This morning's (21 March) foul (or fowl?) weather grounded quite the collection of interesting waterbirds at inland bodies of water. In addition to the early and exceptional flock of 6 Sabine's Gulls

There are 6 SAGU in alternate plumage by the dam at Lake Murray. M. Sadowski

Inclement weather in spring (March-May) often "grounds" notable waterbirds on inland bodies of water. This morning, 20 March, at Sweetwater Reservoir there was a drake Surf Scoter, drake Red-breasted

Hello Birders, The San Diego Field Ornithologists is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Program: Nathan Goldberg will speak on “Islands and Mangroves, Forests and Beaches: Remote Birding throug

Several folks ventured offshore to the Nine-Mile Bank area off San Diego and La Jolla on the morning of 19 March and were rewarded with the first county record of a live Parakeet Auklet, some 12.5 mil

This evening 100+ Swainson's Hawks descended into the date farm as darkness approached 7pm. Tomorrow will be a rainy start for the day. In the past, hawks have gone to ground in the rain. I suspect th

Saturday morning 3/18/23 about 9:45 AM, there was a male Mountain Bluebird at Weston Park in the northwest part of Santee. Weston Park is in the new Weston subdivision west of Santee Lakes. Specific l

Greetings, We hope you can join us for the San Diego Field Ornithologist meeting on Tuesday, March 21, at 6:00 p.m. This will be a Zoom meeting – the link for the meeting will be sent out on Monday, M

Greetings! This morning, 15 march, at 1052 I had a good look at a LARK SPARROW through my dripping-wet window. Easily IDed with my 10X40 binoculars while it feed on seed I had scattered on the ground

Last Thursday I led a group of British birders around to some spots in the county. One of them showed me photos of a loon they could not identify that they had seen at Shelter Island. It was a red-nec

All, I am going to go to Lancaster for the tundra bean goose, to be there early in the morning any day from this Thursday through this Sunday. I have room in my car for 3 other people. Contact me off

Continues this morning at Robb Firld near the western most ball field. It’s near the white dumpster surrounded by chain link. Nancy Christensen Ramona A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It

This evening at 5pm hawks began to arrive very high. I believe the count may exceed 200 substantially. Unfortunately it looks like an early lift-off with wind to 10mph and higher at 7am. We will be cr

Seen earlier by an out of town birder whose name we didn't get- Thanks Redlands person! Refound with a group of horned larks on the softball field here: 32.755090,-117.244352 -- Mike and Tera

Jim Pawlicki refound the 1st-cycle SBIG on Murray this afternoon. N side of Kiowa p. lot. Matt Sadowski

For those possibly interested in looking through the thousands of black vented shearwaters for a manx or two, unfortunately the thousands of birds have shifted slightly north, but more importantly the

While sending out a couple text messages and composing my previous post, the shearwaters kept getting up and swirling around and landing again and totally mixing up, and I have yet to be able to refin

At 8:45 a.m. there are at least a couple thousand or more black vented shearwaters sitting in the water right off the beach in good light in Del Mar and I have at least one Manx shaerwater sitting in

Many of us recognize that the Merlin app's "Sound ID" makes mistakes. Certain errors occur regularly. It might be useful, especially for beginning birders, to be aware of common Merlin errors. Here ar

Today, Weds, the male "Eurasian" Green-winged Teal and male Eurasian Wigeon continued at J Street in Chula Vista. A female-type White-winged Scoter was right off the beach near the Camp Surf jetty wit