At the puddle just NW of Nature Center
Tuesday, December 19, 2017
Fox Sparrow and California Voles at Eaton Canyon Nature Center puddle
At the puddle just NW of Nature Center
Monday, December 18, 2017
SD too good
Cackling Goose (2 reports)
- Black Scoter (2 reports)
- Long-tailed Duck (6 reports)
- Hooded Merganser (2 reports)
- Nazca Booby (11 reports)
- Tricolored Heron (9 reports)
- Mountain Plover (5 reports)
- Short-eared Owl (8 reports)
- Greater Pewee (7 reports)
- Vermilion Flycatcher (2 reports)
- Thick-billed Kingbird (2 reports)
- Brown Creeper (1 report)
- Pacific Wren (1 report)
- Red-throated Pipit (7 reports)
- Black-and-white Warbler (1 report)
- Hooded Warbler (4 reports)
- Hermit Warbler (2 reports)
- Nelson's Sparrow (1 report)
- Fox Sparrow (Slate-colored) (1 report)
- Summer Tanager (8 reports)
- Hooded Oriole (2 reports)
- Baltimore Oriole (2 reports)
Do I have to go down there yet again?
- Black Scoter (2 reports)
- Long-tailed Duck (6 reports)
- Hooded Merganser (2 reports)
- Nazca Booby (11 reports)
- Tricolored Heron (9 reports)
- Mountain Plover (5 reports)
- Short-eared Owl (8 reports)
- Greater Pewee (7 reports)
- Vermilion Flycatcher (2 reports)
- Thick-billed Kingbird (2 reports)
- Brown Creeper (1 report)
- Pacific Wren (1 report)
- Red-throated Pipit (7 reports)
- Black-and-white Warbler (1 report)
- Hooded Warbler (4 reports)
- Hermit Warbler (2 reports)
- Nelson's Sparrow (1 report)
- Fox Sparrow (Slate-colored) (1 report)
- Summer Tanager (8 reports)
- Hooded Oriole (2 reports)
- Baltimore Oriole (2 reports)
Do I have to go down there yet again?
Tuesday, December 12, 2017
Sunday, November 19, 2017
Ani location and birders pics
Paul LehmanToday at 10:53 AM
Running north-south along the western border in the community park is a wide paved path and a dirt path side by side, and the ani is currently between the paved path and the dirt path just south of two split rail "bridges" on the paved path. When first found, the bird was due east of the two Bridges in thick bunchgrass and a single short planted pine tree that is along the edge of a soccer field immediately east of the bridges.
Paul Lehman
http://www.sdbirder.com/Birds/CROSUL
Groove-billed Ani (Crotophaga sulcirostris) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported Nov 19, 2017 13:44 by Edana Salisbury
- Encinitas Community Park, San Diego, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=33.0321309,-117.2807693&ll=33.0321309,-117.2807693
- Checklist: http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S40612729
- Media: 4 Photos
- Comments: "Medium-large black bird (though shorter in length than American Crow) with a cast of iridescent purple and green. Large black grooved bill, with curved upper mandible that did not rise above the crown, and a straight lower mandible. Head and throat feathers, not smooth, almost disheveled. Very long tail. Ani started to give a few quiet alarm squeaks (large crowd), so we left the area. Photos to follow. To find bird, park in baseball parking lot east side of park (off Mac Kinnon Ave). Walk west on dirt path between two baseball fields (starts at bathroom) to intersection of north-south paved path on west side of park. Bird found in the area of intersection, in bushes, near the bridge."
Lehman and McCaskie..!
Don't think I can go this time though.
Anyway you just can't beat SD!! Another setback for LA lol.
Running north-south along the western border in the community park is a wide paved path and a dirt path side by side, and the ani is currently between the paved path and the dirt path just south of two split rail "bridges" on the paved path. When first found, the bird was due east of the two Bridges in thick bunchgrass and a single short planted pine tree that is along the edge of a soccer field immediately east of the bridges.
Paul Lehman
http://www.sdbirder.com/Birds/CROSUL
Groove-billed Ani (Crotophaga sulcirostris) (1) CONFIRMED
- Reported Nov 19, 2017 13:44 by Edana Salisbury
- Encinitas Community Park, San Diego, California
- Map: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=p&z=13&q=33.0321309,-117.2807693&ll=33.0321309,-117.2807693
- Checklist: http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S40612729
- Media: 4 Photos
- Comments: "Medium-large black bird (though shorter in length than American Crow) with a cast of iridescent purple and green. Large black grooved bill, with curved upper mandible that did not rise above the crown, and a straight lower mandible. Head and throat feathers, not smooth, almost disheveled. Very long tail. Ani started to give a few quiet alarm squeaks (large crowd), so we left the area. Photos to follow. To find bird, park in baseball parking lot east side of park (off Mac Kinnon Ave). Walk west on dirt path between two baseball fields (starts at bathroom) to intersection of north-south paved path on west side of park. Bird found in the area of intersection, in bushes, near the bridge."
Lehman and McCaskie..!
Don't think I can go this time though.
Anyway you just can't beat SD!! Another setback for LA lol.
Thursday, October 26, 2017
400th California lifebird
So. Cal since Ventura county is the northernmost area I've birded.
From this year
From this year
Saturday, October 21, 2017
CHRIS DEAN ALERT AT SD!
Just checked and she birded FRNC earlier today??!
What is SHE doing here :) Did she go back already or is she going for Black throated Blue Warbler or Longspurs.
What is SHE doing here :) Did she go back already or is she going for Black throated Blue Warbler or Longspurs.
Paul Lehman again at Famosa????!
I swear it looked like Paul Lehman, same blue shirt, same birder guy, and I
didn't bring the NG book, why didn't I bother today lol(I brought it
yesterday). But I can't just grab him(he didn't stay, just passed
straight by, unlike other birders), that will be too rude, no? And what
if it wasn't him. Anyhow my birding-honed? lol observation skill! tells me it looks like this handsome guy,
http://creagrus.home.montereybay.com/CAwhoPEL.html
fast-forward 30? years!
He could've lectured/expounded to a newbie like me on his various observation tips like Virginia Rail call...why didn't he stop by like other birders :p He just passed by like last time!
Anyway, if indeed it was him, again, mucho honored by his brief yet august presence!
Forget Famosa, no luck on the Virginia Rail and PL reported a MCCOWN'S LONGSPUR along with CHESTNUT-COLLARED LONGSPUR at Fiesta Isl. Dog Run. Going there first thing in the morning of course(as usual, till like 8:40am, I have to watch women college tennis tournament at Barnes Tennis Center(mercifully near to Famosa and SD River at Robb Field, also to the Dog Run).
Gary Nunn reported Black-throated Blue Warbler, he's really finding all kinds of warblers lol. But saw that at Descanso last Fall, so Longspurs are priorities for me.
P.S. Tomorrow's match start at 10, so BTBW first, then to Dog Run I guess.
http://creagrus.home.montereybay.com/CAwhoPEL.html
fast-forward 30? years!
He could've lectured/expounded to a newbie like me on his various observation tips like Virginia Rail call...why didn't he stop by like other birders :p He just passed by like last time!
Anyway, if indeed it was him, again, mucho honored by his brief yet august presence!
Forget Famosa, no luck on the Virginia Rail and PL reported a MCCOWN'S LONGSPUR along with CHESTNUT-COLLARED LONGSPUR at Fiesta Isl. Dog Run. Going there first thing in the morning of course(as usual, till like 8:40am, I have to watch women college tennis tournament at Barnes Tennis Center(mercifully near to Famosa and SD River at Robb Field, also to the Dog Run).
Gary Nunn reported Black-throated Blue Warbler, he's really finding all kinds of warblers lol. But saw that at Descanso last Fall, so Longspurs are priorities for me.
P.S. Tomorrow's match start at 10, so BTBW first, then to Dog Run I guess.
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