RBA
* California
* Southeastern
* July 27, 2006
* CASE0607.27
This is the Southeastern CA weekly RBA summary. We cover Imperial,
Riverside, and San Bernardino Counties.
Birds mentioned
Western Grebe
Wood Stork
Wood Duck
Peregrine Falcon
Clapper Rail
Virginia Rail
Black-bellied Plover
Snowy Plover
Lesser Yellowlegs
Greater Yellowlegs
Spotted Sandpiper
Whimbrel
Stilt Sandpiper
Laughing Gull
Franklin’s Gull
Little Gull
Yellow-footed Gull
Gull-billed Tern
Least Tern
Eurasian Collared-Dove
White-winged Dove
Inca Dove
Ruddy Ground-dove
Black-chinned Hummingbird
Anna’s Hummingbird
Costa’s Hummingbird
Gila Woodpecker
Ladder-backed Woodpecker
White-headed Woodpecker
Red-breasted Sapsucker
Williamson’s Sapsucker
Dusky Flycatcher
Black Phoebe
Horned Lark
Tree Swallow
Bank Swallow
Red-breasted Nuthatch
Marsh Wren
Black-tailed Gnatcatcher
Lucy’s Warbler
Lincoln’s Sparrow
Tricolored Blackbird
Yellow-headed Blackbird
Bronzed Cowbird
- Transcript
Reports summarized this week are from San Bernardino, Riverside and
Imperial Counties.
SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY
Sandra Remley reported from Bluff Lake on July 22. She and other birders
saw a female WOOD DUCK, RED CROSSBILLS, WHITE-HEADED WOODPECKER, RED-
BREASTED SAPSUCKER, RED-BREASTED NUTHATCH, and LINCOLN’S SPARROWS. They
also heard a DUSKY FLYCATCHER. A WILLIAMSON’S SAPSUCKER was seen both at
the lake and at the Aspen Grove Picnic area. Sandra warned that the fire
road, 2N11, has a very bad spot about a half mile from the Champion
Lodgepole Pine Trailhead.
RIVERSIDE COUNTY
There were no reports from Riverside County this week.
IMPERIAL COUNTY
Guy McCaskie sent in a report from the Salton Sea on July 20. He saw 2
WESTERN GREBE, 1 adult WOOD STORK on Schrimpf Rd. between Davis and Garst,
1 PEREGRINE FALCON, 1 CLAPPER RAIL, 1 VIRGINIA RAIL, 10 BLACK-BELLIED
PLOVER including alternate plumage adults, 50 SNOWY PLOVER, 15 LESSER
YELLOWLEGS, 15 GREATER YELLOWLEGS, 1 SPOTTED SANDPIPER, 100 WHIMBREL, 25
STILT SANDPIPER, 250 LAUGHING GULL, 1 FRANKLIN’S GULL, a juvenile in a
partially flooded field near the west end of Young Road, 1 LITTLE GULL at
Unit 1 of the SSNWR, 50 YELLOW-FOOTED GULL, 250 GULL-BILLED TERN, 1 LEAST
TERN, an adult at the SW corner of the Wister Unit, 75 EURASIAN COLLARED-
DOVE, 40 WHITE-WINGED DOVE, 20 INCA DOVE, 1 RUDDY GROUND-DOVE, a singing
male at the intersection of Sperry and Eddins, 2 BLACK-CHINNED
HUMMINGBIRD, 1 ANNA’S HUMMINGBIRD, 1 COSTA’S HUMMINGBIRD, 5 GILA
WOODPECKER, 1 LADDER-BACKED WOODPECKER, 25 BLACK PHOEBE, 10 HORNED LARK,
10 TREE SWALLOW, 1 BANK SWALLOW with other swallows near the north end of
Poe Road, 6 MARSH WREN, 2 BLACK-TAILED GNATCATCHER, 1 LUCY’S WARBLER, an
adult in the area around the intersection of Fites and Carter Roads SW of
Brawley, 5 TRICOLORED BLACKBIRD, all adult males together at the Kuhn’s
dairy about 3-5 miles west of Seeley, 5 YELLOW-HEADED BLACKBIRD, and 1
BRONZED COWBIRD, a male at Lakeview Golf Course near Fig Lagoon.
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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
* July 27, 2006
* CASE0607.27
This is the Southeastern CA weekly RBA summary. We cover Imperial,
Riverside, and San Bernardino Counties.
Birds mentioned
Western Grebe
Wood Stork
Wood Duck
Peregrine Falcon
Clapper Rail
Virginia Rail
Black-bellied Plover
Snowy Plover
Lesser Yellowlegs
Greater Yellowlegs
Spotted Sandpiper
Whimbrel
Stilt Sandpiper
Laughing Gull
Franklin’s Gull
Little Gull
Yellow-footed Gull
Gull-billed Tern
Least Tern
Eurasian Collared-Dove
White-winged Dove
Inca Dove
Ruddy Ground-dove
Black-chinned Hummingbird
Anna’s Hummingbird
Costa’s Hummingbird
Gila Woodpecker
Ladder-backed Woodpecker
White-headed Woodpecker
Red-breasted Sapsucker
Williamson’s Sapsucker
Dusky Flycatcher
Black Phoebe
Horned Lark
Tree Swallow
Bank Swallow
Red-breasted Nuthatch
Marsh Wren
Black-tailed Gnatcatcher
Lucy’s Warbler
Lincoln’s Sparrow
Tricolored Blackbird
Yellow-headed Blackbird
Bronzed Cowbird
- Transcript
Reports summarized this week are from San Bernardino, Riverside and
Imperial Counties.
SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY
Sandra Remley reported from Bluff Lake on July 22. She and other birders
saw a female WOOD DUCK, RED CROSSBILLS, WHITE-HEADED WOODPECKER, RED-
BREASTED SAPSUCKER, RED-BREASTED NUTHATCH, and LINCOLN’S SPARROWS. They
also heard a DUSKY FLYCATCHER. A WILLIAMSON’S SAPSUCKER was seen both at
the lake and at the Aspen Grove Picnic area. Sandra warned that the fire
road, 2N11, has a very bad spot about a half mile from the Champion
Lodgepole Pine Trailhead.
RIVERSIDE COUNTY
There were no reports from Riverside County this week.
IMPERIAL COUNTY
Guy McCaskie sent in a report from the Salton Sea on July 20. He saw 2
WESTERN GREBE, 1 adult WOOD STORK on Schrimpf Rd. between Davis and Garst,
1 PEREGRINE FALCON, 1 CLAPPER RAIL, 1 VIRGINIA RAIL, 10 BLACK-BELLIED
PLOVER including alternate plumage adults, 50 SNOWY PLOVER, 15 LESSER
YELLOWLEGS, 15 GREATER YELLOWLEGS, 1 SPOTTED SANDPIPER, 100 WHIMBREL, 25
STILT SANDPIPER, 250 LAUGHING GULL, 1 FRANKLIN’S GULL, a juvenile in a
partially flooded field near the west end of Young Road, 1 LITTLE GULL at
Unit 1 of the SSNWR, 50 YELLOW-FOOTED GULL, 250 GULL-BILLED TERN, 1 LEAST
TERN, an adult at the SW corner of the Wister Unit, 75 EURASIAN COLLARED-
DOVE, 40 WHITE-WINGED DOVE, 20 INCA DOVE, 1 RUDDY GROUND-DOVE, a singing
male at the intersection of Sperry and Eddins, 2 BLACK-CHINNED
HUMMINGBIRD, 1 ANNA’S HUMMINGBIRD, 1 COSTA’S HUMMINGBIRD, 5 GILA
WOODPECKER, 1 LADDER-BACKED WOODPECKER, 25 BLACK PHOEBE, 10 HORNED LARK,
10 TREE SWALLOW, 1 BANK SWALLOW with other swallows near the north end of
Poe Road, 6 MARSH WREN, 2 BLACK-TAILED GNATCATCHER, 1 LUCY’S WARBLER, an
adult in the area around the intersection of Fites and Carter Roads SW of
Brawley, 5 TRICOLORED BLACKBIRD, all adult males together at the Kuhn’s
dairy about 3-5 miles west of Seeley, 5 YELLOW-HEADED BLACKBIRD, and 1
BRONZED COWBIRD, a male at Lakeview Golf Course near Fig Lagoon.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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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