One adult male Rose-breasted Grosbeak at Patricia Price’s feeders, made several short visits to the black-oil sunflower seed. 8am today, June 19 138 Whiteley Street, Arroyo Grande, CA Bill Bouton San

In my previous post re the siskins: I did not mean that their were 60-70 birds on “every feeder”. Rather that a total of 60-70 siskins were feeding. Bill Bouton San Luis Obispo www.flickr.com/photos/b

At Patricia Price’s home, on Whiteley Street, Arroyo Grande, Pine Siskin numbers have been low (a dozen or less) until an explosive increase yesterday and again today. At their peak, we conservatively

I have posted two images of the rarity discovered by Jim Royer today at: https://www.flickr.com/photos/billbouton/ The bird has an apparently tumorous growth beneath its mandible. I have seen similar

I observed the Common Ringed Plover today, Monday October 5, 12:00-13:00, 50-100 yards north of rescue marker 6. In heavy fog! Bill Bouton San Luis Obispo

Patricia Price, in Arroyo Grande, hosted her FOS immature White-crowned Sparrow, Saturday, the 19th. Bill Bouton San Luis Obispo, CA 93401 USA boutonbill@... www.flickr.com/photos/billbouton/set

Thanks to Kaaren Perry for pointing out that, in my SLOCObirding post, I reversed the plumage descriptions of male and female phalaropes. (Though, I did get it correct on Flickr.) The females are the

Thanks to Kaaren’s post re the Red-necked Phalaropes along Turri Road, and to Jim Van Beveren’s directing me to the correct pond, early this afternoon I was finally able to photograph both the spectac

For anyone interested, a documentation-quality image of the two celebrity geese, which were observed by multiple birders today, can be viewed at: https://www.flickr.com/photos/billbouton/49652548918/

Midmorning today, I attempted to bird in Pecho Willows for the first time this migrant season. Upon taking my first several steps in, from Pecho Road, I heard sounds of a flock, looked up to the right

Hi All, Yesterday (Friday) I sent the following RBA to slocobirding, but have been alerted by members of the group that they did not receive it. Checking my “Sent Mail”, I see that, when I addressed t

I always enjoy Cheryl Lish’s occasional descriptions of her feeder/yard birds, and her August 5 report was no exception. I was struck by how different her local bird activity is from that of Patricia

Yesterday, while driving toward SLO Town on Highway 227 about a mile out of Arroyo Grande, I came upon 8 or 10 vultures at a roadkill. They flushed as I neared them but one was most unusual, in my exp

Friday, 2/8, there were 9 Hooded Mergansers on the last wooded section of Santa Rosa Creek before it opens onto the beach. There were 4 alt plumaged males and 5 females. Additionally an old sighting f

I’ve not been able to get out birding much lately and have been developing a serious case of cabin fever. Though it was late to begin an expedition, I spontaneously decided to make a trip to the Carri

This is not a rare bird report, but rather an interesting (to me, at least) behavior description. At Patricia Price's feeder array near old town Arroyo Grande, one of the feeders is a platform contain

As a result of my musing about what this Red Phalarope has in its beak: https://www.flickr.com/photos/billbouton/46032297822/ I received a couple of interesting responses. I don’t know if this one hol

Like Kaaren Perry who reported a couple of hours earlier today, I too saw 5 Red Phalaropes in Morro Creek this late morning. Several days ago, when there were 6 present, I took some photos. Upon proce

This morning, at Patricia Price’s feeders on Whitely Street, Arroyo Grande, a bright Yellow-fronted Canary, Crithagra (Serinus) mozambicus, fed avidly at both black oil sunflower and nyjer seed feeder

Today at Patricia Price’s feeders on Whitely Street, Arroyo Grande: Although multiple individuals were regular all last winter at the peanut butter/suet feeders, a 1st of the “fall” ORANGE-CROWNED WAR