As a eastern counterpoint to the recent Pt. Loma sighting, i had a lone Grey-headed junco at W. Heise park on the 31st. I haven't really birded in the San...
Hello Everyone, The Wetlands & Wildlife Care Center needs your help. Could you please email me all known locations of Heron colonies, and if you could also...
I almost hesitate in posting this, since I didn't get any photos and due to my unfamiliarity with the species. But, after checking my notes with published...
Not likely chase-able, but this morning around 9 am Joe Barth & I observed a short-eared owl fly in from over the ocean, fly up the beach, & land among dunes...
Hi, all! Birded the Point Loma area this morning; highlights include PINK-SIDED and SLATE-COLORED JUNCOS on the western side of Fort Rosecrans just north of...
A Tricolored Heron made an appearance at the SD River Flood Control Channel at Robb Field today (11/02) at sunset. I put a photo of it in the Fall 2006 Misc....
On Wednesday 02 November at about 0615 there were Golden-crowned kinglets near the Bennington Monument (The Obelisk) at Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery....
A call from Doug Aguillard a few minutes ago made us look up the Tide Table..High tides for the Imperial Beach area are highest on Sunday and Monday..Good luck...
I've found the following links useful when I needed tidal information: Scripps Institute: <http://scilib.ucsd.edu/sio/tide/piertide.html> Related links on this...
Here are the tide schedules for the next two days at Imperial Beach; if the table format is broken up, see the web page below and check Imperial Beach in the...
Matt Heindel showed Guy Mc Caskie and others a probable winter- plumaged male Lapland Longspur in the middle of the Dairy Mart sod farm this morning. He had...
There is a Lapland Longspur found by Guy M. and Matt S. this morning at the Sod farm on Dairy Mart Road Marjorie Hastings Spring Valley,CA. mhast27@... I...
The non-migratory subspecies of Allen's has been spreading down the coast from O.C. Several years ago a bander told me they were resident at Quail Gardens,...
Got back yesterday night from two weeks in Borneo, slept off the jet lag, and made it to the Dairy Mart sod farms at around 11:30am. Searched for two hours but...
This morning (Saturday) around 10a.m., as I was crossing the Cabrillo bridge, I noticed four or five birders with spotting scopes and bins keying in on a bird...
Doug Nail spotted two Greater White-fronted Geese flying over the the Palomar Audubon Society group at Kit Carson Park today (11/4). They landed at the main...
I could not relocate the longspur at the Dairy Mart sod farm between 3:30 and 4:45 PM this afternoon (11/04). However, there was a western Palm Warbler near...
It's now November, and a gorgeous adult male Allen's Hummingbird, first seen on Oct 7, continues at the previously described location in Carmel Valley (post...
Hardly unique birds, but for you distribution trackers: had a Green Heron at Doane Pond this morning - - - at the maximum elevation for the species according...
There was fair activity offshore Oceanside Beach this morning with small flocks of scoters and loons passing by. More unexpected was a flock of 14 Brants....
The Lapland Longspur was at the south end of the Dairy Mart Sod Farms at 0730 associating with the flock of American Pipits. It liked to sit on the pipes. Look...
For the past 3 days the beach area of Leucadia (Neptune Ave) has been enjoying a Merlin, a Red-Shouldered Hawk, an Osprey and a roving flock of eight - count...
I've noted recent postings regarding sightings of Allen's Hummingbird in North County. These birds, as others have suggested, may very well be the vanguard of...
Royce and all, Both records are interesting. Last year I had a Great Blue Heron at Doane and in 1997 a juvenile harrier flew over me near Round Valley (elev....
Barbara Carlson .and a group of birders,just called from the TiJuana River They had a Short-eared Owl flying around.. Marjorie Hastings Spring Valley,CA. ...
San Diego bird-watchers, Checked out Seacoast Drive this morning at high tide, looking for Nelson's Sharp-tailed Sparrow. No such sparrows, but point-blank...
On Friday, 27 October 2006, at Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery, I saw a Clay-colored Sparrow on the west side at the dip and an adult White-throated Sparrow...