RBA
* California
* Southeastern
* December 7, 2006
* CASE0712.06
This is the Southeastern CA weekly RBA summary. We cover Imperial,
Riverside, and San Bernardino Counties.
Birds mentioned
Pacific Loon
American White Pelican
Wood Duck
Surf Scoter
Common Goldeneye
Bufflehead
Common Merganser
Hooded Merganser
White-tailed Kite
Zone-tailed Hawk
Rough-legged Hawk
Bald Eagle
Peregrine Falcon
Chukar
Prairie Falcon
Peregrine Falcon
Sandhill Crane
Piping Plover
Snowy Plover
Mountain Plover
Solitary Sandpiper
Ruddy Turnstone
Wilson's Snipe
Mew Gull
Thayer's Gull
Glaucous-winged Gull
Yellow-footed Gull
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Ruddy-ground Dove
Lewis's Woodpecker
Gray Flycatcher
Eastern Phoebe
Vermilion Flycatcher
Gray Flycatcher
Tropical Kingbird
Eastern Phoebe
Mountain Bluebird
Western Bluebird
American Redstart
Savannah Sparrow (Large-billed)
White-throated Sparrow
Chestnut-collared Longspur
Common Grackle
- Transcript
Reports summarized this week are from San Bernardino, Riverside and
Imperial Counties.
SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY
Sandy Remley reported twelve CHUKAR at a private residence on Fire Road
2N02 near Baldwin Lake on November 29. She also reported two BALD EAGLES
at Eagle Point on the south shore of Big Bear Lake.
On December 2, Steve Druce reported a MOUNTAIN BLUEBIRD on the road to the
nature center near I 15 in Zzyzx.
RIVERSIDE COUNTY
On November 29, John Green reported a LEWIS’S WOODPECKER on a utility pole
next to the Sylvan Meadows Trailhead in the Santa Rosa Plateau Ecological
Reserve. To reach this area take Clinton Keith Road west from I 15. Pass
the entrance to the reserve. Clinton Keith will become Tenaja Road. Watch
for the signed trailhead which has parking lots on both sides of the
street.
On Thursday, November 30 Dan Williams reported from Lake Perris. He saw a
MEW GULL near the boat ramp at Bernasconi Beach and a ZONE-TAILED HAWK
over the northeastern most section of Lake Perris toward Davis Road. From
San Jacinto Wildlife Area he reported two VERMILION FLYCATCHERS just east
of Pond 2. There were two CHESTNUT-COLLARED LONGSPURS just past the gate
opposite Martin Street.
Sandy Swan reported the following sightings from the monthly walk at the
Coachella Valley Bird Center on Saturday, December 2: WOOD DUCK,
BUFFLEHEAD, COMMON MERGANSER, WILSON’S SNIPE and VERMILION FLYCATCHER.
Their next bird walk is Saturday January 6 at 8 am.
On December 4, Chet McGaugh reported a second EASTERN PHOEBE at San
Jacinto Wildlife Area. It was just beyond the “Marsh A” sign, near the
willow on the left side of the road. He reported that Doug Morton saw both
birds on Nov. 26. Chet also reported 500+ AMERICAN WHITE PELICANS at the
south end of Mystic Lake. Birders should be pleased that Bridge Street
has reopened.
IMPERIAL COUNTY
Jon Feenstra reported the following birds from the Salton Sea on November
30: 2 SURF SCOTER on shore north of Bowles Rd., PACIFC LOON at Sheldon
Reservoir,, ROUGHED LEGGED HAWK (light juvenile) near the intersection of
Drew and Diehl near Fig Lagoon, THAYER’S GULL near Lack and Lindsey,
GLAUCOUS-WINGED GULL at Obsidian Butte, 1 RUDDY GROUND-DOVE at Sperry and
Eddins, TROPICAL KINGBIRD on the golf course above fig lagoon, AMERICAN
REDSTART male at Wister Unit, and WHITE-THROATED SPARROW at the Wister
Unit.
On December 1 Guy McCaskie reported HOODED MERGANSER (11, including 2
adult males) on Fig Lagoon, PACIFIC LOON (One adult male), on Sheldon
Reservoir, a ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK immediately south of Fig Lagoon, a SOLITARY
SANDPIPER at Kuhn’s Dairy west of Seeley, a GRAY FLYCATCHER at Cattle Call
Park in Brawley, a TROPICAL KINGBIRD at Lakeview golf course, WESTERN
BLUEBIRD (6 at Cattle Call Park in Brawley), and a COMMON GRACKLE at
Kuhn’s Dairy west of Seeley.
From the Salton Sea on Friday, December 1, Bill Shelmerdine reported the
continuing PIPING PLOVER At Red Hill Marina near the boat ramp, YELLOW-
FOOTED GULL (one at Red Hill and two at Obsidian Butte). He also reported
a GLAUCOUS-WINGED GULL, and two LARGE-BILLED SAVANNAH SPARROWS at Obsidian
Butte.
Vic Leipzig also reported HOODED MERGANZERS (1 male 8 female) at Fig
Lagoon on Friday, November 24.
On December 3, Paul Jorgenson reported about 280 SANDHILL CRANES north of
the Holly Sugar facility on Keystone Rd at Barkleys Seed.
On Tuesday, December 5, AL and Linda Moreno reported the continuing
PACIFIC LOON at Sheldon Reservoir, as well as three COMMON GOLDENEYE,
three COMMON MERGANSERS, and four REDHEADS. From Fig Lagoon they reported
the continuing MERGANSERS, and a PRAIRIE FLCON and PEREGRINE FALCON on the
south bank of Fig Lagoon. At the fields south east of the corner of
Bowles St. and Lack there were at least 100 MOUNTAIN PLOVERS.
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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
* December 7, 2006
* CASE0712.06
This is the Southeastern CA weekly RBA summary. We cover Imperial,
Riverside, and San Bernardino Counties.
Birds mentioned
Pacific Loon
American White Pelican
Wood Duck
Surf Scoter
Common Goldeneye
Bufflehead
Common Merganser
Hooded Merganser
White-tailed Kite
Zone-tailed Hawk
Rough-legged Hawk
Bald Eagle
Peregrine Falcon
Chukar
Prairie Falcon
Peregrine Falcon
Sandhill Crane
Piping Plover
Snowy Plover
Mountain Plover
Solitary Sandpiper
Ruddy Turnstone
Wilson's Snipe
Mew Gull
Thayer's Gull
Glaucous-winged Gull
Yellow-footed Gull
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Ruddy-ground Dove
Lewis's Woodpecker
Gray Flycatcher
Eastern Phoebe
Vermilion Flycatcher
Gray Flycatcher
Tropical Kingbird
Eastern Phoebe
Mountain Bluebird
Western Bluebird
American Redstart
Savannah Sparrow (Large-billed)
White-throated Sparrow
Chestnut-collared Longspur
Common Grackle
- Transcript
Reports summarized this week are from San Bernardino, Riverside and
Imperial Counties.
SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY
Sandy Remley reported twelve CHUKAR at a private residence on Fire Road
2N02 near Baldwin Lake on November 29. She also reported two BALD EAGLES
at Eagle Point on the south shore of Big Bear Lake.
On December 2, Steve Druce reported a MOUNTAIN BLUEBIRD on the road to the
nature center near I 15 in Zzyzx.
RIVERSIDE COUNTY
On November 29, John Green reported a LEWIS’S WOODPECKER on a utility pole
next to the Sylvan Meadows Trailhead in the Santa Rosa Plateau Ecological
Reserve. To reach this area take Clinton Keith Road west from I 15. Pass
the entrance to the reserve. Clinton Keith will become Tenaja Road. Watch
for the signed trailhead which has parking lots on both sides of the
street.
On Thursday, November 30 Dan Williams reported from Lake Perris. He saw a
MEW GULL near the boat ramp at Bernasconi Beach and a ZONE-TAILED HAWK
over the northeastern most section of Lake Perris toward Davis Road. From
San Jacinto Wildlife Area he reported two VERMILION FLYCATCHERS just east
of Pond 2. There were two CHESTNUT-COLLARED LONGSPURS just past the gate
opposite Martin Street.
Sandy Swan reported the following sightings from the monthly walk at the
Coachella Valley Bird Center on Saturday, December 2: WOOD DUCK,
BUFFLEHEAD, COMMON MERGANSER, WILSON’S SNIPE and VERMILION FLYCATCHER.
Their next bird walk is Saturday January 6 at 8 am.
On December 4, Chet McGaugh reported a second EASTERN PHOEBE at San
Jacinto Wildlife Area. It was just beyond the “Marsh A” sign, near the
willow on the left side of the road. He reported that Doug Morton saw both
birds on Nov. 26. Chet also reported 500+ AMERICAN WHITE PELICANS at the
south end of Mystic Lake. Birders should be pleased that Bridge Street
has reopened.
IMPERIAL COUNTY
Jon Feenstra reported the following birds from the Salton Sea on November
30: 2 SURF SCOTER on shore north of Bowles Rd., PACIFC LOON at Sheldon
Reservoir,, ROUGHED LEGGED HAWK (light juvenile) near the intersection of
Drew and Diehl near Fig Lagoon, THAYER’S GULL near Lack and Lindsey,
GLAUCOUS-WINGED GULL at Obsidian Butte, 1 RUDDY GROUND-DOVE at Sperry and
Eddins, TROPICAL KINGBIRD on the golf course above fig lagoon, AMERICAN
REDSTART male at Wister Unit, and WHITE-THROATED SPARROW at the Wister
Unit.
On December 1 Guy McCaskie reported HOODED MERGANSER (11, including 2
adult males) on Fig Lagoon, PACIFIC LOON (One adult male), on Sheldon
Reservoir, a ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK immediately south of Fig Lagoon, a SOLITARY
SANDPIPER at Kuhn’s Dairy west of Seeley, a GRAY FLYCATCHER at Cattle Call
Park in Brawley, a TROPICAL KINGBIRD at Lakeview golf course, WESTERN
BLUEBIRD (6 at Cattle Call Park in Brawley), and a COMMON GRACKLE at
Kuhn’s Dairy west of Seeley.
From the Salton Sea on Friday, December 1, Bill Shelmerdine reported the
continuing PIPING PLOVER At Red Hill Marina near the boat ramp, YELLOW-
FOOTED GULL (one at Red Hill and two at Obsidian Butte). He also reported
a GLAUCOUS-WINGED GULL, and two LARGE-BILLED SAVANNAH SPARROWS at Obsidian
Butte.
Vic Leipzig also reported HOODED MERGANZERS (1 male 8 female) at Fig
Lagoon on Friday, November 24.
On December 3, Paul Jorgenson reported about 280 SANDHILL CRANES north of
the Holly Sugar facility on Keystone Rd at Barkleys Seed.
On Tuesday, December 5, AL and Linda Moreno reported the continuing
PACIFIC LOON at Sheldon Reservoir, as well as three COMMON GOLDENEYE,
three COMMON MERGANSERS, and four REDHEADS. From Fig Lagoon they reported
the continuing MERGANSERS, and a PRAIRIE FLCON and PEREGRINE FALCON on the
south bank of Fig Lagoon. At the fields south east of the corner of
Bowles St. and Lack there were at least 100 MOUNTAIN PLOVERS.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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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