Hello all, The Summer reporting season has now ended, and it is time for me to send my quarterly report of all interesting sightings in Ventura County to...
Hi, all. Went to high tide Ventura River Estuary 10 am. Truly tidal at this time. Notables: BB plovers in all stages of molt, Whimbrels, a flock of 8 ...
I just posted photos of a crow with white wingtips. He is hanging around with a small flock of crows and blackbirds near the hike&bike camping area. Bill...
Sunny and windy this evening. Shorebirds in small numbers but good variety. Am. Avocet-3, Black-neck Stilt-4, Black Oystercatcher-3, Black Turnstone-3,...
Birders, After work today in my backyard perched a White-winged Dove. I had one visiting the yard quite frequently last year as well (maybe same bird?). I...
On August 1st I wasn't successful in submitting my first post. I saw what appeared to be two Eurasian Collared-Doves perched on a dual-sided utility pole at my...
This is my first post. I had my digital camera on me today and was able to get photographs of what appeared to be two EURASIAN COLLARED-DOVES in the frontyard...
Just a heads up if you are going to bird the SCRE, bring your scope because it is open to the sea and all the shorebirds are out in the mud flats. Bill Adams ...
Hi all Checked out the breached Santa Clara River estuary at low tide this morning. I entered from the Harbor Blvd bridge, but most of the birds were up...
Hi, all. Sorry for the late report. While scoping the estuary, the gulls rose up- and sure enough, there was a noble Osprey, cruising around. Other species...
I just lost my first attempt at this email so here's the short version. I birded from river mouth from the beach this morning. Could not find any new...
Hi, all. Took a look from the bridge this am. Meet our newest wading bird -- the Turkey Vulture! I wished I had a long video lens to capture this big...
Saw an usual event yesterday in our Camarillo home backyard. A large roadrunner was searching for lizards and came too close to our bird feeder where a family...
Hi, all. This morning sorting through the flock of BB Plovers and Sanderlings, found a single Red Knot. He was easy to refind, as he was banded! Yellow over...
Hi, all. If you want to see how they do it, check this out http://dendroica.blogspot.com/2008/06/red-knot-banding.html These are birds banded In Delaware Bay...
I'm forwarding this report by two "out of town" birding friends, Stan Gray and Chris Rasmussen, of an adult Yellow-crowned Night Heron seen yesterday evening...
My son took some pics June 14, 2008 at the Settling Ponds. Is this a black crowned night heron? Most of the pictures I've seen on the internet of Night...
Birders, Allison and I birded SCRE this evening from 1730-1900 with a Baird's Sandpiper being the highlight. Below is a list of birds observed. Good Birding, ...
Birders, Even though I have had female Black-chinned hummingbirds present since late July, this morning arrived my first male Black-chinned of the fall. Other...
I went looking for the Baird's Sandpiper this morning and from 7:20 'til 9am it was present in the river bed above the Harbor Blvd bridge. You will get your...
Yesterday I sighted 5 EURASIAN COLLARED-DOVES roosting near the top of a dead tree in the area of Loma Dr. & East Loop Dr. in the Camarillo Heights. Earlier in...
I believe they are Eurasian Starlings. Bob Kaufman South Pasadena www.pbase.com/ornithographyplus ... of a ... near ... isn't ... the ... not ... well....
All, I just received photographic documentation for an adult male Painted Bunting seen in a Backyard in Simi Valley on 1 August 2008. The observer said the...
This morning at SCRE I saw a white gull with chestnut mottling on the back and chestnut streaking on the breast. Most of the bill was black except for about...
re the bird seen in 1989. It was caught and banded. Pictures and documented data were submitted to CBC. The bird was inspected by Elliott McClure. The "non...
Jan, If "politics" somehow influenced this decision, that is contrary to everything the committee has tried to accomplish during the years when I was a member....
Birders, Yesterday (Aug 28), Allison and I went whale watching/birding with Island Packers crossing through the Santa Barbara Channel and skirting San Miguel,...