RBA
*California
*Southeastern
*Case 2911.06
This is the Southeastern CA weekly RBA summary. We cover Imperial,
Riverside, and San Bernardino Counties.
Birds mentioned
American White Pelican
BLUE-FOOTED BOOBY
White-faced Ibis
Roseate Spoonbill
Greater White-fronted Goose
Ross's Goose
Snow Goose
Canada Goose
Surf Scoter
Barrow's Goldeneye
Red-breasted Merganser
Hooded Merganser
White-tailed Kite
Zone-tailed Hawk
Swainson's Hawk
Ferruginous Hawk
Rough-legged Hawk
Osprey
Golden Eagle
Bald Eagle
Prairie Falcon
Merlin
Peregrine Falcon
Snowy Plover
Mountain Plover
Solitary Sandpiper
Long-billed Curlew
Pomarine Jaeger
Bonaparte's Gull
Franklin's Gull
California Gull
Ring-billed Gull
Glaucous-winged Gull
Western Gull
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Heermann's Gull
White-winged Dove
Belted Kingfisher
Red-naped Sapsucker
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Eastern Phoebe
Vermilion Flycatcher
Mountain Chickadee
Mountain Bluebird
Western Bluebird
Sprague's Pipit
Clay-colored Sparrow
Slate-colored Junco
Great-tailed Grackle
- Transcript
Reports summarized this week are from San Bernardino, Riverside and
Imperial Counties.
SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY
Mike San Miguel birded the Colorado River at Parker Dam on Nov. 27
and saw at least 3 BARROW'S GOLDENEYE and a female SURF SCOTER in the
river immediately below the dam. About a mile further down stream, he
saw 3 HOODED MERGANSER. A YELLOW-BELLIED SAPSUCKER and a RED-NAPED
SAPSUCKER were in the tamarisks at the Quail Hollow day use area.
Cindy Lieurance sent in a report form the Barstow area on Nov. 23.
Highlights included a SNOWY PLOVER in the pond near the Sun Ray solar
panel facility, a WHITE-WINGED DOVE at Piute and Silver Valley Rds.
in Newberry Springs, and a CLAY-COLORED SPARROW in an abandoned
orchard west of Piute on Silver Valley Rd.
RIVERSIDE COUNTY
Larry La Pre spotted one of the MERLIN frequenting the area of 66th
and Lucretia in Mira Loma. He also counted WHITE-FACED IBIS at the
Van Buren Bridge and settling in the Riverside sewage plant ponds.
The two day total for ibis was 11,728. Madeline Bauer sent in a
report noting that the ivis are roosting at the Hidden Valley
Wildlife Area.
Chet McGaugh birded Mystic Lake and San Jacinto Wildlife Area on Nov.
27. Highlights included 45 GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GEESE, 19 CANADA
GEESE, 22 SNOW GEESE, 6 ROSS'S GEESE, many AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN,
good numbers of WHITE-TAILED KITE, PRAIRIE FALCON, PEREGRINE FALCON,
2 immature GOLDEN EAGLE, and several MOUNTAIN BLUEBIRD. Chet also
forwarded information from other birder who reported the continuing
EASTERN PHOEBE and a VERMILION FLYCATCHER at the Y on the way out to
the back ponds.
Roger Higson sent in several reports from the Blythe area. On Nov. 25
he had 2 ROSS'S GEESE, 1 LONG-BILLED CURLEW, 1 RING-BILLED GULL, 1
CALIFORNIA GULL, AND 2 BONAPARTE'S GULL. On Nov. 24, he found at
least 150 CEDAR WAXWINGS, 1 AMERICAN ROBIN, and 30+ LAWRENCE'S
GOLDFINCH. Nov. 24, he had good views of a CLAY-COLORED SPARROW and a
SLATE-COLORED JUNCO. Near Lovekin he had a PRAIRIE FALCON, MOUNTAIN
PLOVER, WESTERN BLUEBIRDS, and MOUNTAIN BLUEBIRDS. He also saw a
MOUNTAIN CHICKADEE. Roger also mentioned that many good birds have
been and are still being seen in the Blythe area, including a ZONE-
TAILED HAWK in the B&B bait area, SWAINSON'S HAWK, FERRUGINOUS HAWK,
ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK, OSPREY, MERLIN, PEREGRINE FALCON, WHITE-TAILED
KITE, SANDHILL CRANES, and WHITE-WINGED DOVE.
A posting from Prado Dam mentioned another family of MOUNTAIN
BLUEBIRD, a MERLIN, a SLATE-COLORED JUNCO, and a first year BALD
EAGLE. Birds were seen on Nov. 24.
Lidia Seebeck found a BELTED KINGFISHER at Fairmount Park on Nov. 23.
IMPERIAL COUNTY
Don Roberson birded the Salton Sea area on Nov. 27. Highlights
included: 2 HOODED MERGANSER at Fig Lagoon, 4 RED-BREASTED MERGANSER
near Lack and Lindsay, a BLUE-FOOTED BOOBY at the eastern side of
Mullet Island, a FERRUGINOUS HAWK AT Lack and Walker, a ROUGH-LEGGED
HAWKat Dyer and Diehl, a FRANKLIN'S GULL at Obsidian Butte, a
BONAPARTE'S GULL along Garst Rd., a lesser black-backed gull AT reD
Hill Marina, a SPRAGUE'S PIPIT in a field southwest of Hwy. 111 and
Sinclair Rd., and a partially leucistic female GREAT-TAILED GRACKLE
along the Alamo River.
In Guy McCaskie's report for Nov. 23, he noted the above birds as
well as these additional sightings: 2 SURF SCOTER near the west end
of Young Rd., 5 ROSEATE SPOONBILL perched in the dead tree at the
west end of Bowles Rd., 1 SOLITARY SANDPIPER at Kuhn's Dairy, 1
POMARINE JAEGER at the mouth of the Alamo River, 1 HEERMAN'S GULL at
the mouth of the Alamo River, 2 LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL at Red Hill,
3 WESTERN GULL at Red Hill, and 1 GLAUCOUS-WINGED GULL at the Alamo
River mouth.
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That's it for today. This summary is done weekly, usually on
Thursday.
Kirk and Linda Stitt
secalrba@...
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@... 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@...
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@...
INYO COUNTY Tom & Jo Heindel, P.O. Box 400, Big Pine CA 93513 E:
tjheindel@...
KERN COUNTY John Wilson 1425 Alta Vista, Bakersfield CA 93305 E:
jcwilson@...
RIVERSIDE COUNTY John F. Green, 3120 Mount Vernon Ave., Riverside,
CA 92507 E:bewickwren@...
SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY Alexander E. Koonce, 1357 Paige Lane,
Redlands, CA 92373 E: sandy_koonce@...
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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@...
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@... 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@...
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
*Case 2911.06
This is the Southeastern CA weekly RBA summary. We cover Imperial,
Riverside, and San Bernardino Counties.
Birds mentioned
American White Pelican
BLUE-FOOTED BOOBY
White-faced Ibis
Roseate Spoonbill
Greater White-fronted Goose
Ross's Goose
Snow Goose
Canada Goose
Surf Scoter
Barrow's Goldeneye
Red-breasted Merganser
Hooded Merganser
White-tailed Kite
Zone-tailed Hawk
Swainson's Hawk
Ferruginous Hawk
Rough-legged Hawk
Osprey
Golden Eagle
Bald Eagle
Prairie Falcon
Merlin
Peregrine Falcon
Snowy Plover
Mountain Plover
Solitary Sandpiper
Long-billed Curlew
Pomarine Jaeger
Bonaparte's Gull
Franklin's Gull
California Gull
Ring-billed Gull
Glaucous-winged Gull
Western Gull
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Heermann's Gull
White-winged Dove
Belted Kingfisher
Red-naped Sapsucker
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Eastern Phoebe
Vermilion Flycatcher
Mountain Chickadee
Mountain Bluebird
Western Bluebird
Sprague's Pipit
Clay-colored Sparrow
Slate-colored Junco
Great-tailed Grackle
- Transcript
Reports summarized this week are from San Bernardino, Riverside and
Imperial Counties.
SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY
Mike San Miguel birded the Colorado River at Parker Dam on Nov. 27
and saw at least 3 BARROW'S GOLDENEYE and a female SURF SCOTER in the
river immediately below the dam. About a mile further down stream, he
saw 3 HOODED MERGANSER. A YELLOW-BELLIED SAPSUCKER and a RED-NAPED
SAPSUCKER were in the tamarisks at the Quail Hollow day use area.
Cindy Lieurance sent in a report form the Barstow area on Nov. 23.
Highlights included a SNOWY PLOVER in the pond near the Sun Ray solar
panel facility, a WHITE-WINGED DOVE at Piute and Silver Valley Rds.
in Newberry Springs, and a CLAY-COLORED SPARROW in an abandoned
orchard west of Piute on Silver Valley Rd.
RIVERSIDE COUNTY
Larry La Pre spotted one of the MERLIN frequenting the area of 66th
and Lucretia in Mira Loma. He also counted WHITE-FACED IBIS at the
Van Buren Bridge and settling in the Riverside sewage plant ponds.
The two day total for ibis was 11,728. Madeline Bauer sent in a
report noting that the ivis are roosting at the Hidden Valley
Wildlife Area.
Chet McGaugh birded Mystic Lake and San Jacinto Wildlife Area on Nov.
27. Highlights included 45 GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GEESE, 19 CANADA
GEESE, 22 SNOW GEESE, 6 ROSS'S GEESE, many AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN,
good numbers of WHITE-TAILED KITE, PRAIRIE FALCON, PEREGRINE FALCON,
2 immature GOLDEN EAGLE, and several MOUNTAIN BLUEBIRD. Chet also
forwarded information from other birder who reported the continuing
EASTERN PHOEBE and a VERMILION FLYCATCHER at the Y on the way out to
the back ponds.
Roger Higson sent in several reports from the Blythe area. On Nov. 25
he had 2 ROSS'S GEESE, 1 LONG-BILLED CURLEW, 1 RING-BILLED GULL, 1
CALIFORNIA GULL, AND 2 BONAPARTE'S GULL. On Nov. 24, he found at
least 150 CEDAR WAXWINGS, 1 AMERICAN ROBIN, and 30+ LAWRENCE'S
GOLDFINCH. Nov. 24, he had good views of a CLAY-COLORED SPARROW and a
SLATE-COLORED JUNCO. Near Lovekin he had a PRAIRIE FALCON, MOUNTAIN
PLOVER, WESTERN BLUEBIRDS, and MOUNTAIN BLUEBIRDS. He also saw a
MOUNTAIN CHICKADEE. Roger also mentioned that many good birds have
been and are still being seen in the Blythe area, including a ZONE-
TAILED HAWK in the B&B bait area, SWAINSON'S HAWK, FERRUGINOUS HAWK,
ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK, OSPREY, MERLIN, PEREGRINE FALCON, WHITE-TAILED
KITE, SANDHILL CRANES, and WHITE-WINGED DOVE.
A posting from Prado Dam mentioned another family of MOUNTAIN
BLUEBIRD, a MERLIN, a SLATE-COLORED JUNCO, and a first year BALD
EAGLE. Birds were seen on Nov. 24.
Lidia Seebeck found a BELTED KINGFISHER at Fairmount Park on Nov. 23.
IMPERIAL COUNTY
Don Roberson birded the Salton Sea area on Nov. 27. Highlights
included: 2 HOODED MERGANSER at Fig Lagoon, 4 RED-BREASTED MERGANSER
near Lack and Lindsay, a BLUE-FOOTED BOOBY at the eastern side of
Mullet Island, a FERRUGINOUS HAWK AT Lack and Walker, a ROUGH-LEGGED
HAWKat Dyer and Diehl, a FRANKLIN'S GULL at Obsidian Butte, a
BONAPARTE'S GULL along Garst Rd., a lesser black-backed gull AT reD
Hill Marina, a SPRAGUE'S PIPIT in a field southwest of Hwy. 111 and
Sinclair Rd., and a partially leucistic female GREAT-TAILED GRACKLE
along the Alamo River.
In Guy McCaskie's report for Nov. 23, he noted the above birds as
well as these additional sightings: 2 SURF SCOTER near the west end
of Young Rd., 5 ROSEATE SPOONBILL perched in the dead tree at the
west end of Bowles Rd., 1 SOLITARY SANDPIPER at Kuhn's Dairy, 1
POMARINE JAEGER at the mouth of the Alamo River, 1 HEERMAN'S GULL at
the mouth of the Alamo River, 2 LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL at Red Hill,
3 WESTERN GULL at Red Hill, and 1 GLAUCOUS-WINGED GULL at the Alamo
River mouth.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
That's it for today. This summary is done weekly, usually on
Thursday.
Kirk and Linda Stitt
secalrba@...
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@... 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@...
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@...
INYO COUNTY Tom & Jo Heindel, P.O. Box 400, Big Pine CA 93513 E:
tjheindel@...
KERN COUNTY John Wilson 1425 Alta Vista, Bakersfield CA 93305 E:
jcwilson@...
RIVERSIDE COUNTY John F. Green, 3120 Mount Vernon Ave., Riverside,
CA 92507 E:bewickwren@...
SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY Alexander E. Koonce, 1357 Paige Lane,
Redlands, CA 92373 E: sandy_koonce@...
************
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@...
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@... 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@...
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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