Friday morning at 7:00 a.m. there's a Bank Swallow roosting with Rough-wingeds and Cliffs in the dead twigs on the middle pond at Dairy Mart, viewable from the only cut in the vegetation halfway down

Don Robertson has an interesting write up here of the failings of using the jehl scale for an unintended purpose of determining hybrids vs “pure” frazeri

OK, I’ve had time to compile the many submissions (actually only one) of Jehl Scale ratings on the bird. Due to confidentiality, I am not going to disclose the author without his permission, but I

Did everyone already note Tom Ingram's photo of an (ex-) acorn woodpecker in Audubon's magazine's 2021 Audubon Photography Awards issue? There was a La Jolla peregrine in the photo as well. Lisa

Did everyone already note Tom Ingram's photo of an (ex-) acorn woodpecker in Audubon's magazine's 2021 Audubon Photography Awards issue? There was a La Jolla peregrine in the photo as well. Lisa

My wife and I observed two adult Reddish Egrets at the mouth of the San Luis Rey River this morning at 0835. One individual showed much brighter reddish coloration on the neck. The river mouth is

I was shopping at the Home Depot at W. 9th and W. Valley Parkway, Escondido, when I heard the distinct call of a Red-breasted Nuthatch from some nearby pine trees that border 9th Ave.. I had a brief

This morning (7/12/21) at 8:45, an adult, male YELLOW-HEADED BLACKBIRD was foraging on the lawn in the nprtheastern section of Crown Point. I returned at 9:40 and it was still there. Photos later on

A trip offshore to the 30-Mile Bank and "The Corner" in San Diego County waters on Sunday the 11th, produced a total of ca. 9 COOK'S PETRELS, 8 at The Corner (32-33 mi offshore) and 1 bird much closer

The black-and-white oystercatcher flew by the sea watch at La Jolla this morning, Saturday, at 5:56 a.m. in loose company with all three of the black oystercatchers that have been here for a long

Here’s a link to a Flickr album with Mandy Etpison’s photos: https://www.flickr.com/photos/62366066@N02/shares/37cUc2 David Trissel San Diego, CA

Based on the fine extensive series of photos taken of today's (9 July) oystercatcher at La Jolla by Dean Budd, Jonathan Casanova, John Dumlao, Mandy Etpison, and Barbara Wise, among others,

OK, since it’s the summer doldrums and we have nothing better to do anyway, let’s have some fun with the Oystercatcher found this morning by John Dumlao and then subsequently photographed by a few

Anthony, Thanks for pointing this out. I've merged the two hotspots. If you, or anyone, comes across needed edits to a hotspot name or location, or if you find a redundancy like this, you can email me

Question, I am currently (07/09/2021) sitting at Woodglen Vista Park in Santee, what appears to be a severely under birded park. While looking up the data I noticed two hotspots for the same park,

The American or hybrid oystercatcher was still present as of 8:30 a.m. on rocks with a Black Oystercatcher, now a third of a mile, approximately, south of Children's Pool in La Jolla. Obviously the

Acting as a messenger, David Trissel and Dean Budd and possibly others had an American-type Oystercatcher at La Jolla Cove this morning around 6:30 a.m. and soon thereafter. After a while it flew

I took a non birder friend offshore in hopes of finding a Blue Whale, Wednesday. No luck on the whale. A Buller's Shearwater moving north over the San Diego Trough at about 20 nautical miles west of

I've modified the footer/signature for all emails sent to San Diego Region Birding to include links to Unitt's "San Diego County Bird Atlas" and Lehman's "San Diego County Avian Records Database

Dear Andrew, You’re welcome! Subspecies stelleri from the Pacific Northwest has the blackish parts of the plumage a considerably deeper charcoal black than the slate gray of subspecies