*** Species Summary: - Tropical Kingbird (1 report) - Hooded Oriole (1 report) - MacGillivray's Warbler (1 report) --------------------------------------------- Thank you for subscribing to the

On Wednesday during weekly survey at Sedgwick Reserve Guy Tingos and I had a tagged Bald Eagle. Best guess at the number on the tag is 59, research on line indicates the bird was fledged June 29,

This afternoon (4:38pm) the Short-eared Owl was on the west side of More Mesa. A photographer pushed it off its spot, and it flew farther toward the ocean. Same time a Barn Swallow flew west to

Hi, Florence and listers, Ocean Park was similar... aside from a few Red-winged Blackbirds, a very distant Great Egret and distant Great Blue Heron, the only other birds present seemed to be a

With the weather due to change significantly for the next week or so, I headed up to La Cumbre Peak this morning. It was very quiet, almost no birds. No Pygmy Nuthatches, no Steller's Jay, no

*** Species Summary: - Tufted Duck (2 reports) - Broad-billed Hummingbird (1 report) - Short-eared Owl (2 reports) - Yellow-bellied Sapsucker (2 reports) - Bullock's Oriole (1 report) - Scott's

Yesterday, I tried for several hours to find the American Redstart reported from Atascadero Creek without success. I know at least two other birders also tried to find it, even walking down in the

*** Species Summary: - Common Ground Dove (2 reports) - Short-eared Owl (1 report) - Red Crossbill (1 report) - Baltimore Oriole (1 report) - Scott's Oriole (1 report) - MacGillivray's Warbler (1

What must be the same male Baltimore Oriole was tonight at Heath Ranch Park a short distance from Santa Monica Creek. I found the oriole while scoping the enormous, white-blooming eucalyptus in the

I started walking the stretch of road next to the eucalyptus trees at the north end of the public road around 7:15 a.m. yesterday, and did not hear or see any orioles until 8:15, when we suddenly had

It might be the time of day, but both of them were quite elusive when we were there. I (and David, Marge, and Don) spent at least an hour on the 100-yard stretch of the road below the gate and the

I also walked from the reservoir to the top of the road at 9:30ish, and saw neither orioles nor ground doves! Seems that maybe earlier morning might be better? But I had 45 species nonetheless,

I had a flock of at least 9 Red Crossbills this mornings at the Ortega Ridge pines above Summerland. The birds were moving around in the tops of the conifers on the south side of Ortega Ridge Road

I spent about an hour at the top of Farren Rd this morning along with Marge and Don Thornton and David Blue. Two Common Ground-doves were on the avocado orchard side of the road, and we saw two of

*** Species Summary: - Tufted Duck (2 reports) - Common Ground Dove (2 reports) - Short-eared Owl (1 report) - Bullock's Oriole (1 report) - Scott's Oriole (2 reports) - American Redstart (1

In 4 stops along Farren Rd at which we leisurely scoped, we did not come up with the Scott's Orioles. But we did see 3 Common Ground Doves in 3 different places. Notes on checklist here:

Linus, I'd be happy calling that a Glaucous-winged; they can be quite variable. But who knows what genes it has floating around! Hugh Ranson

All: I birded Colson Canyon this morning. On the way to Colson, I stopped on Tepusquet Road to marvel at about 110 Wild Turkeys; males strutting their best stuff and females looking very unimpressed.

I went to Tufty's (Goleta Ranch) Mobile Home Park yesterday and had a look at a few gulls there. One, I'm pretty sure, was a Glaucous-winged, but another one was more ambiguous to a gull novice like

Surfbird with Black Turnstones on breakwater wall near Yacht club. 10:40am Jay Bishop