Hi All: The past couple weeks I've been home, a fairly constant stream of swallows has gone by the house here in AG, as is typical for this time of year. Tree Swallows predominate, Violet-greens are

Last December (1999) while visiting Palm Canyon at the outskirts of PalmSprings, I photographed an unusual hummingbird at one of the feeders. There were many Anna's and Costa's Hummingbirds. The bird

The male Yellow-headed Blackbird is still hanging out around my house in the 1100 block of 13th, in Los Osos. I saw it early Saturday and then not again until this afternoon. It must be cruising

Eight snow geese grazing in the Morro Bay salt marsh the last two days. Steve

Staci Thompson saw a yellow-headed blackbird on Monday the 13th at 17th St. in Los Osos. Perhaps this is the rambling neighborhood bird Mike Stiles reported. Snow geese still at the M.B. salt marsh

Gloria Rasmussen saw a yellow-headed blackbird at the Audubon Overlook (4th St. in Los Osos) on Thursday. 90 white pelicans were soaring high over Morro Bay this morning. The Morro Rock peregrines are

Not sure if a message I wrote earlier this week got posted (my copy never got mailed to me), so here it is again: Yellow-headed blackbird was also seen last Monday on 17th. St. in Los Osos by Staci

Mike Stiles and I birded the northeastern part of the county this morning. From Atascadero we drove east on Hwy 41 to Shandon where we birded the county park. Just the usual White-crowned

Greetings SLO birders. Nice to find a small & local place to post occasional reports and weekly summaries from Point Piedras Blancas. The Southwest Fisheries Science Center (NOAA/NMFS, La Jolla)

Taking advantage of a clear and sunny morning, I walked from my house onMoonstone Beach Dr., Cambria uphill on Weymouth St. to the trails windingthrough the forest on the C-T Ranch (vicinity of the

Hi Today my wife, Cher, and I found the Magnolia warbler in the same area described by Jamie Chavez last week, campsites 70 and 71. In the same trees there were a few Yellow rumps and Townsend's

Greetings to all: Was on the Carrizo Plains all day Saturday. Lots of the usual birds and raptors. One merlin, one prairie falcon, one ferruginous hawk, one northern harrier, one black-shouldered

Hello, On Saturday, March 18, 8 a.m., I decided to take a hike up Pine Mt., Atascadero. We parked at the cemetery and just after getting out of the car we heard a Northern Pygmy-Owl calling. We

Hi SLOBirders, I'm thinking of camping out on the Carizzo Plain. Can anyone tell me if there are any places set up for camping either on the Plain or nearby? We'll be coming up from LA and entering

3/20, Tom Edell writes: interest down Actually, I've only seen one, late Saturday afternoon (3/18). It zinged in really close and back and forth for a minute or so. So close and fast I had a

This has come together more or less at the last minute, but there are a few spots open for a unique birding trip to the Work Ranch this Saturday - 25 March. The leader will be Mike McGee. The Work

Hello all, Karen Clarke has taken two photos of an incredibly strange hummingbird from Palm Canyon. I have posted the pictures on my web site. Go to: http://www.calpoly.edu/~mstiles/slobird.html and

Hello, I checked out Atascadero Lake today after school looking for Purple Martins. I didn't see any martins but there was one Mute Swan adult. Roger Zachary

Hi Everyone-- You're right, that's a very strange hummingbird. The growth at the base of the bill looks pretty grim (cancer or pox, but I've never heard of pox in hummingbirds); perhaps the growth is