RBA
* California
* Southeastern
* June 22, 2006
* CASE0606.22
This is the Southeastern CA weekly RBA summary. We cover Imperial,
Riverside, and San Bernardino Counties.
Birds mentioned
Common Loon
Western Grebe
Clark’s Grebe
American White Pelican
Least Bittern
Wood Stork
Brant
Mallard
Northern Pintail
Gadwall
Northern Shoveler
Green-winged Teal
Redhead
Surf Scoter
Zone-tailed Hawk
Peregrine Falcon
Ring-necked Pheasant
Mountain Quali
Clapper Rail
Black-bellied Plover
Snowy Plover
Greater Yellowlegs
Whimbrel
Long-billed Curlew
Marbled Godwit
Dunlin
Western Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
Wilson’s Phalarope
Bonaparte’s Gull
Little Gull
Franklin’s Gull
Laughing Gull
Yellow-footed Gull
Gull-billed Tern
Least Tern
Black Tern
White-winged Dove
Eurasian-collared Dove
Spotted Dove
Inca Dove
Barn Owl
Ruddy Ground-dove
Flammulated Owl
Burrowing Owl
Common Nighthawk
Common Poorwill
Black Swift
Costa’s Hummingbird
Calliope Hummingbird
Anna’s Hummingbird
Ladder-backed Woodpecker
White-headed Woodpecker
Williamson’s Sapsucker
Black Phoebe
Say’s Phoebe
Vermilion Flycatcher
Gray Vireo
Clark’s Nutcracker
Horned Lark
Red-breasted Nuthatch
Marsh Wren
Black-tailed Gnatcatcher
Townsend’s Solitaire
Crissal Thrasher
Phainopepla
Yellow-breasted Chat
Indigo Bunting
Blue Grosbeak
Black-throated Sparrow
Lark Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Fox Sparrow
Lincoln’s Sparrow
Hooded Oriole
Yellow-headed Blackbird
Bronzed Cowbird
- Transcript
Reports summarized this week are from San Bernardino, Riverside and
Imperial Counties.
SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY
Dave Goodward led a group into the Fish Creek Meadow area on June 17 and
heard two individual FLAMMULATED OWLS. They also saw one COMMON POORWILL
and heard another along the trail. At the Heart Bar Campground and Big
Meadow area, they saw TOWNSEND’S SOLITAIRE, LINCOLN’S SPARROWS near their
nest, and WHITE-HEADED WOODPECKER.
Kyri Freeman reported seeing at least two BURROWING OWLS in a state of
agitation in the stony hills above Apple Valley on June 19. BLACK-THROATED
SPARROWS were also heard singing in the area.
Thomas Benson birded the San Bernardino Mountains on June 15. He spotted
six BLACK SWIFTS above Monkeyface Falls at about 5:30 in the morning. A
check of the Arrastre Creek area produced BLACK-CHINNED SPARROWS, SONG
SPARROWS, CALLIOPE HUMMINGBIRDS, a singing INDIGO BUNTING, a singing GRAY
VIREO, CLARK’S NUTCRACKER, COMMON NIGHTHAWK, and MOUNTAIN QUAIL. At Bluff
Lake, he birded along the north edge and down the trail to the big
lodgepole pine, where he saw FOX SPARROW, WILLIAMSON’S SAPSUCKER, and RED-
BREASTED NUTHATCHES.
RIVERSIDE COUNTY
Jim Pike reported a low-flying ZONE-TAILED HAWK IN Corona on June 19. The
bird was following the northern edge of habitat along the Santa Ana river,
going west over the Prado Basin toward the Chino Hills. He felt this was
an immature bird, missing inner primaries and with a two-tiered looking
tail, probably molt related.
IMPERIAL COUNTY
Guy McCaskie posted his finds from birding the Salton Sea area on June 17.
Birds of a “may see” or rarer classification included:
BRANT (1 at Unit 1 of the SSNWR)
GADWALL
MALLARD
NORTHERN SHOVELER
NORTHERN PINTAIL
GREEN-WINGED TEAL
REDHEAD(including at least 4 females with ducklings)
SURF SCOTER (1 female with Ruddy Ducks at the SSNWR)
RING-NECKED PHEASANT
COMMON LOON (a worn looking bird in basic plumage at Lack & Lindsay)
WESTERN GREBE
CLARK’S GREBE
AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN
LEAST BITTERN
WOOD STORK (3 adults at the west end of McDonald Road)
PEREGRINE FALCON
CLAPPER RAIL
BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER
SNOWY PLOVER (including 1 on eggs at Unit 1)
GREATER YELLOWLEGS(10 together at the southwest corner of the Wister Unit)
WHIMBREL
LONG-BILLED CURLEW
MARBLED GODWIT
WESTERN SANDPIPER (2 at the SW corner of the Wister Unit)
LEAST SANDPIPER (1 on Morton Bay off the west end of Hazard Road)
DUNLIN (1 on Morton Bay onthe west end of Hazard Road)
WILSON’S PHALAROPE (mostly all adult females in bright plumage)
LAUGHING GULL
FRANKLIN’S GULL (1 at the SW corner of the Wister Unit, and 1
along
Garst north of Sinclair)
LITTLE GULL (1 in first-summer plumageat Unit 1)
BONAPARTE’S GULL
YELLOW-FOOTED GULL
GULL-BILLED TERN
LEAST TERN (3 at the SW corner of Wister Unit, 4 at Unit 1)
BLACK TERN
EURASIAN COLLARED-DOVE
SPOTTED DOVE
WHITE-WINGED DOVE
INCA DOVE
RUDDY GROUND-DOVE (2 singing males at Eddins and Sperry Roads)
BARN OWL
ANNA’S HUMMINGBIRD
COSTA’S HUMMINGBIRD
LADDER-BACKED WOODPECKER
BLACK PHOEBE
SAY’S PHOEBE
VERMILION FLYCATCHER (1 at Cattle Call Park)
HORNED LARK
MARSH WREN
BLACK-TAILED GNATCATCHER
CRISSAL THRASHER (1 near the intersection of Carter and Fites Roads
southwest of Brawley)
PHAINOPEPLA (1 female in Niland and 2 females together at Wister Unit
Headquarters)
YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT (1 singing along the New River app. 2 miles east of
Fig Lagoon)
LARK SPARROW
BLUE GROSBEAK
YELLOW-HEADED BLACKBIRD
BRONZED COWBIRD (2 males and a female at Lakeview Golfcourse near Fig
Lagoon, a male in Cattle Call Park and a male near the SE corner of El
Centro)
HOODED ORIOLE (1 female at the Wister Unit HQs)
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That's it for today. This summary is done weekly, usually on Thursday.
GOOD BIRDING!
Kirk and Linda Stitt
secalrba@earthlink.net
San Bernardino, CA
RBA phone (909)793-5599
For more frequent updates, see the note below. If you have information on
any new rare birds or updates on any of the birds in this report, PLEASE
LET US KNOW. We can't update reports if we don't hear from you.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
In general, birds that are on this weekly summary are those that are
classified as at least rare in “Birds of Southern California” by Garrett
and Dunn, “Birds of the Salton Sea” by Patten, McCaskie, and Unitt, or
in “Birds of the Lower Colorado River Valley” by Rosenberg, Ohmart,
Hunter, and Anderson. Rarity can be regional or seasonal. For example, a
nuthatch reported at the Salton Sea, where it is rare, may be on the
summary. That same bird reported from the San Bernardino Mountains, where
it is common, would not be. A sparrow reported as a rarity in Riverside
in July, may be common there in December.
If you are only getting this report through Birdwest, you can get MORE
FREQUENT AND COMPREHENSIVE UPDATES by subscribing to inlandcountybirds
(see below).
To report a bird POST TO INLANDCOUNTYBIRDS (see below)!!! If there is
some reason that you cannot post there, or do not want to, e-mail Kirk and
Linda Stitt at secalrba@earthlink.net or call (909) 793-5599 option 3 to
leave a report on the RBA phone machine. Thanks!!!
Please submit your documentation of all California Bird Records Committee
review species (as noted in the text above) to:
Guy McCaskie, Secretary, P.O. Box 275, Imperial Beach, CA 91933-0275, E-
mail: guymcc@pacbell.net
Additionally, CBRC species AND birds of local or seasonal rarity should be
reported to the "North American Birds" (formerly "Field Notes") County
Coordinators. They are:
IMPERIAL COUNTY Guy McCaskie 954 Grove Avenue, Imperial Beach, CA 91932
E: guymcc@pacbell.net
INYO COUNTY Tom & Jo Heindel, P.O. Box 400, Big Pine CA 93513 E:
tjheindel@aol.com
KERN COUNTY John Wilson 1425 Alta Vista, Bakersfield CA 93305 E:
jcwilson@lightspeed.net
RIVERSIDE COUNTY John F. Green, 3120 Mount Vernon Ave., Riverside, CA
92507 E:bewickwren@earthlink.net
SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY Alexander E. Koonce, 1357 Paige Lane, Redlands, CA
92373 E: sandy_koonce@redlands.edu
************
There is an Inland Counties (San Bernardino, Riverside, and Imperial) bird
report & discussion group. You can view messages at:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/inlandcountybirds/ If you need help
subscribing to inlandcountybirds, e-mail John Green at
bewickwren@earthlink.net
IMPORTANT: Sometimes rare birds that are found in Southeastern CA are not
reported to Inlandcountybirds. Sites and phone numbers where such reports
sometimes appear are marked with *** below. If you are headed to one of
those areas, be sure to check that site or phone number first, in addition
to this RBA.
Los Angeles, Orange, Santa Barbara, and rarely San Diego County reports
are posted on BIRDWEST. To subscribe, send a message to
LISTSERV@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU with SUBSCRIBE BIRDWEST YOUR NAME in the
message (and your name = YOUR real name).
Orange County has an RBA update mailing list. To subscribe, write to
JWeintraub@Fullerton.edu
There is also an Orange County Listserv. Messages can be viewed there
at; http://groups.yahoo.com/group/OrangeCountyBirding
San Diego County has its own Listserv. You can view messages at:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SDBIRDS ***
The San Diego phone RBA also posts reports to:
http://homepage.mac.com/aves/SanDiego.html ***
Sometimes Imperial County reports appear on these sources.Calbirds covers
all of California, but often has SoCal bird reports. To
subscribe, send a blank email to: calbirds-subscribe@yahoogroups.com ***
Sightings in Inyo County and beyond are posted at
http://www.esaudubon.org/birds/
Some Kern County reports are posted at:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kerncobirding
Messages to the birding listserve for the Pasadena area can be viewed at:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PasadenaAudubon
Messages to the birding listserve for Los Angeles County can be viewed
at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LACoBirds
************
A schedule of San Bernardino Valley Audubon Society field trips is
available at our phone RBA and information center and at the SBVAS
website: http://www.sbvas.org
Important Southern California Bird Alert and Wildlife Phone Numbers: Los
Angeles RBA (323) 874-1318 ***
Monterey Bay RBA (831)626-6605
Morro Bay RBA (805) 528-7182
Orange County RBA (949) 487-6869
San Diego RBA (619) 688-2473 ***
Santa Barbara RBA (805) 964-8240 (report to (805)-964-1316)
Southeastern CA Bird Alert (909) 793-5599
Southern California BIRDBOX (818) 952-5502 + 5 ***
CalTip (CA Fish & Game) (800) 952-5400 (to report wildlife violations)
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* California
* Southeastern
* June 22, 2006
* CASE0606.22
This is the Southeastern CA weekly RBA summary. We cover Imperial,
Riverside, and San Bernardino Counties.
Birds mentioned
Common Loon
Western Grebe
Clark’s Grebe
American White Pelican
Least Bittern
Wood Stork
Brant
Mallard
Northern Pintail
Gadwall
Northern Shoveler
Green-winged Teal
Redhead
Surf Scoter
Zone-tailed Hawk
Peregrine Falcon
Ring-necked Pheasant
Mountain Quali
Clapper Rail
Black-bellied Plover
Snowy Plover
Greater Yellowlegs
Whimbrel
Long-billed Curlew
Marbled Godwit
Dunlin
Western Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
Wilson’s Phalarope
Bonaparte’s Gull
Little Gull
Franklin’s Gull
Laughing Gull
Yellow-footed Gull
Gull-billed Tern
Least Tern
Black Tern
White-winged Dove
Eurasian-collared Dove
Spotted Dove
Inca Dove
Barn Owl
Ruddy Ground-dove
Flammulated Owl
Burrowing Owl
Common Nighthawk
Common Poorwill
Black Swift
Costa’s Hummingbird
Calliope Hummingbird
Anna’s Hummingbird
Ladder-backed Woodpecker
White-headed Woodpecker
Williamson’s Sapsucker
Black Phoebe
Say’s Phoebe
Vermilion Flycatcher
Gray Vireo
Clark’s Nutcracker
Horned Lark
Red-breasted Nuthatch
Marsh Wren
Black-tailed Gnatcatcher
Townsend’s Solitaire
Crissal Thrasher
Phainopepla
Yellow-breasted Chat
Indigo Bunting
Blue Grosbeak
Black-throated Sparrow
Lark Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Fox Sparrow
Lincoln’s Sparrow
Hooded Oriole
Yellow-headed Blackbird
Bronzed Cowbird
- Transcript
Reports summarized this week are from San Bernardino, Riverside and
Imperial Counties.
SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY
Dave Goodward led a group into the Fish Creek Meadow area on June 17 and
heard two individual FLAMMULATED OWLS. They also saw one COMMON POORWILL
and heard another along the trail. At the Heart Bar Campground and Big
Meadow area, they saw TOWNSEND’S SOLITAIRE, LINCOLN’S SPARROWS near their
nest, and WHITE-HEADED WOODPECKER.
Kyri Freeman reported seeing at least two BURROWING OWLS in a state of
agitation in the stony hills above Apple Valley on June 19. BLACK-THROATED
SPARROWS were also heard singing in the area.
Thomas Benson birded the San Bernardino Mountains on June 15. He spotted
six BLACK SWIFTS above Monkeyface Falls at about 5:30 in the morning. A
check of the Arrastre Creek area produced BLACK-CHINNED SPARROWS, SONG
SPARROWS, CALLIOPE HUMMINGBIRDS, a singing INDIGO BUNTING, a singing GRAY
VIREO, CLARK’S NUTCRACKER, COMMON NIGHTHAWK, and MOUNTAIN QUAIL. At Bluff
Lake, he birded along the north edge and down the trail to the big
lodgepole pine, where he saw FOX SPARROW, WILLIAMSON’S SAPSUCKER, and RED-
BREASTED NUTHATCHES.
RIVERSIDE COUNTY
Jim Pike reported a low-flying ZONE-TAILED HAWK IN Corona on June 19. The
bird was following the northern edge of habitat along the Santa Ana river,
going west over the Prado Basin toward the Chino Hills. He felt this was
an immature bird, missing inner primaries and with a two-tiered looking
tail, probably molt related.
IMPERIAL COUNTY
Guy McCaskie posted his finds from birding the Salton Sea area on June 17.
Birds of a “may see” or rarer classification included:
BRANT (1 at Unit 1 of the SSNWR)
GADWALL
MALLARD
NORTHERN SHOVELER
NORTHERN PINTAIL
GREEN-WINGED TEAL
REDHEAD(including at least 4 females with ducklings)
SURF SCOTER (1 female with Ruddy Ducks at the SSNWR)
RING-NECKED PHEASANT
COMMON LOON (a worn looking bird in basic plumage at Lack & Lindsay)
WESTERN GREBE
CLARK’S GREBE
AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN
LEAST BITTERN
WOOD STORK (3 adults at the west end of McDonald Road)
PEREGRINE FALCON
CLAPPER RAIL
BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER
SNOWY PLOVER (including 1 on eggs at Unit 1)
GREATER YELLOWLEGS(10 together at the southwest corner of the Wister Unit)
WHIMBREL
LONG-BILLED CURLEW
MARBLED GODWIT
WESTERN SANDPIPER (2 at the SW corner of the Wister Unit)
LEAST SANDPIPER (1 on Morton Bay off the west end of Hazard Road)
DUNLIN (1 on Morton Bay onthe west end of Hazard Road)
WILSON’S PHALAROPE (mostly all adult females in bright plumage)
LAUGHING GULL
FRANKLIN’S GULL (1 at the SW corner of the Wister Unit, and 1
along
Garst north of Sinclair)
LITTLE GULL (1 in first-summer plumageat Unit 1)
BONAPARTE’S GULL
YELLOW-FOOTED GULL
GULL-BILLED TERN
LEAST TERN (3 at the SW corner of Wister Unit, 4 at Unit 1)
BLACK TERN
EURASIAN COLLARED-DOVE
SPOTTED DOVE
WHITE-WINGED DOVE
INCA DOVE
RUDDY GROUND-DOVE (2 singing males at Eddins and Sperry Roads)
BARN OWL
ANNA’S HUMMINGBIRD
COSTA’S HUMMINGBIRD
LADDER-BACKED WOODPECKER
BLACK PHOEBE
SAY’S PHOEBE
VERMILION FLYCATCHER (1 at Cattle Call Park)
HORNED LARK
MARSH WREN
BLACK-TAILED GNATCATCHER
CRISSAL THRASHER (1 near the intersection of Carter and Fites Roads
southwest of Brawley)
PHAINOPEPLA (1 female in Niland and 2 females together at Wister Unit
Headquarters)
YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT (1 singing along the New River app. 2 miles east of
Fig Lagoon)
LARK SPARROW
BLUE GROSBEAK
YELLOW-HEADED BLACKBIRD
BRONZED COWBIRD (2 males and a female at Lakeview Golfcourse near Fig
Lagoon, a male in Cattle Call Park and a male near the SE corner of El
Centro)
HOODED ORIOLE (1 female at the Wister Unit HQs)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
That's it for today. This summary is done weekly, usually on Thursday.
GOOD BIRDING!
Kirk and Linda Stitt
secalrba@earthlink.net
San Bernardino, CA
RBA phone (909)793-5599
For more frequent updates, see the note below. If you have information on
any new rare birds or updates on any of the birds in this report, PLEASE
LET US KNOW. We can't update reports if we don't hear from you.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
In general, birds that are on this weekly summary are those that are
classified as at least rare in “Birds of Southern California” by Garrett
and Dunn, “Birds of the Salton Sea” by Patten, McCaskie, and Unitt, or
in “Birds of the Lower Colorado River Valley” by Rosenberg, Ohmart,
Hunter, and Anderson. Rarity can be regional or seasonal. For example, a
nuthatch reported at the Salton Sea, where it is rare, may be on the
summary. That same bird reported from the San Bernardino Mountains, where
it is common, would not be. A sparrow reported as a rarity in Riverside
in July, may be common there in December.
If you are only getting this report through Birdwest, you can get MORE
FREQUENT AND COMPREHENSIVE UPDATES by subscribing to inlandcountybirds
(see below).
To report a bird POST TO INLANDCOUNTYBIRDS (see below)!!! If there is
some reason that you cannot post there, or do not want to, e-mail Kirk and
Linda Stitt at secalrba@earthlink.net or call (909) 793-5599 option 3 to
leave a report on the RBA phone machine. Thanks!!!
Please submit your documentation of all California Bird Records Committee
review species (as noted in the text above) to:
Guy McCaskie, Secretary, P.O. Box 275, Imperial Beach, CA 91933-0275, E-
mail: guymcc@pacbell.net
Additionally, CBRC species AND birds of local or seasonal rarity should be
reported to the "North American Birds" (formerly "Field Notes") County
Coordinators. They are:
IMPERIAL COUNTY Guy McCaskie 954 Grove Avenue, Imperial Beach, CA 91932
E: guymcc@pacbell.net
INYO COUNTY Tom & Jo Heindel, P.O. Box 400, Big Pine CA 93513 E:
tjheindel@aol.com
KERN COUNTY John Wilson 1425 Alta Vista, Bakersfield CA 93305 E:
jcwilson@lightspeed.net
RIVERSIDE COUNTY John F. Green, 3120 Mount Vernon Ave., Riverside, CA
92507 E:bewickwren@earthlink.net
SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY Alexander E. Koonce, 1357 Paige Lane, Redlands, CA
92373 E: sandy_koonce@redlands.edu
************
There is an Inland Counties (San Bernardino, Riverside, and Imperial) bird
report & discussion group. You can view messages at:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/inlandcountybirds/ If you need help
subscribing to inlandcountybirds, e-mail John Green at
bewickwren@earthlink.net
IMPORTANT: Sometimes rare birds that are found in Southeastern CA are not
reported to Inlandcountybirds. Sites and phone numbers where such reports
sometimes appear are marked with *** below. If you are headed to one of
those areas, be sure to check that site or phone number first, in addition
to this RBA.
Los Angeles, Orange, Santa Barbara, and rarely San Diego County reports
are posted on BIRDWEST. To subscribe, send a message to
LISTSERV@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU with SUBSCRIBE BIRDWEST YOUR NAME in the
message (and your name = YOUR real name).
Orange County has an RBA update mailing list. To subscribe, write to
JWeintraub@Fullerton.edu
There is also an Orange County Listserv. Messages can be viewed there
at; http://groups.yahoo.com/group/OrangeCountyBirding
San Diego County has its own Listserv. You can view messages at:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SDBIRDS ***
The San Diego phone RBA also posts reports to:
http://homepage.mac.com/aves/SanDiego.html ***
Sometimes Imperial County reports appear on these sources.Calbirds covers
all of California, but often has SoCal bird reports. To
subscribe, send a blank email to: calbirds-subscribe@yahoogroups.com ***
Sightings in Inyo County and beyond are posted at
http://www.esaudubon.org/birds/
Some Kern County reports are posted at:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kerncobirding
Messages to the birding listserve for the Pasadena area can be viewed at:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PasadenaAudubon
Messages to the birding listserve for Los Angeles County can be viewed
at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LACoBirds
************
A schedule of San Bernardino Valley Audubon Society field trips is
available at our phone RBA and information center and at the SBVAS
website: http://www.sbvas.org
Important Southern California Bird Alert and Wildlife Phone Numbers: Los
Angeles RBA (323) 874-1318 ***
Monterey Bay RBA (831)626-6605
Morro Bay RBA (805) 528-7182
Orange County RBA (949) 487-6869
San Diego RBA (619) 688-2473 ***
Santa Barbara RBA (805) 964-8240 (report to (805)-964-1316)
Southeastern CA Bird Alert (909) 793-5599
Southern California BIRDBOX (818) 952-5502 + 5 ***
CalTip (CA Fish & Game) (800) 952-5400 (to report wildlife violations)
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