A juvenile Cooper's Hawk was almost comical Monday as it was buffeted by stronger than usual day's end wind gusts while perched on our back fence in Solera,...
RBA * California * Southeastern * July 2, 2009 * CASE0907.02 This is the Southeastern CA weekly RBA summary. We cover Imperial, Riverside, and San Bernardino...
greetings. If you are headed this way, then you had better be prepared. We are almost at nine am it is 53% humidity -IN MY HOME ! And out doors it is a...
Dear friends, Our team from the San Diego Natural History Museum, with friends and supporters, visited the Tahquitz Valley area of the high San Jacinto...
Hmm. Many of you know where I live... only thing special about my house and yard is the beautiful woman that lives here. This morning I'm reading on the couch...
The most unexpected birds encountered at the Salton Sea yesterday, 3 July 2009, were three (3) Common Loons together between the west ends of Lindsey and Young...
This isn't on a par with Chet's Canyon Wren, but this morning there was a ratty singing male YELLOW WARBLER a few blocks from my house in Redlands. Although...
greetings,again my my apologies for offending residents of LA, by suggesting that some that come down to the river on the 4th of July are scum. I did not...
Yesterday pm was pleasent.I discovered if you sit underneath a dock, on the Colorado River, with a Tim Burton book in a giant zip lock bag. NO the book is in...
This morning at the North End of the Sea were 3 COMMON LOONS, with singles at Mecca Beach, State Park and Palm Island. 2 LAUGHING GULLS were at Salt Creek. A...
Regarding Howard's loon message -- there's seems to have been at least three loons working the stretch from Salt Creek to Hayes Road for 2-3 months, including...
Luke Cole 400 Species $40,000 Memorial Challenge A benefit for Center on Race, Poverty and the Environment (CRPE) September 26th and 27th, 2009 The birding...
Luke Cole 400 Species $40,000 Memorial Challenge A benefit for Center on Race, Poverty and the Environment (CRPE) September 26th and 27th, 2009 The birding...
greetings took a quick spin.13 mile round trip to get the paper ! The usual suspects, going to bird properly next. You know you live in Blythe when you shop in...
greetings. Now the high desert, mountain, low desert, my PERSONAL sewage plant, my golf course pond fight to the death wader confrontation has started ! Why, I...
(previous message had the wrong subject - oops) I just saw a note on texbirds that the Sibley Guide to Birds is on-line http://sibley.enature.com/ Cool! Good...
I whistled in a Northern pygmy-owl in the San Bernardino Mtns. around 10 AM. It only called a few times from it's perch on the dead top of a white fir 100...
greetings. I sat with glee with SWMBO and her coven (I lie,them get up that early !)I actually sat on the neighbours dock, and took in the first 15 mins of the...
Hi, A White-breasted Nuthatch (WBNU) was calling repeatedly in riparian woodlands well to the west of the Renaissance Park near River Road in Norco today....
RBA * California * Southeastern * July 9, 2009 * CASE0907.09 This is the Southeastern CA weekly RBA summary. We cover Imperial, Riverside, and San Bernardino...
After several failed nesting attempts, one of the three pairs of Vermilion Flycatchers at Cal State San Bernardino finally successfully fledged 2 young. This...
Greetings . Don't deny I am getting older, and that my 201k mileage GMC truck that I adore with no ac and only am radio, is not the best of steeds to roam the...
Dan Williams called to report that there were 3 Least Terns foraging over the ponds near the intersection of Davis and Hazard Roads today, July 9. He also...
For anyone who might be planning to visit the Siberia Creek trail at Bluff Lake, you should be aware that the last stream crossing before the trail head is...
greetings. The phone lines are filling up with swallows. I have found a past time as futile as sorting through Plegadis ibii.Sorting through them Lot of...
Hiked up to South Fork Meadows today, the headwaters of the SF Santa Ana, near Dry and Dollar Lakes. Nothing unusual, but good to see breeding warblers - 5...
Hello all, Last week we had an interesting hummingbird at our feeders. It was definitely a male Selasphorous, and it had some green on its upper back and...
Charity Hagen
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Jul 14, 2009 6:26 pm
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According to Steve Howell's "Hummingbirds of North America," "up to 1-2% of adult male Rufous have all-green backs." I do not know if this varies regionally....
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