Thanks, Mary. Phil Phil Pryde philpinsd@cox.net sandiegoregionbook.com

Hi Geoff, Nathan, Bruce, Dan, Gary, and everyone, Thanks for all of your interesting input. Collectively all the input tells me there’s a simple answer to my original question, which was, “Did anyone

Hi Geoff, My “one second” interval was entirely a spur of the moment estimate - the calls were very quickly repeated and could easily have been less than a second. But I won’t rule out chipmunk, eithe

Sorry about the ambiguity in my email of last evening - I was mainly reaching out to those who had already gone to “the spot” to look for the Crossbills, which is about 1 1/2 miles down the Agua Dulce

This morning (Tues.), while looking for the mythological Red Crossbill (aka the toilet paper bird), I heard at a distance an incessant call that seemed to meet the requirements for a Saw-whet Owl. The

A friend just emailed me about a sighting, with close-up photo (below), of a Chukar a relative of his saw and photographed in the Crosby Estates area, which (I believe) is along the San Dieguito River

I arrived at Cosoy St. at 11:30 and was told by searchers there that the GWWA had not been seen all morning. I stayed until about 12:30 and the only warbler I saw was a consolation prize Orange-crown.

I birded the trail around Kumeyaay Lake this morning, and there were a few Vaux’s Swifts mixed in with the bug-snarfing swallow flock. Only warblers were Yellow, Wilson’s, OC, and a gazillion calling

I can add a bit to Nancy Christensen’s report from the Anza-Borrego desert area. Friday evening and Sat. morning I worked the area surrounding the ABDSP Visitors Center, and recorded 4 sparrow species

At approx. 11 a.m. today (1-24) a less-than-adult Glaucous-winged gull was well seen at Lake Murray. The location was Alvarado Bay (the first small bay on the left as you enter the park via Kiowa St.)

At Robb Field today at low tide around 1 p.m. there was nothing new (that I saw), but the Tricolored Heron was near the east end of the sand bar island, and a Lesser Yellowlegs was spotted in the mult

The Fort Rosecrans Varied Thrush put in 2-3 brief appearances between roughly 9:30 and 10:15 on Sunday morning, obligingly in the same place as previously reported, namely to the left of the by-itself

Apologies for this message being slightly off-topic, but this message was received by SDAS. If anyone might be interested in a little bird educating, please respond individually to Mr. Lietzke. Phil P

Since I live near Lake Murray, I went out this morning to see if I could find the Ridgway Rail reportred at (or near) Cowles Point yesterday. Here are the indecisive results. 1. Starting at the Restro

F everyone’s I: Regarding the presumptive return of the stow-away booby this evening: I went to the website that Justyn provided, and it only gives sailing and return times for upcoming trips, but jus

Does anyone know if the Liberty has gone out to sea today (Wed.), and if so, will it returning about 7 - 7:30 tonight? Phil Pryde San Diego

The last two days I’ve seen a Rufous Hummingbird in my back yard in San Carlos. At first I thought that was unlikely, but I checked in the Bird Atlas and discovered that early migrant RUHUs have been

I’m forwarding this as some SDFO members might be interested in participating, especially those who use eBird regularly. The Mission Dam region of the SD River might be one good spot to survey. Click

You can add one more name to the list of locations that is mind-blowingly crawling with migrants right now: the west basin of Kumeyaay Lake in Mission Trails Regional Park. I hiked around the west bas

From: Phil Pryde, San Diego, 1:52 p.m. April 9, 2018 A brief report on our SDAS Birdathon efforts on Friday. Sorry for the delayed report, but I was in Borrego Springs most of the day yesterday. Nothi