This am a pair of Brandt's geese, many black turnstones, a few Whimbrels and Black-bellied plovers, hundreds of peeps, and me without my scope! It looked like...
I was at the Ventura River Mouth yesterday late afternoon to dusk. Many peeps and some of the Sanderlings are really beautiful with their rusty coloring (Least...
On Saturday, May 17 Tom Halpin, Vic Hostetter, and I birded the Valley View Ranch along the Santa Clara River west of Fillmore for a couple of hours. At about...
Jennifer de la Torre saw a Black and White Warbler on Monday, May 19. The bird was near a horse corral off Sunnydale Avenue in Simi Valley. An attempt to...
Went sailing yesterday (5/23) from Channel Islands Harbor to Ventura Harbor and back, staying within a mile or two of shore because of fog. There was a huge...
Hello to all Ventura County birders: The spring season (1 March 30 May) is offically over, and to paraphrase Guy McCaskie and Kimball Garrett, I solicit...
Was at the Ventura Water Treatment Plant 5/28/03 approx...9:30am- 10:30am - a foggy morning. Sited the following: 1. Cinnamon Teal x 1 2. Male Ruddy Duck x1 ...
Frazier Mountain has many Lawrence's Goldfinches this year, but few empids. There are also a couple of singing Black-chinned Sparrows on the lower slopes....
Hi all birding at SCRE today in the afternoon I had 2 male Blue-winged Teal, 3 Wilson's Phalaropes, 2 Caspian Terns, a Black Skimmer, and 2 Bonie Gulls. Most...
I've now been told that the Least Terns were there earlier in the month but have since disappeared. I have to wonder why. Today when I was out there I saw...
Son Mike found a male Summer Tanager today at Halfmoon Campground and I found the female. It doesn't seem a likely place for them to breed, or is it? John...
The last couple of weeks have been enjoyable, watching all the baby ducks, Mallards of all sizes, now mostly 3/4 grown. Boy, can those babies scoot when...
OK, so this is a little out of the area for the list (but not much), but if any of you could be kind enough to provide some pointers on finding montane species...
First off, sorry for any cross posting. Secondly, and more importantly -- as time is running out... The 28th Annual Meeting of the Western Field Ornithologists...
Saw a Hooded Oriole (male in summer plumage) flying in & out of flowering mallow shrub on west side of Ojai Tennis Court parking lot (s.w. corner of Ojai Trail...
Saturday at Settling Ponds watched a "couple" of Ruddies courting. The male made a very strange "spitting" noise (see Sibley for one description) while...
I did a real good survey at SCRE this morning walking all the way from the nature trail across the mud flats to the Least Tern enclosure. Beside the usual...
Just a quick look around the mud flats at 1:00PM. 4 Black-necked Stilt 1 Willet (alternate) 17 Western Sandpiper (alternate with some having worn coverts) 1...
11:00 am 8 Black-necked Stilts (1 juvenile) I guess we can safely assume that a plague didn't wipe them out and I don't have to count them anymore. 22 Western...
Did about a half hour seawatch at Mugu Rock around 11AM. Offshore feeding with Common? Dolphins was around 150-300 Sooty Shearwaters (there may have been more...
Hi Birders Today at Mcgrath State Beach there was a nice assortment of birds, though nothing rare (unfortunately!). There were 4 Wilson's Phalaropes in nice...
11:00am I took a short bike ride this morning and wound up at the Ventura River Mouth. A few birds present worth mentioning: 100+ Elegant Tern 2 Royal Tern 5...
Four band-tailed pidgeons were seen this am, chowing down on elderberries in Hall Canyon, right across from the gate to the water treatment facility. They...
I'm sure glad my family was there to witness when I looked out the window toward our feeder today around 4:20pm saw a male northern cardinal. He flew to a...
CENTRAL COAST BIRDING RALLY ADDS NON-COMPETITIVE VENUE A non-competitive Hobby Class Rally has been added to this year's event scheduled for October 3-5....
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Can anyone recommend a (reasonably) reliable spot for lawrence's goldfinches? For some reason, I've been extremely unlucky in finding them...but I refuse to...
Black-necked Stilts and Avocets were in abundance this morning at the Santa Clara River MouthOther shorebirds presnt included a few Willets, Marbled Godwits,...
The estuary is almost fully flooded this am. I just checked above the bridge, briefly. Among the avocets and peeps there was a small flock of Bonaparte's...
Late post - birding Ventura River Estuary Thursday, very low tide in the morning, saw a first year? Western gull with red (top)and white (bottom) bands on its...
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