steve shunk, his 2 clients Anni Stockly and myself were the first shift yesterday friday from 630 till 9 1 WHITE-WINGED SCOTER big push of SURF SCOTER and PACIFIC LOONS took some grainy photos

The Swamp Sparrow at Lindo Lakes was very cooperative this morning about 11:30. It flew into a very small isolated tree and posed briefly at the location posted yesterday. Jan Nordenberg San Diego

Ran Into Alex A. this morning while Camille and I were looking for the Tanager. We exchanged favors. I found the Scarlet for Alex and Alex found the Black-throated Green Warbler for us. Both birds

I seawatched at La Jolla from about 7-10 this morning. Winds were light, light was good. Guy and Paul were there before me, Matt Sadowski remained after I left. I don't believe anything of particular

I was called to confirm, and viewed a male Broad-billed Hummingbird today (16 Nov 2013), in a private gated community in Borrego Springs. This bird was discovered yesterday. Bob Theriault / Borrego

Today, Saturday the 16th, started at La Jolla, where Brennan M. has summarized many of the highlights there from a birdy morning. I'd also add that we saw 25+ Red Phalaropes, and that the juvenile

Katie McLaughlin and I birded the TRV and Rohr Park early this morning (11/15/13). Down at The Sod Farm we found a guy standing in the dirt access road looking at something humped just inside the

Paul L. was nice enought to point out in the first pic titled interesting sea bird i called a pacific loon a red throated loon reviewing the other photos I noticed another similar error oh well

The SDAS "Long" walk at the Salt Works provided 64 identified species with an appearance by 1 Short-eared owl and 2 Cackling geese (a single bird on the sand bar on the Bay just south of the channel

I was one of the people scouring Greenwood Cemetery for rarities this morning. I successfully found the Black-throated Green Warbler, and was able to get photos that show what I think are the critical

Sorry – missed including the links to the Black-Throated Green Warbler from this

An additional note on the B. hutchinsii with the blue collar: In an interesting reference paper Elias E. linked me to, blue collars of the type seen on the Salt Works bird are on often the Aleutian

Katie McLaughlin and I recorded a Swainson's Thrush near the water drip at B&B Garden off Hollister in TRV this morning. Also of note were several common groud doves and a hermit thrush. The Northern

Today at Lake Murray: Horned Grebe and juvenile Glaucous-winged Gull. Latter present since 11/1. Eared Grebes also present, plus other gull species. Enter at Kiowa Drive entrance on south side of

After hearing a 3rd hand report of the above bird, I shot down to the main pond at Dairy Mart and just before I got there, the 2nd hand reporter, Jennifer Baldwin, had refound the bird. The bird flew

An adult male Baltimore Oriole perched atop my neighbor's palm tree briefly this morning. -- ====================== Sara Baase Mayers Point Loma (San

Sorry!! I meant Bullock's Oriole! -- Sara

I never miss an opportunity to look at turkey vultures and it paid off today. There was a zone-tailed hawk in Vista at 2 pm today. It was soaring like a tv but as it glided downward over Vista Village

I checked again at noon and failed to find the flycatcher. I did have a Tropical Kingbird show up there, so it’s all good! Also saw the American Redstart on Tesoro Grove Rd (across from Nestor

On Sunday the 17th, Guy, Barbara, and I traveled over to the Borrego Valley, in part to look at "Sage" Sparrows in light of the recent taxonomic split. Other species of note seen were few, though they