Hi all, There was a juvenile Baird's Sandpiper in a restricted area of North Island Naval Air Station this morning at 11:00. Photo posted in the Miscellaneous...
I'm no expert either but I might be inclined to agree with you. Coopers and sharp-shinned hawks can be hard to tell apart though. Bill Miller Anaheim, CA ... ...
The best way to tell them apart is by the tail. The Cooper's Hawk has a rounded tail, the Sharp-Shinned Hawk is squared off... ... From: Bill Miller...
I keep going back and forth: using terminal tail shape on accipters for i.d can be sooooo confusing. The new tail feather coming in is squared off, so...
I had intended to bird the South Bay and Tijuana River Valley today but ended up cutting the trip short. I did manage to get to several locations and find a...
County Coordinators/Contributors: The Summer Season (1 June through 31 July) is ended, and we solicit reports for inclusion in the Southern California Region...
I should have gone with my first instinct. I was thinking red-shoulder hawk but then i talked myself out of it. Inthe field they always give themselves away...
Hi all, Weather forecast for San Diego Audubon's Salton Sea field trip tommorrow morning! 7:00am, 83deg (feels like 85), 60%hum, mostly sunny, light breeze....
While watching my grandson at his swimming lesson today, I spotted two Eurasian Collared-Doves near the intersection of Ivy and Prospect in Fallbrook. Offices...
Hi all again, I retain weatherman's rights when it comes to bird identification. I can be wrong! The weatherman's prediction has changed. Competing weather...
I went out this morning in hopes of finding recently reported birds around the Tijuana River Valley and at the River Estuary and near-shore waters where the...
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49 species were recorded at Batiquitos Lagoon today on the monthly bird count on Friday August 3rd, 2007. The next count will be on Friday September 7th. These...
I joined Ed Hall and Jim Zimmer at my bench from 6:30-10:00 this morning. Several other birders joined us later on for a while but left before 9:30. It was...
I check on the Booby colony on Middle Rock of the Coronado Is. Yesterday about 1 p.m. Found 35 Brown Boobies (Including an adult female on a nest). Two more...
Late this afternoon, August 4, Lea Squires, Matt Sadowski, and I saw a sandwich tern on the beach at North Island Naval Air Station. This is a restricted area...
Photos posted at the end of the miscellaneous folder: http://ph.groups.yahoo.com/group/SDBIRDS/photos/browse/cfb0 Matt Sadowski Chula Vista, CA [Non-text...
I was walking Silver Strand Beach this morning with two neighbors (non-birders). We didn’t have binocs but I started talking about the birds we were seeing....
Good Morning all, Apparently, a little secret has finally gotten out to the regular, common everyday birders in San Diego. On August 1 & 2, 2007, some men...
The newest updated downloadable version of the County checklist can be found at http://sdbirds.basiclink.com/san_diego_county_checklist.htm There is also other...
What kind of bird is shown on the San Diego Lexus "The Event" commercial? I have been puzzling over this for a few days .... can anyone give me some relief...
Mark Billings, Lea Squires, and I observed what was probably a hybrid Sandwich x Elegant Tern on a restricted beach of NAS North Island today. The bird was...
From about 930-1030 this morning Brian Foster & I monitored terns along Zuniga Beach & the base of Zuniga Jetty at North Island NAS - no sandwich tern was...
All, Just thought the group might be interested in some info on this species: http://www.audubon2.org/watchlist/viewSpecies.jsp?id=141 Take Care, Jay Keller, ...
Carol Manning and I saw two adult Reddish Egrets yesterday, 4 August, near the mouth of the Santa Margarita River on Camp Pendleton. Unfortunately, this area...
Barbara Carlson, Tom Blackman, Trent Stanley, and I headed offshore Sunday Aug. 5th, with the purpose of birding San Diego waters. I had planned to go n.w....
I observed Caspian, Elegant, and Forster's terns as well as other shorebirds today near Zuniga Point on NAS North Island (Restricted area) from 0940 to 1105...
Common Terns have been moving through in small numbers for at least the past two weeks. Today they broke triple digits with 170 mixed in with the Elegant Terns...
The "Allen's" hummers are still in our neighborhood in similar numbers, for 5 weeks now. However, while in the first week (July 4 - July 11) I saw mostly...
Good morning- I have tried (and failed) to find on the website any directions to the Salt Works mentioned in Phil Unitt's book. And Matt Sadowski mentioned...
