Early this afternoon, Weds the 13th, Matt Sadowski and Lea Squires found a female-type BLACK-THROATED GREEN WARBLER in Greenwood Cemetery. The bird was mostly traveling on its own, and it started out

Maybe a Ferruginous hawk? Sonja Beeve, Vista

I'll post some rarity photos later but for now here's a map of the known foraging area: https://mapsengine.google.com/map/edit?mid=zqg3OZ0AdqmQ.kaYdYrlk-Xow -- Matt Sadowski Chula Vista, CA

Dear Lisa, Sonja and SanDiegoRegion birders: My bet is that this is the same leucistic Red-tailed Hawk seen last January (my 1-17-13 report to SDBirds) in the same general area. The description

I forgot to mention that the warbler favors a certain species of tree to forage in. I don't know what it's called but they are mostly 15-40 foot trees that have tiny

Two winter residents have returned to Santee Lakes. I saw my first Belted Kingfisher and a Spotted Sandpiper on my walk this afternoon. Both were on the crosswalk between Lakes 2 and 3. -- John

I uploaded a bunch of rarity photos from the past few weeks: http://www.flickr.com/photos/68911779@N00/ Short-eared Owl, 10/20, South SD Bay Le Conte's Sparrow,

Birding Guajome Park Tuesday looking for sapsuckers, I finally found a red-naped sapsucker in the eucs across from the campground bathrooms. It was quite birdy Tuesday morning. The list below is

the Black-thr Green Warbler at Greenwood Cemetery continues Thursday morning near the obelisk at 8 a.m. Paul Lehman, san diego Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE Smartphone.

While looking for the scarlet tanager SW of the dog park in Balboa Park this morning, I saw (my) FOS flocks of Cedar Waxwings. About 35-40 birds were working the tops of the Eucs in two separate but

I spent this morning from 7 to 11:30 birding Greenwood Cemetery with Marcie Mason, Char Glacy and others including Barbara Carlson, Dave Povey, and Alex. The species are noted in the order they were

After Greenwood today I had a Ross's Goose on the J St. mudflats on SD Bay. Visibility on the water was poor so only gave the scoters a quick scan. A Short-eared Owl continued in the saltworks

Scarlet Tanager shots: http://www.flickr.com/photos/68911779@N00/ I added the location of the SCTA to the map below: Greenwood map updated -- Matt SadowskiChula Vista, CA

This afternoon I poked around Ramona a bit. Best birds of the day were two burrowing owls. The owls were in the Black Canyon Rd area, but I won’t give further details about location to avoid any

Directions please! Never been there before. Would like to check it out on Saturday. Thanks,Sonja Beeve-Vista

All, Yesterday evening, I found a SWAMP SPARROW at Lindo Lake. The bird was among many LINCOLNS SPARROWS and a couple SONG SPARROWS at the NW corner of the dry side of the lake. All these birds were

From about 8-8:35AM, several birders observed the Black-throated Green Warbler in the circle with the obelisk, mostly in the tree north of the obelisk behind the "Putnam" headstone. It moved around

A single Swamp sparrow continues in the NW corner of the dry lake (east) at Lindo Lake. The bird is in mottled basic plumage with faint blurry streaks on a grey breast. Flanks, wings and tail have

At the Cove from 12:30-2:30 p.m. Strong winds from the south, 15-25 mph Mediocre light. Highlight was a seemingly all-black alcid leading a flock of surf scoters, obviously smaller than the scoters,

I heard from Lea Squires that she and another birder had the Scarlet Tanager at Greenwood this morning in the little courtyard E of the entrance to the Jewish building (same place as yesterday).