" shore. An...
Hey all, A few days ago, while birding at Cattle Call Park in Brawley, we are watching the Gray Flycatcher and this Cooper's Hawk comes buzzing through the...
My wife and I circuited Lake Matthews today. We saw the two adult Bald Eagles but not the immature from Cajalco Rd. -- Curtis Croulet Temecula, California ...
Dear LA and Desert Birders, I feel compelled to respond to Kimball's email about the Tundra/Mute Swan in Pasadena, since I was one of the people who saw the...
Southeastern CA Rare Bird Alert update 4 Feb 2005 The weekly summary is delayed again, here's what has come in in the meantime: These updates are unedited, and...
I birded the Prado area with two of my young birding friends, Arturo Garcia and Chase Bains. We found many of the notable birds reported earlier including...
The birds seem to be shifting further. I don't recall seeing Ring-necked Duck at Fairmount in December when we were all trying to find the Little Gull, but...
greetings. I am so glad to see beginner birders taking baby steps in confidence, and reporting local bird news to this web site. Keep it up. Remember please,...
Roger Higson
art.higson@...
Feb 6, 2005 9:51 pm
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Bill -- Thought you might find it interesting that LAST year my husband and I saw an Ash-throated Flycatcher at Prado RP near Parking Lot #7 on February 14th. ...
Hey all, Yesterday, me & Tom went by bike to Mystic Lake & shortly to San Jacinto W.A. It was a horrible ride because of the cold rain that fell on and off...
Went on the bird walk at San Jacinto on Sunday morning led by Sue Nash. It rained a little to start with but an excellent time was had by all, thanks Sue. ...
Hi all, Had just gotten off the phone with Bob Theriault about where the White-winged Doves were in Borrego Springs because we had not been seeing any. One...
RBA California Southeastern February 9th, 2005 CASE0502.09 This is the Southeastern CA weekly RBA summary. We cover Imperial, Riverside, and San Bernardino...
greetings, as usual we can skip birds. As we are in the doldrums, though I did see my year high count of 41 Cattle Egrets today, up from 15 a week ago ! 3...
Roger Higson
art.higson@...
Feb 10, 2005 2:57 am
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greetings, i received a fascinating message from Ann Hull. Who is also a "member of inland county birds" . Her prose is such that if I was 20 years younger,...
Roger Higson
art.higson@...
Feb 10, 2005 11:43 pm
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HI birders, I just returned from an extended period of bird research from the southeastern shores of the Salton Sea. On Wednesday evening (2/9/05) I was...
greetings. it is only 6:00 am, and we have had 0.51 inches of rain in the last seven hours. That is slightly over an eighth of what we had last year in toto....
Roger Higson
art.higson@...
Feb 11, 2005 2:52 pm
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Southeastern CA Rare Bird Alert update 11 Feb 2005 These updates are unedited, and often lacking in specific directions (you get the directions that the...
Grout Bay, Big Bear Lake, San Bernardino County 4:00 pm ============================================ 3 Wood Ducks 8 Common Goldeneyes, with males displaying...
There were about 30 Mountain Plovers on Bridge Street today.A Prairie Falcon continues in the area. In a flock of several hundred Canada Geese were 4 Snow...
Hey all, At last! We went to the Salton Sea area, last sunday! Together with our fellow Dutchman Gerco Hoogenweg we made a Tour de Sea & not by bike, since...
Today about noontime a ~30 min trip around Seccombe Lake netted the expected: PBGR, DCCO, GREG, SNEG, CAEG CAGO (several Common and one "Aleut") AMWI, GADW,...
Hello everyone, birded Prado dam area monday, saw 4 of the 5 vermillion flycatchers that were previously posted. I saw 2 males and 1 female in the soccer field...
Southeastern CA Rare Bird Alert update 15 Feb 2005 These updates are unedited, and often lacking in specific directions (you get the directions that the...
Hi all, Had a fantastic time at the San Diego Bird Festival this past week. The tours were fun, the ocean was calm and Palomar was great even though a ...