Hi All, I received a phone call from John Salyer in Vandenberg Village in Lompoc. He reports that 5 Great-tailed Grackles spent the morning across the street from his home yesterday morning, perching

Bob Smith and I birded the ponds on VAFB this morning for nearly 4 hours. Great weather and several small flocks of birds. We did not find Brad's Black-throated Green Warblers, but we did find a Wilso

Hi, all! In the spirit of Joan Lentz's recent suggestion, I submit the following from my outpost in Los Olivos. Saturday morning a walk up Foxen Canyon Road from the 154 end produced these birds: Less

Hi all Got a phone call this morning from a woman who lives in Mission Canyon. She admits to not being a "great" birder, but she has a field guide and notices birds. She gave me a description of what

There is an obviously injured sharp-shinned hawk in my yard this morning (Sunday 9:30). I can't get closer than 15 feet, but the bird can barely fly. Any suggestions? Peter A. Dullea pdullea@... pdull

In the suggested spirit of sharing... Lake Cachuma this morning had all the usual stuff in good numbers; we birded first from the campground looking west (0630 @ 40F), and then stopped at the Bradbury

Apologies for cross-postings. The initial Cachuma CBC will be held Wednesday, December 29, in the Santa Ynez valley. It is mid-week this year to avoid conflicts with Christmas Day and with the Santa B

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Hi Folks, Morgan Ball and I got a visual on a Burrowing Owl on the west end of the San Marcos Foothills this afternoon, Sunday, 31 October. The bird was flushed from the same patch of Coastal Sage Scr

Hello All This morning I spent some quality time birding the VAFB ponds. The level of activity remains fair. I was able to sort through a couple of decent flocks that produced: 2 Hermit Warblers, many

Just information about the hawk. The first confirmed sighting of Broad-winged Hawk was November 4, 1995, by Brad Schramm. Gene Lynch

The Ferruginous Hawks continue to roost on the southside of Lompoc again this year. They are in a large Torrey Pine at the SW corner of S C St and E. Olive Ave. in Lompoc. They are there about a half

These birds were reported on Sunday at 1 p.m. from the Bird Refuge. Being that I don't know these people, I asked for more details. Here are the details as well as the directions for find the birds. K

Hopefully this will be a good year for irruptive species? A Pine Siskin was on a thistle sock in my yard this morning. John Ayres

Dear sbcobirders, Oh, no. I hope I haven't created a monster with this poll thing! The way this was supposed to work was each subscriber can access a web site (the link address was sent with the origi

Patrick McNulty makes a good point about individual discussions raised by the egroups postings would tend to isolate the "top" birders from the rest of us. One of the major attractions of listservs su

I say hoorah for the elitist snob, hoorah for the little guy, three cheers for the weekender, hoorah for anal retentive Don't forget the" been there,done that" crowd. Personally, the thought of someon

La Purisima AS could use some guidance to identifying the "don't miss" locations in the new Cachuma CBC, especially from those who helped with the test count last January. Jim Greaves sent some good i

SBCoBirders: First of all, I agree absolutely with Dave Compton. I would prefer to use my mail server to "Reply to Sender" if I wish, or "Reply to All" with just a click of the button. Contrary to the

Jamie, First, thanks for all the great work you have done to get this list up and going. It's been wonderful. Second, since "The Poll" messages are already appearing on the list, I'd like to add one m