Hello birders,

This is a forward from Joan. Don reports a Bay-breasted Warbler and
Zone-tailed Hawk from Ventura County on Saturday. This might be of
interest to you chasers. Good luck.

Jamie C
jcwings@pronet.net

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From: Don DesJardin <dj@west.net>
Subject: Venco Birds

Knowing it was going to heat up, I went to the Ventura Sewer Ponds

early

this morning. Not much in the way of warblers. Only a few

Orange-crowned

and Yellow-rumped. Other birds of note were, 1 Merlin, 3 Cedar Waxwing,

2

Ring-necked Ducks, 1 White-faced Ibis (flying overhead), and 3 Soras. I

also saw a flock of at least 60+ Canada Geese flying east over the

mid-town

area. I did not see the Eastern Pheobe, that was reported seen near the

first large pond on Thursday.

I also went to Camino Real Park which was a little better warbler

wise.

Nothing of note along the barranca except a few Yellow-rumps,
White-crowned Sparrows, and Western Tanagers. At the extreme west end I

found "LERPS". There are a few trees infected and the Yellow-rumps were

very active on these trees. Other species of warblers seen were, 2
Townsend's, 5 Orange-crowned, 2 Yellow, and and 1 immature

Bay-breasted. I

observed this bird for about 30 minutes, feeding mostly in the dying

pine

trees along side of the 126 freeway. The upperparts were a dull olive

color

with no contrast between the head, back and rump. I didn't see any

distinct

streaking on the back or anywhere on the underparts. The underparts

were a

dirty white from the throat to the undertail coverts with a tinge of

buff

color on the flanks. The wings were slightly darker in comparison with

the

upperparts with two prominent and distinct white wing bars. Both the

bill

and legs were dark. It finally flew up into a large Sycamore tree and I

lost it.

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From: Don DesJardin <dj@west.net>
Subject: Venco Birds

I received an email from Brad Sillasen today saying that he had the
Zone-tailed Hawk over his place in Sisar Canyon between 11:30 and

12:00,

and again at 1:15. He called me at 2:15, and while we were talking the

bird

made another appearance. I got in the car and beat a path up there,
arriving at 2:45. I got out of the car and had taken just a few steps

when

I spotted bird gliding in from the north doing lazy circles and

eventually

coming directly overhead. It stayed in view for about 5 minutes and

then

drifted out of sight to the west.