Happy Holidays, SLOCO Birders! I was grateful to be out in yet another glorious day of perfect weather for birding this morning with Marlin Harms and Spencer Riffle. While I initially thought the smal

Marlin Harms ID'd a Black-legged Kittiwake with Spencer Riffle and me at 11:30 this morning in a mud flat on the ocean-side of Pismo Creek. This is only about a half-mile south of Pismo Pier. The bird

Hi SLOCO Birders - I only chip in with a few comments and gratitude for the helpful and friendly birders I encountered this morning around the Lagoon at Oceano State Park. I was pleased to have a quic

Hi SLOCO Birders - First of all, thanks to the leaders who put this together, especially Mike Stiles for herdin' the cats of this operation and making all the arrangements and reservations. Also a sho

Seen approx 100 yards south of harbor entrance on sandspit breakwater by the Pelagic Birders at 7:20 am. Mike Bush The Black Pearl

Hi, SLOCO Birders - I was pleasantly surprised by a close view of an immature Cooper's Hawk from our Camp at Morro Strand State Beach - seen on a post in Site B - south of the first restroom building

Hi again, SBCO Birders - I believe I let the piercing yellow eye and the shortness of tail in David's posted photo to lead me to Brewer's Blackbird. I overlooked the tall, long-legged stance and the l

Hi SLOCO Birders - A late afternoon walk in the GREAT weather on the beach at Morro Strand yielded *only three* ELEGANT TERNS, after seeing as many as 300+ for most of the past three or four weeks. Ho

Hi David - It appears you've found a "leucistic" Brewer's Blackbird, male. Earlier this summer I found a similarly white-flecked American Crow. You can see the crow at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/bu

Hi SLOCO Birders - While Marlin and others were watching many Humpbacked Whales and sheerwaters just offshore, the beach was buzzing with birds, too. The Elegant Tern flock must now number 500, and th

Hi SLOCO Birders - Following Will's and Marlin's posts earlier this week regarding the new arrivals of terns to Morro Strand State Beach, I went out on these past three sunny afternoons to take a look

Hi SLOCO Birders - As a brief "pre-quel" to Will's post on the very recent influx of terns to Morro Strand State Beach, I've been sorting photos taken here over the past two weeks of some shorebirds a

Hi SLOCO Birders - I just had a very quick but definitive look at the CRESTED CARACARA at 6:50PM. Jeanne was driving from Morro Bay to SLO on Hwy1 and I was free to gaze. I saw a dark bird flying low

Hi SLOCO Birders - Today during our noon check-out rounds as Camp Hosts at Morro Strand State Beach, my wife Jeanne Miller spotted a not-very-black crow. Turns out it was a leucistic American Crow fee

Hi All - I knew I had a chance when I saw Tom Slater walking to his truck with a *big grin.* Sue Girard and Gordon were "on the spot" and had not yet seen the caracara but for a quick view after it ha

Hi - This morning my wife Jeanne Miller and I met Sheri Lubin for a look around Avila. While I chose not to start *early* early in deference to the lingering marine layer of late, I had hoped that the

I had good opportunities with full sun and blue skies for flight photos of the Crested Caracara. I also never saw it perched! You can see a few photos on my flickr site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/b

Thanks so much for the previous updates. At 2:45pm I found the CRESTED CARACARA as earlier at Villa Creek & Hwy 1. I followed it flying south along Hwy 1 to a half-mile north of the "fig tree turnout"

Certainly the turkeys would not be bothered by too many eagles on THAT course! (sorry, too)

Hi SLOCO Birders! It is a beautiful morning with hardly a breeze (9:15am) at Morro Strand State Beach - great light, and BIRDS, too. A quick look gave big flocks of both LONG-BILLED CURLEWS and MARBLE