- RBA
* California
* Southeastern
* September 22, 2005
* CASE0509.22
This is the Southeastern CA weekly RBA summary. We cover Imperial,
Riverside and San Bernardino Counties.
-Birds mentioned
Golden Eagle
Bobolink
Wood Duck
Least Flycatcher
Indigo Bunting
Plumbeous Vireo
Summer Tanager
Lucy’s Warbler
Clay-colored Sparrow
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Eurasian Collared Dove
Vermillion Flycatcher
Bank Swallow
Yellow-billed Chat
MacGillivray’s Warbler
Red-naped Sapsucker
American Redstart
American Bittern
Canada Geese
Chukar
Sandhill Crane
Mountain Plover
Marbled Godwit
Pectoral Sandpiper
Ruddy Ground Dove
Gila Woodpecker
Cedar Waxwing
White Pelican
Caspian Tern
California Gull
Northern Shoveler
Yellow-footed Gull
Brown Pelican
Peregrine Falcon
Laughing Gull
Common Tern
White-crowned Sparrow
Blue-winged Teal
Ruddy Turnstone
Baird’s Sandpiper
Ruff
Long-tailed Jaeger
Franklin’s Gull
- Transcript
Reports summarized this week are from San Bernardino, Riverside and Imperial
Counties.
SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY
Bill Hayes reported a GOLDEN EAGLE sitting on a telephone pole in Loma Linda
on Redlands Blvd just east of Anderson on September 13. Jim Pike reported a
BOBOLINK and a WOOD DUCK at the Baker sewage ponds located at the end of
Zzyzx Road on Friday, September 16. He also reported LEAST FLYCATCHER,
INDIGO BUNTING, PLUMBEOUS VIREO, and SUMMER TANAGER at other desert locales
last week. From the Tees and Trees Golf Course in Barstow, Howard King
reported a LUCY’S WARBLER and a CLAY-COLORED SPARROW as well as ELLOW-RUMPED
WARBLERS, RUBY-CROWNED KINGLETS, WHITE-CROWNED AND LINCOLN’S SPARROWS. Also
seen were EURASIAN COLLARED DOVES, VERMILLION FLYCATCHERS, BANK SWALLOW,
YELLOW BILLED CHAT and MacGILLIVRAY’S WARBLERS. Bill Deppe reported from
Horsethief Springs. The highlight was a CLAY-COLORED SPARROW near the old
house. He also reported many accipiters outnumbering the other birds. He
noted a number of migrants including several species of warblers, and a
couple RED-NAPED SAPSUCKERS. Horsethief Springs is the northeast section of
San Bernardino County in the Kingston Mountains. Take the Cima Road exit
from I-15 and travel about 30 miles until you reach the springs.
RIVERSIDE COUNTY
On Sunday September 18, John Green reported a female AMERICAN REDSTART in
his yard in Riverside. Roger Higson’s report from Blythe included AMERICAN
BITTERN, CANADA GEESE, CHUKARS, 11 exceptionally early SANDHILL CRANES
headed south (his first sighting this fall), 7 MOUNTAIN PLOVER, MARBLED
GODWIT, PECTORAL SANDPIPER, RUDDY GROUND DOVE, GILA WOODPECKERS, and CEDAR
WAXWING. On Monday and Tuesday of this week in the Whitewater River Delta,
Chet McGaugh reported thunder, lightning, rain, earthquakes and a full moon,
plus thousands of expected birds including WHITE PELICAN, CASPIAN TERN,
CALIFORNIA GULLS and NORTHERN SHOVELER. He also reported lesser numbers of
YELLOW-FOOTED GULLS, PEREGRINE FALCONS, and BROWN PELICANS.
IMPERIAL COUNTY
>From Monday and Tuesday of this week Chet McGaugh reported 200 LAUGHING
GULLS between Lack/Lindsey and Obsidian Butte, and one juvenile COMMON TERN
at Lack/Lindsey. He reported a WHITE-CROWNED SPARROW, an early pre fall
sighting near Slab City. On Tuesday, September 20, Guy McCaskie reported
plenty of water birds, but very few migrants. Species of special interest
included a flock of 10 BLUE-WINGED TEAL at the north end of Garst Road; 2
SANDHILL CRANES (his first sighting this fall) near the intersection of
Keystone and Dogwood Roads south of Brawley; 10 RUDDY TURNSTONES and one
BLACK TURNSTONE at the north end of Garst Road; 3 juvenile BAIRD’S
SANDPIPERS in an irrigated field at the intersection of Lindsey and Gentry
Roads; 2 juvenile PECTORAL SANDPIPERS (his first sighting this fall)at the
north end of Garst Road; a continuing adult male RUFF AT Obsidian Butte; a
juvenile LONG-TAILED JAEGER at Obsidian Butte; 2 first winter FRANKLIN’S
GULLS and a LAUGHING GULL in the irrigated field at the intersection of
Keystone and Dogwood Roads south of Brawley; and 10 COMMON TERNS NEAR
Johnson’s Landing in Salton City.
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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
* September 22, 2005
* CASE0509.22
This is the Southeastern CA weekly RBA summary. We cover Imperial,
Riverside and San Bernardino Counties.
-Birds mentioned
Golden Eagle
Bobolink
Wood Duck
Least Flycatcher
Indigo Bunting
Plumbeous Vireo
Summer Tanager
Lucy’s Warbler
Clay-colored Sparrow
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Eurasian Collared Dove
Vermillion Flycatcher
Bank Swallow
Yellow-billed Chat
MacGillivray’s Warbler
Red-naped Sapsucker
American Redstart
American Bittern
Canada Geese
Chukar
Sandhill Crane
Mountain Plover
Marbled Godwit
Pectoral Sandpiper
Ruddy Ground Dove
Gila Woodpecker
Cedar Waxwing
White Pelican
Caspian Tern
California Gull
Northern Shoveler
Yellow-footed Gull
Brown Pelican
Peregrine Falcon
Laughing Gull
Common Tern
White-crowned Sparrow
Blue-winged Teal
Ruddy Turnstone
Baird’s Sandpiper
Ruff
Long-tailed Jaeger
Franklin’s Gull
- Transcript
Reports summarized this week are from San Bernardino, Riverside and Imperial
Counties.
SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY
Bill Hayes reported a GOLDEN EAGLE sitting on a telephone pole in Loma Linda
on Redlands Blvd just east of Anderson on September 13. Jim Pike reported a
BOBOLINK and a WOOD DUCK at the Baker sewage ponds located at the end of
Zzyzx Road on Friday, September 16. He also reported LEAST FLYCATCHER,
INDIGO BUNTING, PLUMBEOUS VIREO, and SUMMER TANAGER at other desert locales
last week. From the Tees and Trees Golf Course in Barstow, Howard King
reported a LUCY’S WARBLER and a CLAY-COLORED SPARROW as well as ELLOW-RUMPED
WARBLERS, RUBY-CROWNED KINGLETS, WHITE-CROWNED AND LINCOLN’S SPARROWS. Also
seen were EURASIAN COLLARED DOVES, VERMILLION FLYCATCHERS, BANK SWALLOW,
YELLOW BILLED CHAT and MacGILLIVRAY’S WARBLERS. Bill Deppe reported from
Horsethief Springs. The highlight was a CLAY-COLORED SPARROW near the old
house. He also reported many accipiters outnumbering the other birds. He
noted a number of migrants including several species of warblers, and a
couple RED-NAPED SAPSUCKERS. Horsethief Springs is the northeast section of
San Bernardino County in the Kingston Mountains. Take the Cima Road exit
from I-15 and travel about 30 miles until you reach the springs.
RIVERSIDE COUNTY
On Sunday September 18, John Green reported a female AMERICAN REDSTART in
his yard in Riverside. Roger Higson’s report from Blythe included AMERICAN
BITTERN, CANADA GEESE, CHUKARS, 11 exceptionally early SANDHILL CRANES
headed south (his first sighting this fall), 7 MOUNTAIN PLOVER, MARBLED
GODWIT, PECTORAL SANDPIPER, RUDDY GROUND DOVE, GILA WOODPECKERS, and CEDAR
WAXWING. On Monday and Tuesday of this week in the Whitewater River Delta,
Chet McGaugh reported thunder, lightning, rain, earthquakes and a full moon,
plus thousands of expected birds including WHITE PELICAN, CASPIAN TERN,
CALIFORNIA GULLS and NORTHERN SHOVELER. He also reported lesser numbers of
YELLOW-FOOTED GULLS, PEREGRINE FALCONS, and BROWN PELICANS.
IMPERIAL COUNTY
>From Monday and Tuesday of this week Chet McGaugh reported 200 LAUGHING
GULLS between Lack/Lindsey and Obsidian Butte, and one juvenile COMMON TERN
at Lack/Lindsey. He reported a WHITE-CROWNED SPARROW, an early pre fall
sighting near Slab City. On Tuesday, September 20, Guy McCaskie reported
plenty of water birds, but very few migrants. Species of special interest
included a flock of 10 BLUE-WINGED TEAL at the north end of Garst Road; 2
SANDHILL CRANES (his first sighting this fall) near the intersection of
Keystone and Dogwood Roads south of Brawley; 10 RUDDY TURNSTONES and one
BLACK TURNSTONE at the north end of Garst Road; 3 juvenile BAIRD’S
SANDPIPERS in an irrigated field at the intersection of Lindsey and Gentry
Roads; 2 juvenile PECTORAL SANDPIPERS (his first sighting this fall)at the
north end of Garst Road; a continuing adult male RUFF AT Obsidian Butte; a
juvenile LONG-TAILED JAEGER at Obsidian Butte; 2 first winter FRANKLIN’S
GULLS and a LAUGHING GULL in the irrigated field at the intersection of
Keystone and Dogwood Roads south of Brawley; and 10 COMMON TERNS NEAR
Johnson’s Landing in Salton City.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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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