Several of us (Jack & Petra Clayton, Don Quintana and I) saw at least two juvenile and one adult Least Bittern this morning. The juveniles were close to the bridge but still difficult to see through t

Meant to send this earlier. On 4-28 there was a female Common Goldeneye in Morro Bay off Tidelands Park. I walked around Meadow Park in San Luis Obispo on 4-27 concentrating near the bottlebrush trees

Rich & JoAnn Hansen called to let me know there was a Long-tailed Duck on the rocks just down from the stairs at North Point in north Morro Bay. It was still there when I arrived--an adult male with w

I'm forwarding a request that came to me via Morro Bay Winter Bird Festival staff. Regretfully there is no date indicated, but from a previous email also included I assume it is soon. Marlin Harms Mor

Two orioles stopped briefly in our yard and the neighbor's yard just now. I got binoculars on a single oriole twice, not sure if it was the same one twice or if I saw both. Impression was male Hooded,

Just had an immature male Bullock's Oriole near our feeders, but it was nearly immediately chased off by a Scrub Jay. I should look in my neighborhood more--I have done some looking--since there are s

This morning Rick Derevan, Dennis Sheridan and I greeted the new year by walking Estero Bluffs. We met Rick Austin, who had a similar plan. He pointed out to us where he had seen Harlequin Duck and wh

I hadn't looked at my oriole photos from Los Osos today until after I read Bill Bouton's note. I too have a photo of what I had thought (at the time) was a female Orchard which has a few black feather

I lost a key at the potluck dinner/CBC wrap-up last Saturday. It was a single key attached to a green beaded bird, a stylized Quetzal. If anyone knows anything about it I would appreciate a call or em

I am glad that Jim & Kevin & Will have identified an immature male Orchard Oriole. After I wrote that I had briefly seen an immature male Hooded I looked in a field guide and realized how similar imma

I went to Los Osos Valley Nursery to look for the reported orioles this morning. Hope, who must be the manager, was glad to hear there was a rare bird and was very inviting to have birders check the n

The Red-naped Sapsucker was in the designated pepper tree on the Bob Jones Trail in Avila as described in recent posts by Tom Edell and Dave Lawrence. Dave Keeling and I found it fairly accommodating

The grosbeak was at the feeder at Henrietta & Pecho in Los Osos this morning at 9:50, though it stayed away a long time after that. Icing on that cake was the pair of Bald Eagles circling above a shor

Mike Bush and I walked part of Estero Bluffs this morning and the most noteworthy species was a lone Elegant Tern with a group of Royal Terns. There were two small groups of Brant just beyond the near

From about this time of year till spring there are typically hundreds of scaup and ruddy ducks in the cove between Sweet Springs Nature Preserve and the Baywood Pier. This morning I saw 3 Canvasbacks

This morning I checked a few coastal places, but my wandering was truncated at the newly re-opened Cayucos Pier. From a distance at the edge of the ocean I saw an alcid I assumed was another murre. Se

The previously noted Palm Warbler was along the Morro Bay State Park boardwalk this morning near the furthest west pine tree. I also checked the beach north of Cayucos Pier near the time of high, high

This morning the adult Bald Eagle that was seen yesterday near Pecho Rd. was at the east end of Sweet Springs in Los Osos. It was perched in the same large eucalyptus tree it used last year, where the

On Thursday, the 24th, I heard the first-of-fall Red-breasted Nuthatch in our neighborhood. This morning a posse of 4-6 of them came through. Also today, first White-crowned Sparrow and first Golden-c

The previously-reported Black-necked Stilt was in the pond nearest South Bay Blvd. in Los Osos at 6:00 PM tonight. Marlin Harms Morro Bay, CA