The Wetlands & Wildlife Care Center is releasing the American Avocet tomorrow, Friday, March 2nd, 2007 at 11:30am. Meet at the Wetlands & Wildlife Care...
Hi Birders Today, Nick and I along with Paul Weers cruised around Orange County and spent the day at the following locations for a pleasant day of birding. ...
Group, I'm posting below a message I got from Bryan Box.... please direct your reply directly to him as he is not on OrangeCountyBirding. Thanks Joel Weintraub...
We saw the following birds Saturday afternoon, March 3rd, while on the Sea & Sage Minus Tide Boat Trip at Upper Newport Bay: Eared Grebe Horned Grebe Western...
Hello all, Glenn and I spent much of the weekend photographing birds in Tewinkle Park in Costa Mesa. We saw the same birds the Freemans did (and in retrospect,...
There were a couple of Mute Swans at Upper Newport Bay this morning. This is the first time I've seen them there. A photo is placed in the miscellaneous album....
Yesterday at Laguna Niguel RP we had a good turnout of people hoping to see the Swamp Sparrow. With a little luck and persistence we were able to get good...
The mute swans seen yesterday were there again at UNB, other than that it was a very warm, very quiet morning. The cottonwoods were shedding fuzz that looked...
Thick fog enveloped the park when I got there but the Santa Ana came up and cleared the air and gave good views of a pair of Hooded Mergansers, an Eurasian...
In addition to the birds mentioned by Rick, there were 1 or 2 Ring-necked Ducks there as well. I posted a photo by Steve Smith in the Misc Photo Folder. It...
Had some time this afternoon to visit the coast and bird for the first time since last fall. As always, it is such a treat to be at Bolsa Chica. Bolsa: Saw...
To follow up on Peyton Cook's message about the Swamp Sparrow at Laguna Niguel RP, I followed up that bird with a look through the pines in Yosemite Park which...
I just received word from a visiting teacher from back east who will be flying in to Orange County tomorrow (Tuesday). She wants very much to find some kind...
After 3 days of trying to find the swamp sparrow I finally saw it on Friday, March 9th. It was in the exact location reported last week where the creek meets...
From the map in today's OC Register it looks like the hills just outside of Santiago Oaks RP were in the burn area. Very disappointing if you enjoyed hiking...
... Does ... Dumb of me not to think of the internet. Got their phone number from the parks website. The park is closed. There was fire damange all the way...
Eric, A great resource for you to use here in Orange County is "The Birds of Orange County, Status and Distribution" by Hamilton & Willick. It will tell you...
Eric, Since you asked where to find owls rather than where to find a book, I'll take a different approach to answering. We've had a burrowing owl at the north...
Owls are neat animals. I think that's what got me into biology. Owl pellet analysis is now part of many elementary school science programs. I can appreciate...
Lots of good birds today highlighted by my first Hooded Oriole of the year at the NW corner of Serrano Park in Lake Forest, which is near Peachtree Raod near...
Hello All. Some birds of note from the weekend. Tucker Wildlife Sanctuary: Lark Sparrow (3/17) Golden-crowned Sparrow (3/17 & 3/18) Fox Sparrow (3/17 & 3/18) ...
Hi Birders Harris Sparrow at 1 pm at El Dorado Park Long Beach. Wonderful looks of Harris Sparrow with WCSP and HOFI on ground. It stayed about 5 min. then...
Just a reminder that El Dorado Park is in LA County, not Orange County. It's up to Bob and Joel whether to allow this thread here, but these posts should go to...
After the original post on this Sparrow, I sent a private message to the poster from the Yahoo groups post site telling the poster that I would allow ...
This morning, about 8 AM, I was driving south on Lakeview and stopped at the light at La Palma in east Anaheim. The river was ahead of me, the railroad tracks...
This afternoon I went over to the Santa Ana River Lakes to check out the herons and egrets, most of which were feasting at the fish-cleaning station. Some...
Weird contrast today, Bolsa was very quiet and Upper Newport very birdy. Upper Newport: Saw a Long-Billed Curlew (Not Whimbrel) on a mud flat across from a...
