I have updated the "San Diego County Avian Records 2002-2023" database through March 2023. As before, it can be found on the "Avian Resources" page of the Buena Vista Audubon Society website: https://

Yesterday at the Borrego Springs WSP we were listening to various bird calls/songs and decided for grins to see what Merlin would have to say. So we started the app and in a minute or so a thrasher st

Today we counted 328 migrant hawks. This evening (Friday April 7) we had hawks feeding on grasshoppers along DiGiorgio Rd (approximately 100 hawks) near Big Horn. Additionally we counted around 500 ha

Tera and I are looking at a Red-Necked Grebe, likely the one last seen at Shelter Island. It's in a group of Surf Scoters. Restricted access (Naval Base Point Loma) best seen from here: 32.6994571, -1

Two NECO together on the San Carlos Bay power lines now at 0856. Matt Sadowski

At 8:47am (April 6), Swainson's hawks in two fields began to kettle up. Twelve kettles formed with 200 hawks in a few of them. The final count was 1,244 Swainson's Hawks. The total number of Swainson'

Thursday morning there was an e-bird report with photo of an adult trumpeter swan at the east end of Lake Hodges near Escondido. I am there now, at 2:00 p.m.. to check the bird out and see if there's

My wife, Donna, and I observed fourteen Swainson's Hawks at Hellers Bend Preserve this morning. Time: 9:10. The kettle was moving due north. I believe the hawks spent the night in an old avocado grove

Thursday morning the 6th, the female Orchard Oriole that wintered at Crown Point along the fence line of Kendall Frost is still present. Three Gull billed Terns at Kendall Frost are at the northern li

16 SWHA kettled up over Murray and headed NW just W of Cowles Mtn a few min ago. Matt Sadowski

Today 644 Swainson's Hawks migrated NW from Borrego Springs. This evening (Wednesday April 5) we had a major event. After chasing very high hawks, they began to flow into the Date Farm on Borrego Vall

Hi, all, Rob and I just had a male Rose-breasted Grosbeak at the Alta Vista Botanical Gardens around 10:30 a.m in the eucalyptus trees near the Healing Herb Garden about here: N 33°12'36.2988" W 117°1

We've had hundreds of hawks in town all day (Monday April 3), feeding on grasshoppers. This evening we found additional hawks. The total number of hawks could well exceed 500. Hawks are roosting at th

Another Tufted Puffin has been found not very far offshore in San Diego County waters, this one photographed by a couple participants on a whalewatch trip on Sunday, 2 April, only 3-1/4 miles off Miss

Hello everyone! I live in the Seattle, Washington area and my family (me, husband, and 11-year-old son who is a very serious birder) is visiting Oceanside next week. I've been subscribed to this list

The Pigeon Guillemot at La Jolla Cove continues early Tuesday morning. Currently only a quarter of the way out between the bridge club building and Scripps Pier. Paul Lehman, San Diego Sent from AOL o

As of 10:00 a.m., the Pigeon Guillemot was drifting farther and farther into the cove and a bit farther away and getting more difficult to see from the bridge club building, so a better bet would prob

Hello All I am leaving Santa Ysabel for La Jolla Cove now (10:15) any postings about the Guillemot would be helpful. Cell # is 760-315-8743 Butch Carter Santa Ysabel, California

There is a pigeon guillemot in mostly alternate plumage, though not full, swimming in La Jolla Cove at 9:30 a.m., basically in a line from the bridge club building to about 3/4 of the way out scripps

The NECO is swimming with a foraging raft of about 50 DCCO on Murray this morning mid-lake. Matt Sadowski