Hello fellow birders, The BVAS sponsored August pelagic trip aboard the 80ft. Legacy out of Seaforth Landing is this Saturday. The trip is booked full and has a waiting list, as does the Sept. trip.

Today, Aug 10th, I ventured offshore aboard the Legacy for a quick jaunt on one of their cheap midweek whale-watching trips (I believe Justyn made a post about these a few weeks ago, so if you're

Today, Aug 8th, there is a Neotropic Cormorant at the lower lagoon in the Safari Park in San Pasqual Valley. This could potentially be the same bird that frequented this same lagoon in the spring of

For the past 2-1/2 years I have been working ona "San Diego County Avian Database 2002-2022." With assistanceprovided by Guy McCaskie and Phil Unitt, and also with input from manyadditional San Diego

This morning while doing the Torrey Pines State Reserve bird survey, Kathy Estey and I saw two very young Yellow-crowned Night-Herons in the Los Penasquitos Lagoon. One was just east of the railroad

As of August 6th, I have found juvenile shorebirds across the board to be late and in low numbers so far this fall. The first species to arrive, as is typical, back in the third week of July (a bit

The male Mexican Duck is still present, unsurprisingly, at the upper end of Lower Otay Lake. Same MO as previous mornings, so far staying out on the open water west of all the snags, viewed from

Birders, I am very excited to finally see this long-awaited development in eBird in regard to treatment of exotic species. News

The Scarlet Tanager showed up again today at around 5:35pm in the tall eucalyptus above the picnic table. It stayed high up in the tree, seen by m.obs., until at least 6:00 when I left. It did not

As many of you know, there has been a cormorant (or two??) of interest, roosting on the power lines near the mouth of San Dieguito Lagoon in Del Mar with a group of Double-cresteds, since late June.

The Scarlet Tanager is still present an hour later at 4:30 p.m. today in the two eucalyptus trees on either side of the green picnic table that's immediately to the north northwest of the drinking

At 3:33 p.m. Wednesday, the male scarlet tanager started calling from the eucalyptus trees right over the picnic table immediately northwest of the fountain, where it has been seen before as well. It

Dear friends, If it was wearing an orange band, the Laysan Albatross Gary mentioned was almost certainly from Guadalupe Island. On 16 March of this year, Jami Besecker found a Laysan Albatross

Six of us made an offshore trip in San Diego County waters Sunday 31 July 2022 in search of birds. We made the usual east-west journey from San Diego Bay to The Corner, approximately 30 miles west of

On Tuesday, 2 August, the male Mexican Duck continues at Lower Otay Lake, in the exact same area near the dead trees where it frequented over the weekend. The most common landbird migrant currently

County Coordinators/Contributors: The Nesting Season (1 June through 31 July 2022) is ended, and we solicit reports for inclusion in the Southern California Region of NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. Reports

Mark, Thanks for sharing your link and photo. While Peter Pyle's input would be invaluable, I get the impression that this bird is in its second year and is currently molting. As prebasic molt in

Good evening, I went down on a stakeout at 3:30 to look for the Scarlet Tanager. The bird showed at 4:19 and again at 5:37 at the fountain described by Paul Lehman in a Previous e-mail. Both times

The Scarlet Tanager is showing very well presently, it came in to drink at 5:37 PM again and is still in view in the neighboring Eucalyptus as of 6:00 PM. Nathan Goldberg North Park

Today, Monday afternoon, Mark Stratton photographed the adult male scarlet tanager returning to drink at the leaky drinking fountain as described in my earlier post today, at Morley Field. He had it