A merlin flew across the salt marsh and perched in a pine tree on the south side of the Morro Bay State Park marina today. Steve

Hello, I received a call tonight from Don Ryan here in Santa Maria. He spotted the wintering female Magnolia Warbler today at the Oceano Lagoon. He first observed it along the nature trail from the

Five black skimmers at the edge of the Morro Bay salt marsh today to the south of the State Park Marina. The peregrines at Morro Rock are very active- food exchanges, mating, frequently perched at

Hi Everyone-- On my way home from LA on Monday 3/6, I drove Soda Lake Road from highway 166 to highway 58 and took 58 out to the east. East of Maricopa, 166 is closed due to flooding. In the way of

Jamie....Interesting sighting. There are no previous SLOCo records of Lewis's Woodpecker in the Cuyama Valley. I checked Paul Lehman's Birds of Santa Barbara County and he also does not mention

While traveling west on Highway 166 heading back into Santa Maria from the Central Valley, I spotted a single Lewis' Woodpecker flycatching from the top snags of a dead oak right next to the highway.

Hi all, I got a new yard bird this stormy morning, but I'm not 100% sure what it was. (I live on Estero Ave. in Morro Bay.) I heard a quick call & saw two kingbirds at the back of my yard. They

SLOCo Birders (and others), It now the end of the winter reporting period for North American Birds and as the SLO County coordinator I solicit your reports of unusual and rare bird sightings for

Hello, I was over at the de Anza trail yesterday, leading a bird walk for the annual celebration of the trail. The birding was great! We observed at least 3 pairs of Wood Ducks up in the cottonwood

Mike.....Did the PS Flycatcher look the same as the one you saw in December? Just kidding. While this bird is in the same location and therefore may be the bird that wintered there, county records

Today at Cal Poly in the creek near the feed mill I refound the Pacific-slope Flycatcher that was first seen in December. I assume it was the same one. I saw it in the same tree anyway. If it's not

Reminder of the Brant field trip with John Roser this Sat., 4 March - meet at east end of Morro Bay State Park Marina parking lot at 11:30AM. Ted Pope tnbpope@... 547-0242

Sorry - forgot to mention John is doing this for the Morro Coast Audubon Society. Ted

Saturday, 4 March, John Roser is leading a field trip on which he will share his expertise on the Brant - a sea goose which migrates from Northern Alaska and Artic waters as far south as Baja

I am hoping someone can help me out. If I remember correctly, a Bullock's Oriole was reported at the Sweet Springs Nature Preserve in January during the Winter Bird Festival. I would like to

Bill and I had just turned right onto Hwy 1 from Grand Ave. in G.B. Sunday late morning, when Bill said in a frantic voice �my God, look at those birds��just before the car in front of us were

Hi all, I saw the adult bald eagle at Atascadero Lake again mid-afternoon today after not seeing it, but checking frequently, for about 3 weeks. It was in the same tall tree above 9576 Marchant

A group of Santa Barbara birders cruised the Cuyama area on Saturday and had a beautiful dark morph Ferruginous Hawk. The bird was in a large field on the north side of 166 between Highway 33 and

Yesterday afternoon, Feb. 17, had 2000+ gulls on the beach at the mouth of Pismo Creek. 98% at least were California Gulls. The flock did have quite a few 1st year Herrings and a few Thayer's gulls

Cal, I must have missed your first post as your post below seems to answer someone's response. I keep status and distributional data for birds in San Luis Obispo County. There are only five