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03 Jul News from Tahquitz Valley, San Jacinto Mountains ["Philip Unitt" ] 02 Jul Blythe Birds. Monsoonal, no birds ["higson_roger" ] 02 Jul Southeastern CA RBA: July 2, 2009 [Tom Benson ] 01 Jul Apple Valley Cooper's Hawk ["jwbnav" ] 30 Jun Re: blythe birds RFI Cave Swallows [Joseph Morlan ] 30 Jun blythe birds RFI Cave Swallows ["higson_roger" ] 22 Jun RFI: PA Birders FIRST Visit to CAţţţ [Jeffery Davis ] 29 Jun RE: Swainson Hawks ["Koonce, Sandy" ] 29 Jun Swainson Hawks ["autumn.sparrow" ] 29 Jun blythe birds, day looking odd. ["higson_roger" ] 28 Jun San Bernardino Mtns addendum [] 29 Jun San Bernardino Mtns ["Howard King" ] 28 Jun Blythe birds and desseert warning ["higson_roger" ] 27 Jun Re: Imperial Valley and Salton Sea [Bob Miller ] 27 Jun South end of the Salton Sea - 26 June 2009 ["Guy" ] 26 Jun Imperial Valley and Salton Sea [Bob Miller ] 25 Jun Blythe birds A picture and a tale ["higson_roger" ] 25 Jun Southeastern CA RBA: June 25, 2009 [Tom Benson ] 24 Jun Blythe Birds For what it is worth ["higson_roger" ] 24 Jun Jess Ranch Lakes Pelican air show June 24 2009 ["jwbnav" ] 23 Jun RE: RFI Juniper Titmouse and/or Gilded Flicker on the way to Las Vegas ["Koonce, Sandy" ] 23 Jun RE: RFI Juniper Titmouse and/or Gilded Flicker on the way to Las Vegas ["Gray, Stanley K Civ USAF AFMC 912 AMXS/MXAC" ] 23 Jun blythe birds,Anyone know Shrikes? ["higson_roger" ] 23 Jun Wilson's Snipe in the Prado Basin ["vireos44" ] 23 Jun Re: RFI Juniper Titmouse and/or Gilded Flicker on the way to Las Vegas [Steve Sosensky ] 23 Jun RE: RFI Juniper Titmouse and/or Gilded Flicker on the way to Las Vegas [Jeffery Davis ] 23 Jun RFI Juniper Titmouse and/or Gilded Flicker on the way to Las Vegas ["thomasgezamiko" ] 22 Jun Blythe Birds Not much and a picture ["higson_roger" ] 22 Jun RFI: PA Birders FIRST Visit to CAţţţ [Jeffery Davis ] 22 Jun Re: J.Pike's SWTH ["dgingt22" ] 22 Jun Cal State birds [] 22 Jun SBE Mtns Swainson's Thrush ["vireos44" ] 21 Jun Garner Valley 6-21-09 ["Eric" ] 21 Jun Lake Hemet June 21. 09 ["Howard King" ] 21 Jun South end Salton Sea - 20 Jun 2009 ["Guy" ] 21 Jun scott's orioles ["eelmendorf3" ] 21 Jun NESS Saturday ["dgingt22" ] 18 Jun Re: Wood Stork question [Bob Miller ] 18 Jun Southeastern CA RBA: June 18, 2009 [Tom Benson ] 17 Jun Wood Stork question [Bob Miller ] 17 Jun Lesser Nighthawks and Wood Storks ["rdjagt" ] 16 Jun Purple Martin ["Howard King" ] 16 Jun Common Nighthawk ["Sandra Remley" ] 15 Jun Wood Storks @ the Salton Sea ["wolfberry01" ] 15 Jun Lake Elsinore Bronzed Cowbird ["vireos44" ] 15 Jun East Mojave June 13-14 ["vireos44" ] 15 Jun San Bernardino Mountains II ["Brad Singer" ] 14 Jun RE: What is this Bird? [Robert McKernan ] 14 Jun San Bernardino Mountains ["Koonce, Sandy" ] 13 Jun Re: What is this Bird? [Joseph Morlan ] 13 Jun Riverside County reports?: North American Birds - Spring 2009 ["bewickwren" ] 14 Jun What is this Bird? ["timura2" ] 13 Jun Re:Prado Regional Park ["Howard King" ] 13 Jun Re: Prado Regional Park ["Howard King" ] 13 Jun Blythe birds, Here sums commer ! And birds ["higson_roger" ] 13 Jun RE: Prado Regional Park ["Lidia Seebeck" ] 12 Jun Lake Skinner 12 June ["Dave Furseth" ] 12 Jun Salton Sea - 11 Jun 2009 ["Guy" ] 12 Jun Prado Regional Park ["Howard King" ] 11 Jun Southeastern CA RBA: June 11, 2009 [Tom Benson ] 11 Jun San Bernardino Mountains ["Brad Singer" ] 10 Jun blythe birds Cardinal.End of school ["higson_roger" ] 09 Jun RIV CO Blackpoll Warbler ["vireos44" ] 09 Jun blythe birds Cardinal ["higson_roger" ] 09 Jun Glen Helen vermillions ["dgingt22" ] 08 Jun Ibis, flycatchers, etc ["vireos44" ] 06 Jun Blythe birds and the end of the year at school ["higson_roger" ] 07 Jun Blythe birds, Cardinal. ["higson_roger" ] 6 Jun Salton Sea - 5 Jun 2009 ["Guy" ] 05 Jun Zzyzx - Possible Vesper Sparrow ["telcharnali" ] 05 Jun Mountain Bluebirds ["florockets" ] 05 Jun Southeastern CA RBA: June 4, 2009 [Tom Benson ] 5 Jun re: bird walk @ CVWBC Sat 6 June [] 04 Jun Hermit Warbler ["sillyrivergirl1" ] 04 Jun Mayflower Park Blythe Ca ["sillyrivergirl1" ] 3 Jun Fw: RE: Blythe Birds A reporting rethink [m schiffer ] Subject: News from Tahquitz Valley, San Jacinto Mountains From: "Philip Unitt" <unitt AT cox.net> Date: Fri, 03 Jul 2009 06:13:24 -0000 Dear friends, Our team from the San Diego Natural History Museum, with friends and supporters, visited the Tahquitz Valley area of the high San Jacinto Mountains last week (21-27 June) as part of our effort to retrace the steps of Joseph Grinnell and Harry Swarth in 1908. Our most important bird discovery, I think, was a thriving population of Lincoln's Sparrow. Grinnell and Swarth found it in this area, but Garrett and Dunn (1981) wrote that it occurred "formerly, at least," and Small (1994) wrote that it is "rare and irregular" there. I didn't know of any specific recent reports, so I feared that it was extirpated. Among Skunk Cabbage, Tahquitz, Little Tahquitz, and Reed's meadows, Lori Hargrove counted 18 territorial males. Several, at least, were paired, carrying insects, or feeding already fledged young. Even though they live in the dense grass and corn lilies (skunk cabbage) in the wet meadows, they frequently sing from exposed perches and fly over the tops of the meadows. So I suspect the numbers in 2009 are not too different from those Grinnell and Swarth encountered in 1908. Other birds of note: Peregrine Falcon, 1 around the summit of Tahquitz Peak, seen 25 June by Lori Hargrove and Marilyn Fogel. Might a pair nest on the nearby cliffs? Flammulated Owl, 1 heard the night of 25 June by Lori and me just south of Little Tahquitz Meadow. Calliope Hummingbird, 1 female seen 23 June by Lori. Williamson's Sapsucker, I found 1 pair at a nest on the NE flank of Tahquitz Peak on 26 June. American Dipper, 1 juvenile in Tahquitz Creek seen and photographed by Chris Swarth, Brad Hollingsworth, and Melissa Stepek on 22 June. Hermit Thrush: 3 heard singing by Lori Hargrove, one along the creek between Skunk Cabbage and Reed's meadows on 26 June, two along the Pacific Crest Trail southeast of Little Tahquitz Meadow on 22 and 23 June. We did not find 5 species definitely or probably breeding in the area in 1908: the Sharp-shinned Hawk, Cassin's Vireo, Ruby-crowned Kinglet, Golden-crowned Kinglet, and Chipping Sparrow. We are very grateful to the San Jacinto District of the San Bernardino National Forest and to the equestrian section of the Forest Service Volunteers' Association for making our study possible--we could not have got the gear needed for a week-long expedition up the Devil's Slide Trail without them. With 61 species of birds, 26 of mammals (including 14 of bats), and a new site for the endangered Mountain Yellow-legged Frog, it was a successful week. If anyone has observations of breeding Lincoln's Sparrows (or any other interesting bird, of course) in the San Jacinto Mountains, I would much appreciate hearing about them. Good birding, Phil Unitt Subject: Blythe Birds. Monsoonal, no birds From: "higson_roger" <art.higson AT verizon.net> Date: Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:16:20 -0000 greetings. If you are headed this way, then you had better be prepared. We are almost at nine am it is 53% humidity -IN MY HOME ! And out doors it is a pleasent 97 degrees. AC set at 85. You know you live in Blythe at this time of the year, when you visit some one they say, "Grab yourself a cold one and bring me one too" and you go look for their ice chest. You dont bother with the refridgerator. Thats for fruit and bread. It won't get cool enough to make a beverage ice cold ! Checked the usual spots, some fields being flooded. Found 2 peeps, after some effort got some pics. Bin views probably just Western and a Least. Enlarged computer shots Broad Billed and Spoonbilled, OK the heat has got to me !Do that post shower ! Sat here pondering if I should not just wring this shirt out and put it back in me !Outside it evaporates. PLease watch your pets and young children if you come here for 4 July, lots shade and water. THEY started pouring into Mayflower Park at Midnight. By THEY are mean the LA friends of the environment and meditation society, with their enviro cars. It is a treat to see them drive by with their recycling containers, and to hear the winsome susserations of native american music rippling in the breeze, as people hand make corn tortillas, and children enjoy macrame as the boats slide effortlessly and silently bearing environmentally thinking people along the river. As a good citizen I pointed out that the white things drifting by as in earlier years are not disposable diapers, but polar ice cap melt. SEE. I promised to be nice. Roger. 'The joys of the fourth "Higson Subject: Southeastern CA RBA: July 2, 2009 From: Tom Benson <tbenson AT csusb.edu> Date: Thu, 02 Jul 2009 13:25:57 -0700 RBA * California * Southeastern * July 2, 2009 * CASE0907.02 This is the Southeastern CA weekly RBA summary. We cover Imperial, Riverside, and San Bernardino Counties. California Bird Records Committee review species are denoted by asterisks. Names in the report are generally those of the reporting party and not necessarily the person claiming the first sighting. If you are receiving this report only through Birdwest, you can get MORE FREQUENT AND COMPREHENSIVE UPDATES by subscribing to inlandcountybirds (see below). The bird alert phone line housed at the San Bernardino County Museum is no longer in service. If you have a rare bird to report and must use a phone line, please call 909-648-0899. Birds mentioned: Greater White-fronted Goose Snow Goose Ross's Goose Brant Cackling Goose Gadwall Common Loon Reddish Egret Wood Stork Bald Eagle Heermann's Gull Western Gull Herring Gull Red-naped Sapsucker Vermilion Flycatcher Phainopepla Yellow-breasted Chat Indigo Bunting Bronzed Cowbird - Transcript SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY Six COMMON LOONS were seen at Big Bear Lake on Jun 28 and a RED-NAPED SAPSUCKER was seen in Green Canyon Jun 28-29 (Howard King, Eric Tipton). A BALD EAGLE was seen at Big Bear Lake on Jun 30 (Sandy Remley). RIVERSIDE COUNTY No reports. IMPERIAL COUNTY Nineteen WOOD STORKS were seen between Davis and Garst Road and a VERMILION FLYCATCHER was at Cattle Call Park on Jun 25 (Bob Miller). The following birds were reported from the Imperial Valley and the south end of the Salton Sea on Jun 26: a GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE and a CACKLING GOOSE at Sunbeam Lake, a SNOW GOOSE at the west end of Young Road, a ROSS'S GOOSE and a BRANT at Unit 1 SSNWR, a female GADWALL with 6 ducklings at Morton Bay, a REDDISH EGRET at Wister Unit, a HEERMANN'S GULLS at Rock Hill, 2 WESTERN GULLS at Obsidian Butte, a HERRING GULL at Red Hill, 5 PHAINOPEPLA and an INDIGO BUNTING near the intersection of Carter and Fites, a YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT at Wister Unit, and a BRONZED COWBIRD in Niland (Guy McCaskie). ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 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. 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 Tom Benson at tbenson AT csusb.edu or call (909) 648-0899. Note that the phone hotline is no longer available. Please submit your documentation of all California Bird Records Committee review species (denoted by asterisks) to: Guy McCaskie, Secretary, P.O. Box 275, Imperial Beach, CA 91933-0275, E-mail: guymcc AT pacbell.net Additionally, CBRC review species and birds of local or seasonal rarity should be reported to the "North American Birds" County Coordinators. They are: IMPERIAL COUNTY: Guy McCaskie, 954 Grove Avenue, Imperial Beach, CA 91932, guymcc AT pacbell.net INYO COUNTY: Tom & Jo Heindel, P.O. Box 400, Big Pine CA 93513, tjheindel AT aol.com KERN COUNTY: John Wilson 1425 Alta Vista, Bakersfield CA 93305, jcwilson AT lightspeed.net RIVERSIDE COUNTY: John F. Green, 3120 Mount Vernon Ave., Riverside, CA 92507, bewickwren AT earthlink.net SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY: Alexander E. Koonce, 1357 Paige Lane, Redlands, CA 92373, sandy_koonce AT redlands.edu ************ In addition the the Southeastern CA RBA, Los Angeles, Orange, Santa Barbara, and San Diego County reports are posted on BIRDWEST. To subscribe, send a message to LISTSERV AT LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU with SUBSCRIBE BIRDWEST YOUR NAME in the message (and YOUR NAME = your real name). 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/ Other birding listservs that include reports of birds in southern California are: Inyo County: http://www.esaudubon.org/birds/ Kern County: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kerncobirding Los Angeles County: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LACoBirds Pasadena area: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PasadenaAudubon Orange County: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/OrangeCountyBirding San Diego County: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SDBIRDS Santa Barbara County: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sbcobirding Ventura County: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/venturacobirding California (statewide): http://groups.yahoo.com/CALBIRDS ************ A schedule of San Bernardino Valley Audubon Society field trips is available on the SBVAS website at http://www.sbvas.org/calendar.htm Maps/directions to local birding sites are available on the SBVAS website at http://www.sbvas.org/maps.htm 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 report to (909) 648-0899 Southern California BIRDBOX (818) 952-5502 + 5 CalTip (CA Fish & Game) (800) 952-5400 (to report wildlife violations) -- For BirdWest archives go to http://listserv.arizona.edu/archives/birdwest.html To change your subscription options, including your address, go to http://listserv.arizona.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=birdwest To contact a listowner, send a message to mailto:birdwest-request AT listserv.arizona.edu ------------------------------------ To Post a message, send it to: inlandcountybirds AT eGroups.com To Unsubscribe, send a blank message to: inlandcountybirds-unsubscribe AT eGroups.comYahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/inlandcountybirds/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/inlandcountybirds/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:inlandcountybirds-digest AT yahoogroups.com mailto:inlandcountybirds-fullfeatured AT yahoogroups.com <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: inlandcountybirds-unsubscribe AT yahoogroups.com <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ Subject: Apple Valley Cooper's Hawk From: "jwbnav" <jwbnav AT verizon.net> Date: Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:57:31 -0000 A juvenile Cooper's Hawk was almost comical Monday as it was buffeted by stronger than usual day's end wind gusts while perched on our back fence in Solera, Apple Valley. In the 'Apple Valley Birds' album, I've posted a respectful photo along with one of a Mallard family of 10 which has roamed from the far north end of Solera to south on the Aspen Lodge pond in just over a week, including at least two daytime crossings of Apple Valley Road (speedway). John Breckenridge Mojave Desert Bird Club Meets 3rd Thursday of even numbered months Subject: Re: blythe birds RFI Cave Swallows From: Joseph Morlan <jmorlan AT gmail.com> Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:16:50 -0700 On Tue, 30 Jun 2009 19:24:34 -0000, "higson_roger" wrote: >Anyone with a good source of Cave Swallow pics? >Most helpful would be those described from Mexico, obviously the one I am messing with is not from the carribean, but some SA'S in N Am Birds on Baja Birds have made me ponder. Some photos are on the CBRC web site at: http://www.californiabirds.org/photos/index.html -- Joseph Morlan, Pacifica, CA jmorlan (at) ccsf.edu SF Birding Classes start Sept. 15 http://fog.ccsf.edu/~jmorlan/ California Bird Records Committee http://www.californiabirds.org/ Western Field Ornithologists http://www.westernfieldornithologists.org/ Subject: blythe birds RFI Cave Swallows From: "higson_roger" <art.higson AT verizon.net> Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 19:24:34 -0000 Greetings . Anyone with a good source of Cave Swallow pics? Most helpful would be those described from Mexico, obviously the one I am messing with is not from the carribean, but some SA'S in N Am Birds on Baja Birds have made me ponder. Thanks in advance. I am not suggesting that what I photod was anything but a mutant cliff. But it would be fun to rule it out !Hot, humid and overcast, very little of anything. So it is time to clutch at straws ! regards rh Subject: RFI: PA Birders FIRST Visit to CAţţţ From: Jeffery Davis <jwdjwd67 AT msn.com> Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:24:19 -0400 My wife Amy and I will be making our first ever birding trip to California (My first trip west of Pittsburgh!) in the beginning of July (7-11) and we would love some help with some good birding spots and/or recommendations on good books. We will fly in to Las Vegas and then drive to Placentia (Orange County) where we will be staying with family. We figured we would try and focus on CA Specialties that we wouldn't get elsewhere, say from a trip to AZ, but basically everything that is not an east coast bird will be a lifer to me unless it is in one of the east coast rarities we have been lucky enough to see (http://www.flickr.com/photos/jeffamy/sets/72157611025101702/). We are also wanting in life sea birds (e.g. Razorbill and Black Guillemot are our only Alcids!) so any tips of good locations for these would also be appreciated. BTW I would LOVE to see my first Burrowing Owl. It is the only East Coast Owl I haven't seen and photographed this year. Thank you all very much in advance. :) regards, jeff davis Downingtown, PA Checkout our bird photos at the link below: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jeffamy/ "Birding Like I Have Six Months To Live" [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Subject: RE: Swainson Hawks From: "Koonce, Sandy" <sandy_koonce AT redlands.edu> Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 08:46:48 -0700 If you are going to ask such questions (or indeed use this list) you need to identify yourself and say where you live. In answer to your question, you should be sure that you are indeed seeing Swainson's Hawks. This species migrates through southern CA in fall and spring, but does not stay. At this time of year, they should all be on their breeding grounds, which are almost all well north of here. If indeed there are Swainson's Hawks in the San Bernardino area, that would be almost completely unprecedented and would require very careful documentation. Sandy Sandy Koonce Department of Mathematics University of Redlands, Redlands, CA 92373 sandy_koonce AT redlands.edu -----Original Message----- From: inlandcountybirds AT yahoogroups.com on behalf of autumn.sparrow Sent: Mon 6/29/2009 6:57 AM To: inlandcountybirds AT yahoogroups.com Subject: [inlandcountybirds] Swainson Hawks I have 2 and occasionally 3 Swainson Hawks hanging out on my property. My sources says they do not normally live in the San Bernardino area. They are very beautiful, but very noisy. What do you all know about these birds? [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Subject: Swainson Hawks From: "autumn.sparrow" <autumn.sparrow AT yahoo.com> Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 13:57:19 -0000 I have 2 and occasionally 3 Swainson Hawks hanging out on my property. My sources says they do not normally live in the San Bernardino area. They are very beautiful, but very noisy. What do you all know about these birds? Subject: blythe birds, day looking odd. From: "higson_roger" <art.higson AT verizon.net> Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 14:22:09 -0000 Overcast, humid and already 86 F. A monsoonal front coming through. This could be good, if you hit the sea etc. Based on the sea birds I have found on my patch recently, very high numbers for the Desert. The reason for high hopes ? I just heard that REVS Jackson and Sharpton had arrived to glean from Jackos corpse. My vigil is over. I was headed for the truck to take a quick circuit. I have no intentions of claiming it, as all optics in my bag thus no evidence. But what was very much a Frigate Bird sp drifted over at a serious height, and was obviously tracking the river, I am less than 50 yards from it (the river). Simply a heads up. Wood Storks etc who knows, maybe July $ in the desert and the Sea. RHigson Subject: San Bernardino Mtns addendum From: Thomasabenson AT aol.com Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2009 22:13:12 -0400 After Howard and Brad quit early, Eric and I birded Green Canyon. Here Eric re-found an adult male Red-naped Sapsucker that he originally saw on June 20. I have posted 2 pics in the photo section under Tom's Pics for anybody that's interested. Tom Benson San Bernardino, CA [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Subject: San Bernardino Mtns From: "Howard King" <redhillbrd AT aol.com> Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 00:40:14 -0000 This morning I birded with Tom Benson, Eric Tipton and Brad Singer at Keller Peak, Big Bear Lake, Stanfield Marsh and Bluff Lake. Generally bird numbers seemed low but there were a few birds that I thought were of interest. On Big Bear Lake were 6 ratty looking COMMON LOONS. 2 CANADA GEESE on Stanfield was ominous. don't need any more feral geese around. There was a calling VIRGINIA RAIL at the marsh below Bluff Lake. In Dunn and Garrett only 2 montane records are listed. With this bird and another at the Baldwin Lake Sewage ponds for the 2nd year, something has changed, maybe just coverage. Eric had WILLET and LONG-BILLED CURLEW at Stanfield Marsh yesterday but they were gone today. Brad and I hsd to quit at mid day, hopefully Tom and Eric found something good later.. Howard King Subject: Blythe birds and desseert warning From: "higson_roger" <art.higson AT verizon.net> Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2009 12:40:28 -0000 greetings, I have 20 bucks says you can't eat a Klondike bar, after 12 noon without getting covered in it.You have to stand in the sun !Unless of course you want to ruin the leather in your chase Lexus. I am sure my desert Buddies Bill and Henry (not to forget ole frog) would like a piece of that bet.Yuma news said we only hit 109 yesterday, them guys hit 110.If you have never birded the night in the desert like Bob did, you are short changing yourself. Even the early am is beautiful, but still warm. I finished mowing the lawn at 4:30, a mere 84, and 45 % humidity. We had a Tern invasion, which continues, yesterday I had 9 Caspian terns scattered around the valley, a largish one I think was an Elegant, and a river fly by Forsters (?) no bins. Stood watching the clods drift in, 3 squarking Caspians flew over. Good start to the day. Well shower time, and organize for USA vs Brazil FIFA football cup. OK so I mowed the lawn in my cotten night shirt, why the concern SWMBO. BY the way Michael Jackson is not dead,he was in Albertsons yesterday with Elvis. I would have to re-evaluate the number of Aberts Towhees out here if I had counted them any month but this.Every strip of Oleaanders and shrubbery has at least 3 ads being chased by imms. Enjoy the day. Oh yes, it is football not "soccer". US "football" is nothing but siiy sissy girly boy Rugby. Oh I have about 75 pics of an odd Cliff Swallow, I need to research Mexican races, but it can wait.. Please check on elderly neighbours and make sure your pets are in, or at least have shade and water. Thankyou. rh Oh Wacko is dead, just a joke about Elvis, Elvis was by himself. Subject: Re: Imperial Valley and Salton Sea From: Bob Miller <bob.miller AT mindspring.com> Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2009 16:55:36 -0700 (GMT-07:00) Hi all, Guy pointed out an incorrect bird in my recent post. Thank you for catching that guy! We did not have a large flock of Dowitchers. They were Long-billed Curlew. Our night walk in the dunes last night was awesome! Coyotes howling, geckos, Lesser Nighthawk calling, MANY scorpions and numerous insects that I have never seen before! One katydid was as pretty and colorful as anything you would expect to find in a rain forest. -----Original Message----- >From: Bob Miller >Sent: Jun 26, 2009 4:33 PM >To: inlandcountybirds AT yahoogroups.com >Subject: [inlandcountybirds] Imperial Valley and Salton Sea > >Hi all, > >Spent the day, 6-25, birding the Imperial Valley and the Salton Sea with Breffni from Ireland and had a truly great day. Got a bit warm late afternoon but no one expected different although the monsoon flow was pushing in pretty good from the south and it looked for a while that we might get a thunderstorm out of it but it never happened. Made for one of those sunsets at Finney Lake that are unforgettable to say the least. > >A few notable birds of the day. An adult male Vermilion Flycatcher at Cattle Call Park was a big surprise. One lone Long-billed Dowitcher at Lack and Lindsey and one lone Western Sandpiper at the north end on Garst Road on Morton Bay that was with a male and female Snowy Plover. Nineteen (19) Wood Stork were between Garst and Davis Roads on the north side of Schrimp Road. One Whimbrel and several Marbled Godwit seen with a large flock of Long-billed Dowitcher along Garst Road. Massive numbers of Cliff Swallow coming to roost at Finney Lake literally frosted the phragmites. Over a thousand Black-necked Stilt gathered in the small pond on the left of Garst Road when you hit the sea wall had a large number of immatures in the mix and appeared to be massing to leave out soon although MANY Black-necked Stilt are scattered all across the valley in every stage from sitting on nests to long-legged fuzz balls zipping along the shore. Numerous young American Coot and Common Moorhen with their top notch so red it looks like they are on fire. Fantastic spot to see and photograph them is along the east side of the East Highline Canal by going east from downtown Niland and south just as you cross the EHL canal. There is a long narrow pong that follows the road for a long ways at the fish farm. Young Burrowing Owls still the their warm brown juvenile plumage are everywhere so right now is a good time to photograph them as well. One female Northern Harrier at Davis and Pound Roads. Only one Lesser Night-Hawk was found in the Tamarisk trees at Finney Lake which I thought was strange. Several Least Bittern were active around the lake. > >Okay, gotta run. Going for a night walk through the Algodones Dunes with black lights (UV) tonight. Think creepy crawlers that glow in the dark! > > (!__!) > (0V0) HAPPY BIRDING > {}~~{} BOB MILLER > ='''='''== > >Southwest Birders >Brawley, CA. 92227 >Imperial County >760-455-1413 >http://www.southwestbirders.com >bob.miller AT mindspring.com (!__!) (0V0) HAPPY BIRDING {}~~{} BOB MILLER ='''='''== Southwest Birders Brawley, CA. 92227 Imperial County 760-455-1413 http://www.southwestbirders.com bob.miller AT mindspring.com Subject: South end of the Salton Sea - 26 June 2009 From: "Guy" <guymcc AT pacbell.net> Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2009 16:25:47 -0700 I spent Friday, 26 Jun 2009 (5:30 AM to 4:30 PM) birding select locations in the Imperial Valley from Fig Lagoon northward to Niland, and along the south shore of the Salton Sea between the Wister Unit and the north end of Poe Road. It was clear with very little wind, and with temperatures ranging from 75 to 105 degrees. Species of note (to me) included - Greater White-fronted Goose (1 - one continuing at Sunbeam Lake near Seeley with resident "domestic geese"), Snow Goose (1 - one "cripple" at the west end of Young Road), Ross's Goose (1 - one "cripple" at Unit 1 of the Salton Sea National Wildlife Refuge), Cackling Goose (1 - one leucopareia continuing at Sunbeam Lake near Seeley with resident "domestic geese"), Brant (1 - one at Unit 1 of the Salton Sea National Wildlife Refuge was the same bird seen here 5 June), Gadwall (20 - including a female with six very young ducklings at Morton Bay provides evidence for only the second occurrence of nesting at the Salton Sink), Reddish Egret (1 - one immature near the southwest corner of the Wister Unit was the same bird seen here on 20 June), Laughing Gull (6 - six adults in alternate-plumage at various places along the south shore of the Salton Sea were assumed to be the first of the post breeding birds moving north from the Gulf of California), Heermann's Gull (1 - one adult sitting on a nest at Rock Hill), Western Gull (2 - two first-summer plumage birds together near Obsidian Butte), Yellow-footed Gull (50 - fifty adults along the shore of the Salton Sea), California Gull (600 - including adults with "chicks" near the south end of Davis Road, Rock Hill and Obsidian Butte), Herring Gull (1 - one worn and somewhat sick looking bird at Red Hill is undoubtedly summering locally), Ash-throated Flycatcher (1 - one at the southern edge of Niland may have been an early fall migrant. This species is not recorded nesting around the south end of the Salton Sea/Imperial Valley), Phainopepla (5 - five together near the intersection of Carter and Fites Roads southwest of Brawley. This species is normally not present in the Imperial Valley in summer), Yellow-breasted Chat (1 - one singing at the Wister Unit HQ. This species is now rare as a breeding bird in the Imperial Valley), Indigo Bunting (1 - one adult male near the intersection of Carter and Fites Roads southwest of Brawley was only the third that I have encountered in the Salton Sink), Bronzed Cowbird (1 - one female in Niland) and Lesser Goldfinch (2 - two together at the Wister Unit HQ. This species is quite rare in the Imperial Valley in summer). Shorebirds seen - Black-bellied Plover (60 - all in basic-plumage and most near the mouth of the New River so probably summering locally), Snowy Plover (30 - including some young of the year at the north end of Poe Road), Killdeer (25), Black-necked Stilt (3000), American Avocet (1500), Greater Yellowlegs (12 - all in worn alternate-plumage so recently arrived fall migrants), Willet (50 - many in worn alternate-plumage so recently arrived fall migrants), Lesser Yellowlegs (3 - all three in worn alternate-plumage so recently arrived fall migrants), Long-billed Curlew (250), Marbled Godwit (75), Western Sandpiper (60 - all in worn alternate-plumage so recently arrived fall migrants), Least Sandpiper (1 - one in worn alternate-plumage so a recently arrived fall migrant), Long-billed Dowitcher (6 - six together in worn alternate-plumage at Morton Bay so recently arrived fall migrants), Wilson's Phalarope (2500 - most adult females as expected), Red-necked Phalarope (2 - two together at Unit 1 of the Salton Sea National Wildlife Refuge in alternate-plumage so recently arrived fall migrants). Guy McCaskie 954 Grove Avenue Imperial Beach, CA 91932 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Subject: Imperial Valley and Salton Sea From: Bob Miller <bob.miller AT mindspring.com> Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 19:33:14 -0400 (EDT) Hi all, Spent the day, 6-25, birding the Imperial Valley and the Salton Sea with Breffni from Ireland and had a truly great day. Got a bit warm late afternoon but no one expected different although the monsoon flow was pushing in pretty good from the south and it looked for a while that we might get a thunderstorm out of it but it never happened. Made for one of those sunsets at Finney Lake that are unforgettable to say the least. A few notable birds of the day. An adult male Vermilion Flycatcher at Cattle Call Park was a big surprise. One lone Long-billed Dowitcher at Lack and Lindsey and one lone Western Sandpiper at the north end on Garst Road on Morton Bay that was with a male and female Snowy Plover. Nineteen (19) Wood Stork were between Garst and Davis Roads on the north side of Schrimp Road. One Whimbrel and several Marbled Godwit seen with a large flock of Long-billed Dowitcher along Garst Road. Massive numbers of Cliff Swallow coming to roost at Finney Lake literally frosted the phragmites. Over a thousand Black-necked Stilt gathered in the small pond on the left of Garst Road when you hit the sea wall had a large number of immatures in the mix and appeared to be massing to leave out soon although MANY Black-necked Stilt are scattered all across the valley in every stage from sitting on nests to long-legged fuzz balls zipping along the shore. Numerous young American Coot and Common Moorhen with their top notch so red it looks like they are on fire. Fantastic spot to see and photograph them is along the east side of the East Highline Canal by going east from downtown Niland and south just as you cross the EHL canal. There is a long narrow pong that follows the road for a long ways at the fish farm. Young Burrowing Owls still the their warm brown juvenile plumage are everywhere so right now is a good time to photograph them as well. One female Northern Harrier at Davis and Pound Roads. Only one Lesser Night-Hawk was found in the Tamarisk trees at Finney Lake which I thought was strange. Several Least Bittern were active around the lake. Okay, gotta run. Going for a night walk through the Algodones Dunes with black lights (UV) tonight. Think creepy crawlers that glow in the dark! (!__!) (0V0) HAPPY BIRDING {}~~{} BOB MILLER ='''='''== Southwest Birders Brawley, CA. 92227 Imperial County 760-455-1413 http://www.southwestbirders.com bob.miller AT mindspring.com Subject: Blythe birds A picture and a tale From: "higson_roger" <art.higson AT verizon.net> Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 23:35:49 -0000 Greetings. I am going to post a picture, I will post the tale behind it on my Blog site. blythebirdsandsilliness.blogspot.com/ Thusly not offending "Professional " photographers, Oh and my "July 4th weekend Here comes the dregs of the West coast ......" Review , Will not be mentioned on this site at all. See I can be somewhat pleasent, out here in the east. Too much fun to pull the truck over, in 105 heat, and stand in the rain. As brief as it was , you could look back and see others doing the same.. Hmm swmbo really just told me as I type this Michael Jackson died, I must confess I am saddened , he was a brilliant military tactician and a person this countrry should be proud of, and I was amazed he lived this long. Went back to reading. Perfect Neighbour Joe pointed out that was Andrew Jackson.Breaking news Now Farrah Faucett died within minutes of the sad news I am informed. OH. Perfect neighbour Joe told me not to be upset, as he has a garage full of taps. Does no one care about Darfhur any more, cancer, aids and the lack of money for education any more. STOP Later rh Subject: Southeastern CA RBA: June 25, 2009 From: Tom Benson <tbenson AT csusb.edu> Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 13:24:44 -0700 RBA * California * Southeastern * June 25, 2009 * CASE0906.25 This is the Southeastern CA weekly RBA summary. We cover Imperial, Riverside, and San Bernardino Counties. California Bird Records Committee review species are denoted by asterisks. Names in the report are generally those of the reporting party and not necessarily the person claiming the first sighting. If you are receiving this report only through Birdwest, you can get MORE FREQUENT AND COMPREHENSIVE UPDATES by subscribing to inlandcountybirds (see below). The bird alert phone line housed at the San Bernardino County Museum is no longer in service. If you have a rare bird to report and must use a phone line, please call 909-648-0899. Birds mentioned: Greater White-fronted Goose Ross's Goose Cackling Goose Brant Blue-winged Teal Red-breasted Merganser Common Loon Reddish Egret Wood Stork Bald Eagle Red-tailed Hawk Heermann's Gull Vermilion Flycatcher Brown-crested Flycatcher Swainson's Thrush Phainopepla Bronzed Cowbird - Transcript SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY A SWAINSON'S THRUSH was heard near Fish Creek in the San Bernardino Moutains on Jun 20 (Jim Pike). Three pairs of VERMILION FLYCATCHERS continued at Cal State San Bernardino on Jun 21 (Tom Benson). RIVERSIDE COUNTY Four COMMON LOONS and 5 RED-BREASTED MERGANSERS were at the north end of the Salton Sea, and a BROWN-CRESTED FLYCATCHER and a BRONZED COWBIRD continued at the Palm Island Drive nursery in Mecca on Jun 20 (Dave Goodward). An adult BALD EAGLE was seen at Lake Hemet on Jun 21 (Howard King). IMPERIAL COUNTY The following birds were reported from the Imperial Valley and south end of the Salton Sea on Jun 20: GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE and CACKLING GOOSE at Sunbeam Lake, a ROSS'S GOOSE and a BRANT at Unit 1 SSNWR, 3 BLUE-WINGED TEAL at Morton Bay (1) and the west end of Young Road (2), a REDDISH EGRET at Wister Unit, 6 WOOD STORKS, a RED-TAILED HAWK along Poe Road, 2 HEERMANN'S GULLS at Rock Hill and Sheldon Reservoir, a PHAINOPEPLA in Calipatria, and a BRONZED COWBIRD at Sheldon Reservoir (Guy McCaskie). ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 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. 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 Tom Benson at tbenson AT csusb.edu or call (909) 648-0899. Note that the phone hotline is no longer available. Please submit your documentation of all California Bird Records Committee review species (denoted by asterisks) to: Guy McCaskie, Secretary, P.O. Box 275, Imperial Beach, CA 91933-0275, E-mail: guymcc AT pacbell.net Additionally, CBRC review species and birds of local or seasonal rarity should be reported to the "North American Birds" County Coordinators. 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Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/inlandcountybirds/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/inlandcountybirds/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:inlandcountybirds-digest AT yahoogroups.com mailto:inlandcountybirds-fullfeatured AT yahoogroups.com <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: inlandcountybirds-unsubscribe AT yahoogroups.com <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ Subject: Blythe Birds For what it is worth From: "higson_roger" <art.higson AT verizon.net> Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 23:08:54 -0000 Greetings. Realising their status is not WONDERFUL !It was a mind boggler to find a very very worn plumage AD Snowy Plover with what looked like a silver band on the left leg with 2 Juvs, out on a sand bar in the river. Its 108 right now! We started at 4 am with 72. I am sure most of you started lower. So just for fun. What would you be doing now if the temp had dropped 36 degress. The news said 65 at 4 am in Malibu ?, this now puts you at 29 !Seems different when you look at it that way Don't worry, like folks tell me "Its a dry cold ! Roger Blythe Subject: Jess Ranch Lakes Pelican air show June 24 2009 From: "jwbnav" <jwbnav AT verizon.net> Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 21:06:21 -0000 At 12noon I found 3 American White Pelicans beginning departure of Jess Ranch Lake 3. First, one circled the area twice (testing the air?), then two others joined and they circled the complex 4 times, found some lift and proceeded to slowly move NW in tight thermal circles around 500' high. What an nice show! I've posted pictures within 'Apple Valley Birds' album. John Breckenridge Apple Valley Mojave Desert Bird Club Meets 3rd Thursday of even numbered months Subject: RE: RFI Juniper Titmouse and/or Gilded Flicker on the way to Las Vegas From: "Koonce, Sandy" <sandy_koonce AT redlands.edu> Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:24:09 -0700 Just a note about fllickers in the East Mojave for anyone who might be out there: one needs to be careful with identification. Red-shafted occurs out here as well as Gilded, and I have personally seen a mating between the two with offspring. So hybrids are a definite possibility. Sandy Sandy Koonce Department of Mathematics University of Redlands, Redlands, CA 92373 sandy_koonce AT redlands.edu ________________________________ From: inlandcountybirds AT yahoogroups.com on behalf of Steve Sosensky Sent: Tue 6/23/2009 10:25 AM To: inlandcountybirds AT yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [inlandcountybirds] RFI Juniper Titmouse and/or Gilded Flicker on the way to Las Vegas Tom, The traditional place for Juniper Titmouse is Mid Hills Campground, easily found on the East Mojave Preserve map. In past years, I've found them around campsite 12, but this year they were at the south end of the junipers inside the loop road. This year, we had a few in Caruthers Canyon where the oaks start as you head up canyon. Also in this area were Black-chinned Sparrows. I dipped on Gilded Flicker this year. When I find them it's either along Cima Road or on Powerline Road (the dirt road along the power lines just north of Cima). At 09:57 PM 2009-06-22, thomasgezamiko wrote: >I need to go to Las Vegas for a medical conference next month, and >would like to try for Juniper Titmouse and/or Gilded Flicker (in >SBDo County)while driving a low-clearance sports car. I have Brad >Scramm's book, but would like to get input from anybody who has >sought these 2 species within the recent past. Good birding, Steve Sosensky, SoCA Bird Guides www.sosensky.com/guides Nature Photos www.sosensky.com/nature_photos.htm Optics4Birding www.optics4birding.com Aliso Viejo, CA 92656 949-269-2161 33.56485 N, 117.72205 W [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Subject: RE: RFI Juniper Titmouse and/or Gilded Flicker on the way to Las Vegas From: "Gray, Stanley K Civ USAF AFMC 912 AMXS/MXAC" <stan.gray AT edwards.af.mil> Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:16:03 -0700 Tom, The Titmouse is hard to miss at Mid Hills. And if you can get a spot that still has trees, it's actually a nice area to camp a night to break up the drive to Vegas. The Flicker on the other hand can take a bit more work and some driving (in the Joshua forest). Try the dirt road along the power lines. There is a nice little place north east of Vegas called corn Springs Station I believe, that is sort of a little migrant trap-and some good shore birding at the sewage ponds in Henderson. Good luck Stan Gray -----Original Message----- From: inlandcountybirds AT yahoogroups.com [mailto:inlandcountybirds AT yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Steve Sosensky Sent: 2009/06/23 10:25 AM To: inlandcountybirds AT yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [inlandcountybirds] RFI Juniper Titmouse and/or Gilded Flicker on the way to Las Vegas Tom, The traditional place for Juniper Titmouse is Mid Hills Campground, easily found on the East Mojave Preserve map. In past years, I've found them around campsite 12, but this year they were at the south end of the junipers inside the loop road. This year, we had a few in Caruthers Canyon where the oaks start as you head up canyon. Also in this area were Black-chinned Sparrows. I dipped on Gilded Flicker this year. When I find them it's either along Cima Road or on Powerline Road (the dirt road along the power lines just north of Cima). At 09:57 PM 2009-06-22, thomasgezamiko wrote: >I need to go to Las Vegas for a medical conference next month, and >would like to try for Juniper Titmouse and/or Gilded Flicker (in >SBDo County)while driving a low-clearance sports car. I have Brad >Scramm's book, but would like to get input from anybody who has >sought these 2 species within the recent past. Good birding, Steve Sosensky, SoCA Bird Guides www.sosensky.com/guides Nature Photos www.sosensky.com/nature_photos.htm Optics4Birding www.optics4birding.com Aliso Viejo, CA 92656 949-269-2161 33.56485 N, 117.72205 W ------------------------------------ To Post a message, send it to: inlandcountybirds AT eGroups.com To Unsubscribe, send a blank message to: inlandcountybirds-unsubscribe AT eGroups.comYahoo! Groups Links Subject: blythe birds,Anyone know Shrikes? From: "higson_roger" <art.higson AT verizon.net> Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 21:34:45 -0000 greetings I was out swanning around when I saw a Scrub Jay at vast distance. It flew perched and bounced like an Island Scrub Jay, so I pursued it Obviously was none of the above photo en route. Got close enough, may be just a young bird on spring break full of vim and vigouor. Its posture was so bizarre and behaviour equally so. Pic headedd in ! Roger Subject: Wilson's Snipe in the Prado Basin From: "vireos44" <jpike44 AT earthlink.net> Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 21:01:10 -0000 Hi, Two Wilson's Snipe were in a mostly dry pond devoid of vegetation in the Prado Basin (RIV CO) today. I wouldn't have noticed them if not for the fact I was scanning the pond for avocet, stilt and Killdeer nests before water was put back in. Very odd date. I'll recheck to see if they're summering. Jim Pike Huntington Beach Subject: Re: RFI Juniper Titmouse and/or Gilded Flicker on the way to Las Vegas From: Steve Sosensky <mobile AT sosensky.com> Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 10:25:19 -0700 Tom, The traditional place for Juniper Titmouse is Mid Hills Campground, easily found on the East Mojave Preserve map. In past years, I've found them around campsite 12, but this year they were at the south end of the junipers inside the loop road. This year, we had a few in Caruthers Canyon where the oaks start as you head up canyon. Also in this area were Black-chinned Sparrows. I dipped on Gilded Flicker this year. When I find them it's either along Cima Road or on Powerline Road (the dirt road along the power lines just north of Cima). At 09:57 PM 2009-06-22, thomasgezamiko wrote: >I need to go to Las Vegas for a medical conference next month, and >would like to try for Juniper Titmouse and/or Gilded Flicker (in >SBDo County)while driving a low-clearance sports car. I have Brad >Scramm's book, but would like to get input from anybody who has >sought these 2 species within the recent past. Good birding, Steve Sosensky, SoCA Bird Guides www.sosensky.com/guides Nature Photos www.sosensky.com/nature_photos.htm Optics4Birding www.optics4birding.com Aliso Viejo, CA 92656 949-269-2161 33.56485 N, 117.72205 W Subject: RE: RFI Juniper Titmouse and/or Gilded Flicker on the way to Las Vegas From: Jeffery Davis <jwdjwd67 AT msn.com> Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 08:09:57 -0400 Amy and I would love to hear about these as well. Thanks! regards, jeff Downingtown, PA Checkout our bird photos at the link below: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jeffamy/ "Birding Like I Have Six Months To Live" To: inlandcountybirds AT yahoogroups.com From: thomas.miko AT verizon.net Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 04:57:34 +0000 Subject: [inlandcountybirds] RFI Juniper Titmouse and/or Gilded Flicker on the way to Las Vegas Howdy! I need to go to Las Vegas for a medical conference next month, and would like to try for Juniper Titmouse and/or Gilded Flicker (in SBDo County)while driving a low-clearance sports car. I have Brad Scramm's book, but would like to get input from anybody who has sought these 2 species within the recent past. Tom Miko [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Subject: RFI Juniper Titmouse and/or Gilded Flicker on the way to Las Vegas From: "thomasgezamiko" <thomas.miko AT verizon.net> Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 04:57:34 -0000 Howdy! I need to go to Las Vegas for a medical conference next month, and would like to try for Juniper Titmouse and/or Gilded Flicker (in SBDo County)while driving a low-clearance sports car. I have Brad Scramm's book, but would like to get input from anybody who has sought these 2 species within the recent past. Tom Miko Subject: Blythe Birds Not much and a picture From: "higson_roger" <art.higson AT verizon.net> Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 21:54:03 -0000 Awefully quiet The mornings are gorgeous, 'tis the time of the year to get to know the locals, and hope for early waders. A Ring B Gull was exciting, a chum had a possible Jaeger, a loosly assorted clump of drift by rubbish, actually was a haggard loon, SWMBO and I were wandering down "the Pecan Road with the pond at the end", with the rescue muffins, labelled tagged vaccinated microchipped leashed, neutered spayed, all of the above clear proof of legal residence and also carrying five kinds of id,approved by PETA, NAFTA, and PAM Oh thats "Sam I am" The oh we are going to put him down in half an hour multi cross Dr Seuss dog and his "Hello, I have no idea why the Hell I am wandering around in the middle of the desert in July, do you?" Jack Russell find Stormin Normin. And a YB Cuckoo, dropped in front, three or four hops a pause, and into the trees. Oh the picture. I now have a personal duel, with this soddin little bird. I will find its nest, this is just a 35mm lens set up, a little crop, a touch of photoshop, and a hose off in the back yard and I am going to strangle it the next time I get this close, got a good relationship going on with a Pied Billed. Why ? I get tired of "After 17 years, of pampered deprivation during the photogenic bits , countless dollars and, and Mutinational coopereration we present, never before seen footage, using multi million dollar state of the art equipment" etc etc I have never been there, nice picture, hooray. Now I know people who have crawled around in ditches in the heat looking for Least Bitterns and need them as a lifer more than they need eye teeth. I know I will never see a mating Snow Leopard, so what. But I do know people who put hours into photoing local birds who can tip their hats to your efforts. Get a digi cam find a ditch, jump in, lets get some pics flying. Looking for leeches in all the wrong places Roger Subject: RFI: PA Birders FIRST Visit to CAţţţ From: Jeffery Davis <jwdjwd67 AT msn.com> Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:24:19 -0400 My wife Amy and I will be making our first ever birding trip to California (My first trip west of Pittsburgh!) in the beginning of July (7-11) and we would love some help with some good birding spots and/or recommendations on good books. We will fly in to Las Vegas and then drive to Placentia (Orange County) where we will be staying with family. We figured we would try and focus on CA Specialties that we wouldn't get elsewhere, say from a trip to AZ, but basically everything that is not an east coast bird will be a lifer to me unless it is in one of the east coast rarities we have been lucky enough to see (http://www.flickr.com/photos/jeffamy/sets/72157611025101702/). We are also wanting in life sea birds (e.g. Razorbill and Black Guillemot are our only Alcids!) so any tips of good locations for these would also be appreciated. BTW I would LOVE to see my first Burrowing Owl. It is the only East Coast Owl I haven't seen and photographed this year. Thank you all very much in advance. :) regards, jeff Downingtown, PA Checkout our bird photos at the link below: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jeffamy/ "Birding Like I Have Six Months To Live" [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Subject: Re: J.Pike's SWTH From: "dgingt22" <davegoodward AT earthlink.net> Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 14:42:48 -0000 Jim's observation of a singing Swainson's thrush at Fish Creek in the San Bernardino Mountains puts a sighting of mine last year in perspective. I saw a calling SWTH at the middle Arrastre Creek crossing last year on July 3. Perhaps a post-breeding wanderer from Fish Creek? Just a possibility. Dave Subject: Cal State birds From: Thomasabenson AT aol.com Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 10:31:02 -0400 I birded Cal State San Bernardino yesterday morning (21 Jun) and found 3 pairs of Vermilion Flycatchers with active nests on the athletic fields. One of the nests had at least 1 nestling being fed. Also unusual for the campus was an Ash-throated Flycatcher (late migrant?) near the Children's Center. Good birding, Tom Benson San Bernardino, CA [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Subject: SBE Mtns Swainson's Thrush From: "vireos44" <jpike44 AT earthlink.net> Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 04:05:32 -0000 Hi, One of the highlights of my yearly camping jaunts to the Fish Creek area of the San Bernardino Mountains above Heart Bar campground (>7000')is to listen to the dawn and dusk singing of the breeding Hermit Thrushes. Joining the chorus on Saturday evening was the distinctively-beautiful song of a Swainson's Thrush. I hadn't heard one in that location before, although it seems to me that one was recorded in the Bluff Lake area in years past. Grinnell and Miller (1944) state that the species is not found in socal "above 4000 feet". Jim Pike Huntington Beach Subject: Garner Valley 6-21-09 From: "Eric" <eric AT trs-sandiego.com> Date: Sun, 21 Jun 2009 23:56:03 -0000 A small group from San Diego including Trent Stanley, Claude Edwards Ian ? and myself drove up to Garner Valley this morning to (hopefully) find Pinyon Jays. We also stopped by Lake Hemet for birds of opportunity. Besides numerous common species we found a small flock of about 5 Pinyon Jays in the pines along Fobes Ranch Road about .5 miles east from SR74 (?). At Lake Hemet we found a single eared grebe in breeding plumage and the bald eagle reported earlier. A few photos of the jays, grebe and the eagle (from far away) are posted at: http://tinyurl.com/ericsphotos Eric Kallen San Diego Subject: Lake Hemet June 21. 09 From: "Howard King" <redhillbrd AT aol.com> Date: Sun, 21 Jun 2009 22:33:51 -0000 I saw a couple of birds at Lake Hemet and Gardner Valley this morning. An adult BALD EAGLE was visible from the first parking lot at Lake Hemet after the fog lifted. At the wet spot south of the Lake Hemet Store on 74 is a colony of TRICOLORED BLACKBIRDS mixed with Grackles. About one mile past the Caltrans yard on Hiway 74 was a flock of PINYON JAYS, maybe 20 birds or so. They were moving south on both sides of the road.At the Caltrans yard is a wet spot inside the entrance. There were LAWRENCE'S GOLDFINCHES present here. Howard King Subject: South end Salton Sea - 20 Jun 2009 From: "Guy" <guymcc AT pacbell.net> Date: Sun, 21 Jun 2009 14:39:38 -0700 I spent the day (20 June 2009 from 5:30 AM to 5:30 PM) with Jay Keller birding select locations in the Imperial Valley from Fig Lagoon northward to Niland, and along the south shore of the Salton Sea between the Wister Unit and the north end of Poe Road. Species and/or numbers of interest included - Greater White-fronted Goose (1 - one continuing at Sunbeam Lake near Seeley with resident "domestic geese"), Ross's Goose (1 - one "cripple" at Unit 1 of the Salton Sea National Wildlife Refuge), Cackling Goose (1 - one leucopareia continuing at Sunbeam Lake near Seeley with resident "domestic geese"), Brant (1 - one at Unit 1 of the Salton Sea National Wildlife Refuge was the same bird seen here 5 June), Blue-winged Teal (3 - one male at Morton Bay and two males together near the west end of Young Road), Reddish Egret (1 - one immature near the southwest corner of the Wister Unit), Wood Stork (6 - the first that I have encountered this summer), Red-tailed Hawk (1 - one adult at Poe Road), Greater Yellowlegs (6 - probably fall migrants), Long-billed Curlew (350 - an obvious influx of these birds during the past week), Wilson's Phalarope (250 - most adult females), Bonaparte's Gull (25), Laughing Gull (1 - one adult at Obsidian Butte), Heermann's Gull (2 - one adult at Sheldon Reservoir and one adult sitting on a nest at Rock Hill), Yellow-footed Gull (50), California Gull (600 - including adults with "chicks" near the south end of Davis Road, Rock Hill and Obsidian Butte), Say's Phoebe (1 - one near the intersection of Pound and Davis Roads), Cliff Swallow (2500 - an obvious heavy movement of these birds along the shore of the sea), Phainopepla (1 - one female in Calipatria), Bronzed Cowbird (1 - an adult male at Sheldon Reservoir), Brown-headed Cowbird (35) and Lesser Goldfinch (5 - five together at the Wister Unit HQ undoubtedly included the two seen here on 5 June). Guy McCaskie 954 Grove Avenue Imperial Beach, CA 91932 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Subject: scott's orioles From: "eelmendorf3" <elmendorf3 AT verizon.net> Date: Sun, 21 Jun 2009 05:07:50 -0000 Great looks at Scott's orioles 3pm today at the hummingbird feeders in the Indian Canyon south of Palm Springs-at the gift shop, south end of the road. Ed Elmendorf Subject: NESS Saturday From: "dgingt22" <davegoodward AT earthlink.net> Date: Sun, 21 Jun 2009 02:50:15 -0000 Chet McGaugh and I birded around the northeast part of the Salton Sea today in the early summer lull of activity. Salt Creek to Hayes. As expected, very few shorebirds: 3 Greater Yellowlegs, 1 Whimbrel, one Willet, one Long-billed Dowitcher. Four ratty-looking Common Loons and 5 Red-breasted mergansers. No interesting gulls. We checked the Johnson Street ditch, which still has cattails at the far end, thanks to Coachella Valley Water District biologist Monica Swartz: 2 Least bitterns, a handful of Yellow-headed blackbirds, breeding moorhens and thousands of bright pink snail egg masses. Anybody know anything about those snails, size of ping pong balls? Palm Island Drive had the usual suspects: Brown-crested flycatcher, Bronzed cowbird, Lark sparrows, lots of orioles. Late lingerers were a Wilson's warbler and a Black-headed grosbeak. good birding, Dave Subject: Re: Wood Stork question From: Bob Miller <bob.miller AT mindspring.com> Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 18:12:18 -0400 (EDT) Hi all, Had some interesting input from several people on the question of night migration in Wood Stork and do appreciate the comments! What I saw were two birds at a fairly high altitude with the city lights shining up on them. I have seen egrets in flight over Brawley at night numerous times as well as Barn Owl. Size deceiving is a given and I did not have optics on me at the time either. The shape of what flew over was very strange at first and did not fit the expected birds but then it hit me that the black parts of the wings would not be, or would only slightly be, visible giving it an even weirder shape. The main reason Wood Stork entered my mind is that I just got back from a week in Florida and had spent considerable time watching high flying and soaring Wood Storks in the daytime. Take away the black feathers and you have the white birds that flew over me the other night!! What about American White Pelican?! Considered that too but the movement and wing beat did not give me that impression at all. Below are a few of the comments received. “generally speaking I would expect wood storks to fly longer distances during the day to take advantage of thermals but for a short flight there could be some night activity” “In the early 1980s we were conducting bird migration radar studies in the Imperial valley, we would observe Wood Storks migrating aloft between 12:00 - 4:00 am into and out of the sink, also we would see early morning flights from 6 am and later. With that said, at out lower Colorado River sites on occasions we would observed them migrating south along lower Colorado River at night. So I believe they are moving both nocturnal and diurnal.” “Sure they weren't Barn Owls???? :-D” “Not certain but it would not surprise me. Ibis fly at night, and Storks are as active feeding at night as during the day, though at least they can feel the prey they are seeking without light” (!__!) (0V0) HAPPY BIRDING {}~~{} BOB MILLER ='''='''== Southwest Birders Brawley, CA. 92227 Imperial County 760-455-1413 http://www.southwestbirders.com bob.miller AT mindspring.com Subject: Southeastern CA RBA: June 18, 2009 From: Tom Benson <tbenson AT csusb.edu> Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 10:04:16 -0700 RBA * California * Southeastern * June 18, 2009 * CASE0906.18 This is the Southeastern CA weekly RBA summary. We cover Imperial, Riverside, and San Bernardino Counties. California Bird Records Committee review species are denoted by asterisks. Names in the report are generally those of the reporting party and not necessarily the person claiming the first sighting. If you are receiving this report only through Birdwest, you can get MORE FREQUENT AND COMPREHENSIVE UPDATES by subscribing to inlandcountybirds (see below). The bird alert phone line housed at the San Bernardino County Museum is no longer in service. If you have a rare bird to report and must use a phone line, please call 909-648-0899. Birds mentioned: Greater White-fronted Goose Ross's Goose Brant Cackling Goose Blue-winged Teal Common Loon Least Bittern Wood Stork White-tailed Kite Bald Eagle Northern Harrier Red-tailed Hawk Peregrine Falcon Heermann's Gull Mew Gull Elegant Tern Whip-poor-will Vermilion Flycatcher Ash-throated Flycatcher Purple Martin Townsend's Solitaire Phainopepla Northern Parula American Redstart Hepatic Tanager Indigo Bunting Bronzed Cowbird - Transcript SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY A pair of adult VERMILION FLYCATCHERS with two fledglings as well as another adult male VERMILION FLYCATCHER and a LEAST BITTERN continued at Prado Regional Park on Jun 12 (Howard King). A WHIP-POOR-WILL was heard in Green Canyon in the San Bernardino Mountains Jun 13-14 (Roy Poucher). A NORTHERN PARULA was seen in Green Canyon and a COMMON LOON and a BALD EAGLE were seen at Big Bear Lake on Jun 14 (Brad Singer). Two male INDIGO BUNTINGS and a pair of HEPATIC TANAGERS were seen upstream of the FR 2N02 crossing of Arrastre Creek on Jun 14 (Sandy Koonce). In the eastern Mojave desert on Jun 13-14 a PEREGRINE FALCON was seen over Horsethief and Beck Springs, a female AMERICAN REDSTART and a male INDIGO BUNTING were at Sheep Creek Springs, a TOWNSEND'S SOLITAIRE was at Horsethief Springs, and additional male INDIGO BUNTINGS were at the Baker sewage ponds and Pachalka Spring (Jim Pike). An adult female PURPLE MARTIN was seen over Lost Lake on Jun 16 (Howard King). RIVERSIDE COUNTY A BRONZED COWBIRD was discovered in a cowbird trap at Lake Elsinore on Jun 14 (Henry Armijo). IMPERIAL COUNTY The following birds were reported from the Imperial Valley and south end of the Salton Sea on Jun 11: GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE and CACKLING GOOSE at Sunbeam Lake, a ROSS'S GOOSE, a BRANT and a BLUE-WINGED TEAL at Unit 1 SSNWR, a juvenile WHITE-TAILED KITE near the intersection of Pound and Davis, a NORTHERN HARRIER at Wister Unit, a RED-TAILED HAWK near Seeley, a HEERMANN'S GULL at Rock Hill, a MEW GULL at Red Hill, 3 ELEGANT TERNS near Fig Lagoon, 2 ASH-THROATED FLYCATCHERS near the intersection of Carter and Fites, 8 PHAINOPEPLAS in Niland, and a BRONZED COWBIRD at Sunbeam Lake (Guy McCaskie). 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Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/inlandcountybirds/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/inlandcountybirds/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:inlandcountybirds-digest AT yahoogroups.com mailto:inlandcountybirds-fullfeatured AT yahoogroups.com <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: inlandcountybirds-unsubscribe AT yahoogroups.com <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ Subject: Wood Stork question From: Bob Miller <bob.miller AT mindspring.com> Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 20:43:03 -0400 (EDT) Hi all, Does anyone know if Wood Stork migrate at night? Last night about 10:30pm I watched two birds fly over my home in Brawley headed north toward the Salton Sea and would swear they were Wood Stork. What a yard bird that would be for downtown Brawley! (!__!) (0V0) HAPPY BIRDING {}~~{} BOB MILLER ='''='''== Southwest Birders Brawley, CA. 92227 Imperial County 760-455-1413 http://www.southwestbirders.com bob.miller AT mindspring.com Subject: Lesser Nighthawks and Wood Storks From: "rdjagt" <rdjagt AT aol.com> Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 21:57:54 -0000 Spotted 4 lesser Nighthawks by Salton Sea, Wister Unit visitor area, Davis Road. Twenty Wood Storks were near the shore by Davis Road and Schrimpf Road. Subject: Purple Martin From: "Howard King" <redhillbrd AT aol.com> Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 22:43:47 -0000 There was an adult female PURPLE MARTIN this morning at Lost Lake in the Cajon Pass. Howard King Subject: Common Nighthawk From: "Sandra Remley" <raccoonhome AT aol.com> Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 02:59:53 -0000 FOS for me as I heard and saw them this morning at 8:30. Unusual to see them during the day and they circled and explored the field behind my home for about 15 minutes. There were two individuals. They used to be two digit in numbers a couple of years ago and have become less in numbers each year. They are beautiful to watch. See you out there, Sandy Remley Big Bear Lake, CA Subject: Wood Storks @ the Salton Sea From: "wolfberry01" <wolfberry01 AT yahoo.com> Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 22:31:39 -0000 Today finally in were a group of 25+ Wood Storks. First flushed from a closed area of the Salton Sea NWR into Morton bay, near the corner of Garst & Red Hill rds. Subject: Lake Elsinore Bronzed Cowbird From: "vireos44" <jpike44 AT earthlink.net> Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 22:31:50 -0000 Hi, Henry Armijo discovered a male Bronzed Cowbird while monitoring a cowbird trap on the northwest end of Lake Elsinore yesterday. He released the bird on-site. Jim Pike Huntington Beach Subject: East Mojave June 13-14 From: "vireos44" <jpike44 AT earthlink.net> Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 16:05:56 -0000 Hi, Back from another wonderful weekend in the eastern Mojave Desert. The most curious bird sighting of the trip was of an adult Peregrine Falcon above Horse Thief Springs on the 13th and presumably the same bird over Beck Spring on the 14th. Is a bird (pair?) summering in the Kingstons? The most annoying sighting of the trip was of three steers at Horse Thief. They jumped over two sets of fences when I chased them out. I'll inform the BLM of the need to add another strand of wire to their fences. In the meanwhile, I'll be pricing barbed wire before I return to Horse Thief in the fall. Male Indigo Buntings were at the Baker pond/s, Shoshone, Pachalka Spring and Sheep Creek Spring. The two that were seen best were at the springs, and both were one-year-old birds with molt limits and white belly patches. The only migrant warbler of the trip was a female American Redstart at Sheep Creek on the 13th. A Townsend's Solitaire (odd date) was at Horse Thief on the 13th and a Common Poorwill was there on the 14th. A Lesser Nighthawk was at the Baker pond on the 14th. Jim Pike Huntington Beach Subject: San Bernardino Mountains II From: "Brad Singer" <bcsinger AT gmail.com> Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 04:07:03 -0000 The Mojave Bird Club toured the eastern San Bernardino Mountains on this cold, crisp June Sunday (felt like February). The day turned out fairly prolific with over 90 species being found by this excellent group of birders. Of note: Hepatic Tanager (Arrastre Creek) Dusky Flycatchers (nesting and feeding young at Green Canyon) Northern Parula (Green Canyon) Golden-crowned Kinglet (Green Canyon) Bald Eagle (flyover on Big Bear Lake) Common Loon (Big Bear Lake) Brad Singer Lake Arrowhead Subject: RE: What is this Bird? From: Robert McKernan <rmcksula AT msn.com> Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2009 17:44:13 -0700 There are approximately 8 subspecies asigned to Ploceus cucullatus, general distribution: Uganda, w. Kenya and sw. Sudan, Ethiopia, Tanzania and Mozambique. All the the best, Bob McKernan SBCM To: timura2 AT yahoo.com CC: inlandcountybirds AT yahoogroups.com From: jmorlan AT gmail.com Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2009 21:34:32 -0700 Subject: Re: [inlandcountybirds] What is this Bird? On Sun, 14 Jun 2009 01:27:40 -0000, "timura2" wrote: > Does any one know what it is and where it is native to. How about Village Weaver (Ploceus cucullatus)? -- Joseph Morlan, Pacifica, CA jmorlan (at) ccsf.edu SF Birding Classes start Sept. 15 http://fog.ccsf.edu/~jmorlan/ California Bird Records Committee http://www.californiabirds.org/ Western Field Ornithologists http://www.westernfieldornithologists.org/ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Subject: San Bernardino Mountains From: "Koonce, Sandy" <sandy_koonce AT redlands.edu> Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2009 16:33:40 -0700 I birded Arrastre Creek this morning and Bluff Lake in the early afternoon. At Arrastre Creek, the highlight was undoubtedly two singing male INDIGO BUNTINGS, one just upstream from the 2N02 crossing, and the other in the substantial pine grove about 1.25-1.5 miles upstream. At this location there were also a pair of HEPATIC TANAGERS, with the female carrying nesting material (I couldn't see where she went with it). They have nested in this location before in recent years. Also in this area were two singing PLUMBEOUS VIREOS. Later on, after checking out Rose Mine and finding it very quiet, I returned to Arrastre Creek and met up with the Mojave Bird Club field trip; two of their number reported a third INDIGO BUNTING, although it wasn't clear to me where they had seen it. After they went on up to see the tanagers, there was a large covey of MOUNTAIN QUAIL. At Bluff Lake, in addition to three drumming WILLIAMSON'S SAPSUCKERS, the most interesting bird was a WILLOW FLYCATCHER. I ran into Roy Poucher there; he said that he camped at Green Canyon Saturday night, and the WHIP-POOR-WILL was calling all night long. He also reported a pair of COOPER'S HAWKS from the Bluff Lake area. Sandy Sandy Koonce Department of Mathematics University of Redlands, Redlands, CA 92373 sandy_koonce AT redlands.edu [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Subject: Re: What is this Bird? From: Joseph Morlan <jmorlan AT gmail.com> Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2009 21:34:32 -0700 On Sun, 14 Jun 2009 01:27:40 -0000, "timura2" wrote: > Does any one know what it is and where it is native to. How about Village Weaver (Ploceus cucullatus)? -- Joseph Morlan, Pacifica, CA jmorlan (at) ccsf.edu SF Birding Classes start Sept. 15 http://fog.ccsf.edu/~jmorlan/ California Bird Records Committee http://www.californiabirds.org/ Western Field Ornithologists http://www.westernfieldornithologists.org/ Subject: Riverside County reports?: North American Birds - Spring 2009 From: "bewickwren" <bewickwren AT earthlink.net> Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2009 18:29:45 -0700 Inlandcountybirders, I'll soon be finishing my Riverside County compilation of spring reports for "North American Birds". If you have not yet made your spring report, now is the time. For reporting guidelines, see Guy's message below. Thanks, John F. Green Riverside County coordinator for "North American Birds" Riverside, CA -----Original Message----- From: inlandcountybirds AT yahoogroups.com [mailto:inlandcountybirds AT yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Guy Sent: Sunday, May 31, 2009 2:12 PM Subject: [inlandcountybirds] North American Birds - Spring 2009 County Coordinators/Contributors: The Spring Season (1 March through 31 May 2009) is ended, and we solicit reports for inclusion in the Southern California Region of NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. Reports should be arranged with species in the taxonomic order followed by the American Ornithologists Union (Check-List of North American Birds 1998) and the American Birding Association (6th edition of the ABA Checklist, 2002). Reports of species included on the California Bird Records Committee (CBRC) review list (Field List of California Birds 2002, obtainable through Western Field Ornithologists at 1359 Solano Drive, Pacifica, CA 94044 http://www.californ iabirds.org iabirds.org/> ) must be accompanied by documentation (written description, photographs, etc.). Similar documentation should also accompany reports of species unusual for the location or season. Full names, with all initials, should be used in the reports (this reduces the potential for different observers having the same initials, and makes it simpler to acknowledge contributors). Reports should be sent to the appropriate County Coordinators (listed below) or directly to Guy McCaskie. Reports for this season must be received prior to 20 June 2008. NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS can not exist without your input. David Compton (Santa Barbara County) 736 Cieneguitas, # F Santa Barbara, CA 93110 davcompton AT verizon. net Tom M. Edell (San Luis Obispo County) 46 8th Street Cayucos, CA 93430 tedell AT aol.com Kimball L. Garrett (Los Angeles County) Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County 900 Exposition Boulevard Los Angeles, CA 90007 kgarrett AT nhm. org John F. Green (Riverside County) 3120 Mount Vernon Ave. Riverside, CA 92507-3140 bewickwren AT earthlin k.net Tom and Jo Heindel (Inyo County) PO Box 400 Big Pine, CA 93513 tjheindel AT aol. com Oscar Johnson (Ventura County) P.O. Box 21903 Santa Barbara, CA 93121 henicorhina AT yahoo.com Alexander E. Koonce (San Bernardino County) 1357 Paige Lane Redlands, CA 92373-6878 sandy_koonce AT redlands.edu Guy McCaskie (Imperial County) 954 Grove Avenue Imperial Beach, CA 91932 guymcc AT pacbell. net Douglas R. Willick (Orange County) 236 S Batavia St #E Orange CA 92868 Doug.Willick AT tcb.aecom.com John C. Wilson (Kern County) 1425 Alta Vista Drive Bakersfield, CA 93305 jcwilson AT lightspeed .net We thank you in advance for your time and effort. Guy McCaskie and Kimball L. Garrett No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.5.339 / Virus Database: 270.12.46/2145 - Release Date: 05/31/09 05:53:00 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Subject: What is this Bird? From: "timura2" <timura2 AT yahoo.com> Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2009 01:27:40 -0000 Someone brought this photo in to me at Wild birds unlimited in Riverside. I told them this was a pet that flew away and was now at her bird feeder. Does any one know what it is and where it is native to. I posted a picture in the photo album Subject: Re:Prado Regional Park From: "Howard King" <redhillbrd AT aol.com> Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2009 21:20:29 -0000 Lydia and all. To find the Vermilions park in lot 7. Walk towards the campground. There are some 4-6 sad looking eucalytus treea next to the road. This is where they are. I have seen them forage out to the 2 eucs in the bare field towards the prison but they are usually next to the road. The 2 Ross's Geese have been there 2 and 3 years. I believe the large terns you saw were probably Caspians as there have been 1-4 on the lake for a week or two with the Forster's. I wish they were Royal..Cheers..Howard King Subject: Re: Prado Regional Park From: "Howard King" <redhillbrd AT aol.com> Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2009 21:13:17 -0000 --- In inlandcountybirds AT yahoogroups.com, "Lidia Seebeck" wrote: > > I also went to Prado in the afternoon. > > > > I was unable to find either the Bittern or the Vermillions. The bittern I > attribute to bad luck and increasingly bad lighting (this gloom is getting > ridiculous!) but the Vermillions I would appreciate guidance on. I looked > in and around every tree between the lot and the lake, I think and a good > distance to either side. I found tons of kingbirds and finches (the tree > directly between that lot and the bathrooms is especially thick with > calling kingbirds) but no VEFL. Can anyone please describe which tree? It's > possible I missed a few. > > > > Some things *we* saw. > > > > Most excitingly, we have TWO definite ROSS'S GOOSE near the boat dock. They > were hanging with three domestic x hybrid whatever geese and begging for > bread (which we didn't have) so they came within three feet or so. I DO > have pics if requested (really nice pics too!) I'm aware that they are very > rare in summer and I would not say this unless I was certain with > photodocumentation. > > > > Numerous Clark's, Western, and PB Grebe were present. Yesterday we paused > on the roadway over the pond to see a pair of Western Grebes in active > mating mode, complete with the dancing and the bit with the nesting > material. That was really neat to watch. > > > > Something odd. There was a Moorhen nest just to the south of the advisory > sign about RC boats. At one point a pair of Clark's Grebe swam up and > appeared to be feeding the young in that nest? Numerous Common Moorhen were > present overall. > > > > One last thing. There were a LOT of terns in the air over the pond. Some > are definite Foster's (Photo upon request, Mike took some really nice > ones), there were at least two other types. One appears to be Royal Tern (a > single pic upon request) and there was another with a more orange bill than > the possible Royal. Should I post these pics? A third one is a terrible > pic but appears to show a tern with a yellow (?!?) bill. It's so blurry I > can't make out much detail. It does have a deeply forked tail. Could this > simply be an early HY Foster's? > > > > Oh yeah. There were a ton of swallows at the north end. We didn't get there > until quite late in the afternoon to allow an RC boater to clear out. The > lighting was just terrible, but I thought I saw some bluish backs on some. > Tree swallow? > > > > Lidia > > > > _____ > > From: inlandcountybirds AT yahoogroups.com > [mailto:inlandcountybirds AT yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Howard King > Sent: Friday, June 12, 2009 12:30 PM > To: inlandcountybirds AT yahoogroups.com > Subject: [inlandcountybirds] Prado Regional Park > > > > > > > > > Today at Prado the nesting pair of VERMILION FLYCATCHERS and thier two > fledglings were present near parking lot 7. A second male VERMILION was > near the campground. A LEAST BITTERN was in the northern end of the lake. > Cheers..Howard King > > > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > Subject: Blythe birds, Here sums commer ! And birds From: "higson_roger" <art.higson AT verizon.net> Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2009 20:04:46 -0000 Well I have summer time off, its called saving up and not believing anyone in authority. Oh no Roger summer school is on. Cancelled 2 weeeks ago. So I ate beans for ten months, I have beans for the next two. Sadly, a number of new teachers, are hurting, as they believed what the administration fed them, they have nothing for the next two months. Like the worst boss I ever had in my life, who looking back 30 years, told me "Ah Roger but do you have it in writing" . "NO" "Then don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out". After several years I tried the "I am important you need me". He told me to go outside the office fill a glass with water from the cooler, and bring it back in. I did. Set it down. Now stick your finger in the water. I did. Now if you pull your finger out and the hole stays there, I need you.. In todays economy if you are drifting along believing "I am safe" You are not. Birds today are at a minimal, and less than 20 sp. In between finishing up the year at school. Try tomorrow, more free time Most of my summer postings will be on my Blog site. But if something special shows up I will gladly share here. Enjoy Roger Subject: RE: Prado Regional Park From: "Lidia Seebeck" <lidia AT seebeck.us> Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2009 09:55:13 -0700 I also went to Prado in the afternoon. I was unable to find either the Bittern or the Vermillions. The bittern I attribute to bad luck and increasingly bad lighting (this gloom is getting ridiculous!) but the Vermillions I would appreciate guidance on. I looked in and around every tree between the lot and the lake, I think and a good distance to either side. I found tons of kingbirds and finches (the tree directly between that lot and the bathrooms is especially thick with calling kingbirds) but no VEFL. Can anyone please describe which tree? It's possible I missed a few. Some things *we* saw. Most excitingly, we have TWO definite ROSS'S GOOSE near the boat dock. They were hanging with three domestic x hybrid whatever geese and begging for bread (which we didn't have) so they came within three feet or so. I DO have pics if requested (really nice pics too!) I'm aware that they are very rare in summer and I would not say this unless I was certain with photodocumentation. Numerous Clark's, Western, and PB Grebe were present. Yesterday we paused on the roadway over the pond to see a pair of Western Grebes in active mating mode, complete with the dancing and the bit with the nesting material. That was really neat to watch. Something odd. There was a Moorhen nest just to the south of the advisory sign about RC boats. At one point a pair of Clark's Grebe swam up and appeared to be feeding the young in that nest? Numerous Common Moorhen were present overall. One last thing. There were a LOT of terns in the air over the pond. Some are definite Foster's (Photo upon request, Mike took some really nice ones), there were at least two other types. One appears to be Royal Tern (a single pic upon request) and there was another with a more orange bill than the possible Royal. Should I post these pics? A third one is a terrible pic but appears to show a tern with a yellow (?!?) bill. It's so blurry I can't make out much detail. It does have a deeply forked tail. Could this simply be an early HY Foster's? Oh yeah. There were a ton of swallows at the north end. We didn't get there until quite late in the afternoon to allow an RC boater to clear out. The lighting was just terrible, but I thought I saw some bluish backs on some. Tree swallow? Lidia _____ From: inlandcountybirds AT yahoogroups.com [mailto:inlandcountybirds AT yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Howard King Sent: Friday, June 12, 2009 12:30 PM To: inlandcountybirds AT yahoogroups.com Subject: [inlandcountybirds] Prado Regional Park Today at Prado the nesting pair of VERMILION FLYCATCHERS and thier two fledglings were present near parking lot 7. A second male VERMILION was near the campground. A LEAST BITTERN was in the northern end of the lake. Cheers..Howard King [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Subject: Lake Skinner 12 June From: "Dave Furseth" <davefurseth AT verizon.net> Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 23:33:39 -0000 All, Lake Skinner has returned to normal after the Balloon and Wine Festival last weekend. List courtesy of eBird. Cheers, Dave Furseth Murrieta, CA American Coot,,,,,23,,, American Crow,,,,,46,,, American Goldfinch,,,,,7,,, Barn Swallow,,,,,40,,, Bewick's Wren,,,,,7,,, Black Phoebe,,,,,4,,, Black-headed Grosbeak,,,,,2,,, Bushtit,,,,,4,,, California Quail,,,,,11,,, California Towhee,,,,,16,,, Caspian Tern,,,,,1,,, Cliff Swallow,,,,,32,,, Common Yellowthroat,,,,,1,,, Cooper's Hawk,,,,,2,,, European Starling,,,,,13,,, Forster's Tern,,,,,2,,, Gadwall,,,,,1,,, Great-tailed Grackle,,,,,16,,, Green Heron,,,,,1,,, House Finch,,,,,21,,, House Wren,,,,,5,,, Killdeer,,,,,3,,, Lawrence's Goldfinch,,,,,2,,, Lesser Goldfinch,,,,,27,,, Mallard,,,,,53,,, Mourning Dove,,,,,7,,, Nuttall's Woodpecker,,,,,5,,, Pied-billed Grebe,,,,,3,,, Red-shouldered Hawk,,,,,1,,, Red-tailed Hawk,,,,,1,,, Red-winged Blackbird,,,,,163,,, Song Sparrow,,,,,11,,, Spotted Towhee,,,,,4,,, Turkey Vulture,,,,,1,,, Western Bluebird,,,,,1,,, Western Grebe,,,,,16,,, Western Kingbird,,,,,4,,, Western Scrub-Jay,,,,,1,,, Wrentit,,,,,4,,, Yellow Warbler,,,,,5,,, Bullock's Oriole,,,,,11,,, California Thrasher,,,,,6,,, Lazuli Bunting,,,,,1,,, Phainopepla,,,,,2,,, White-tailed Kite,,,,,1,,, Subject: Salton Sea - 11 Jun 2009 From: "Guy" <guymcc AT pacbell.net> Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 15:22:16 -0700 I spent Thursday, 11 June 20089, birding select locations in the Imperial Valley from Fig Lagoon northward to Niland, and along the south shore of the Salton Sea between the Wister Unit and the north end of Poe Road. Willow Flycatchers were clearly moving through the area in good numbers. Species seen/heard - Greater White-fronted Goose (1 - one continuing at Sunbeam Lake near Seeley with resident "domestic geese"), Ross's Goose (1 - one "cripple" at Unit 1 of the Salton Sea National Wildlife Refuge), Cackling Goose (1 - one leucopareia continuing at Sunbeam Lake near Seeley with resident "domestic geese"), Brant (1 - one at Unit 1 of the Salton Sea National Wildlife Refuge was the same bird seen here 5 June), Gadwall (30), American Wigeon (4), Mallard (50), Blue-winged Teal (1 - one male at Unit 1 of the Salton Sea National Wildlife Refuge), Cinnamon Teal (30), Northern Shoveler (15), Northern Pintail (3), Green-winged Teal (1), Redhead (200), Lesser Scaup (1), Ruddy Duck (20), Gambell's Quail (20), Pied-billed Grebe (5), Eared Grebe (25), Western Grebe (5), Clark's Grebe (4), Aechmophorus Sp (5), American White Pelican (100), Brown Pelican (350), Double-crested Cormorant (750), Least Bittern (3), Great Blue Heron (40), Great Egret (50), Snowy Egret (75), Cattle Egret (3000 - most at nests at Rammer Lake), Green Heron (6), Black-crowned Night-Heron (35), White-faced Ibis (200), Turkey Vulture (6), Osprey (1 - one at Fig Lagoon), White-tailed Kite (1 - of recently fledged juvenile near the intersection of Pound and Davis Roads was constantly calling), Northern Harrier (1 - one adult male near the southwest corner of the Wister Unit), Red-tailed Hawk (1 - one west of Seeley), American Kestrel (15), Clapper Rail (1), Virginia Rail (2 - one adult with a small black "chick" at the north end of Poe Road), Common Moorhen (2), American Coot (200), Black-bellied Plover (5 - all in basic-plumage), Snowy Plover (30), Killdeer (15), Black-necked Stilt (1000), American Avocet (200), Greater Yellowlegs (1 - one at Red Hill), Willet (20), Long-billed Curlew (15), Marbled Godwit (50), Western Sandpiper (1 - one in partial alternate-plumage at the north end of Poe Road), Long-billed Dowitcher (6 - three near the southwest corner of the Wister Unit, two at the intersection of Lack and Lindsey Roads, and one at Unit 1 of the Salton Sea National Wildlife Refuge), Wilson's Phalarope (6 - six adult females together at Unit 1 of the Salton Sea National Wildlife Refuge were the first of the fall migrants), Bonaparte's Gull (25), Heermann's Gull (1 - one adult sitting on a nest at Rock Hill), Mew Gull (1 - one bleached and worn first-summer bird near Red Hill was the same bird seen here 5 June), Ring-billed Gull (30), Yellow-footed Gull (50), California Gull (350), Gull-billed Tern (150), Caspian Tern (750), Black Tern (2), Forster's Tern (75), Elegant Tern (3 - three adults at Fig Lagoon first thing in the morning), Black Skimmer (75), Rock Pigeon (250), Eurasian Collared-Dove (250), White-winged Dove (30), Mourning Dove (75), Inca Dove (15), Common Ground-Dove (30), Greater Roadrunner (5), Barn Owl (1), Burrowing Owl (15), Lesser Nighthawk (10), Black-chinned Hummingbird (15), Anna's Hummingbird (5), Costa's Hummingbird (2), Gila Woodpecker (5), Ladder-backed Woodpecker (3), Western Wood-Pewee (7), Willow Flycatcher (28), Western Flycatcher (1 - one at Cattle Call Park in Brawley), Black Phoebe (20), Say's Phoebe (1 - one at the Wister Unit HQ), Ash-throated Flycatcher (2 - two near the intersection of Carter and Fites Roads were at a location where nesting is suspected), Western Kingbird (30), Loggerhead Shrike (5), Common Raven (2), Horned Lark (2), Northern Rough-winged Swallow (50), Cliff Swallow (300), Barn Swallow (2), Verdin (10), Cactus Wren (5 - a pair with three recently fledged young at Cattle Call Park in Brawley), Marsh Wren (10), Black-tailed Gnatcatcher (2), Northern Mockingbird (15), European Starling (100), Phainopepla (8 - a "flock" of eight at the west end of 4th Street in Niland), Common Yellowthroat (5), Abert's Towhee (20), Song Sparrow (10), Blue Grosbeak (2), Red-winged Blackbird (500), Western Meadowlark (30), Yellow-headed Blackbird (2), Brewer's Blackbird (30), Great-tailed Grackle (150), Bronzed Cowbird (1 - an adult male at Sunbeam Lake near Seeley), Brown-headed Cowbird (25), Hooded Oriole (1), Bullock's Oriole (3), House Finch (30) and House Sparrow (75) Guy McCaskie 954 Grove Avenue Imperial Beach, CA 91932 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Subject: Prado Regional Park From: "Howard King" <redhillbrd AT aol.com> Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 19:30:28 -0000 Today at Prado the nesting pair of VERMILION FLYCATCHERS and thier two fledglings were present near parking lot 7. A second male VERMILION was near the campground. A LEAST BITTERN was in the northern end of the lake. Cheers..Howard King Subject: Southeastern CA RBA: June 11, 2009 From: Tom Benson <tbenson AT csusb.edu> Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 07:41:43 -0700 RBA * California * Southeastern * June 11, 2009 * CASE0906.11 This is the Southeastern CA weekly RBA summary. We cover Imperial, Riverside, and San Bernardino Counties. California Bird Records Committee review species are denoted by asterisks. Names in the report are generally those of the reporting party and not necessarily the person claiming the first sighting. If you are receiving this report only through Birdwest, you can get MORE FREQUENT AND COMPREHENSIVE UPDATES by subscribing to inlandcountybirds (see below). The bird alert phone line housed at the San Bernardino County Museum is no longer in service. If you have a rare bird to report and must use a phone line, please call 909-648-0899. Birds mentioned: Greater White-fronted Goose Ross's Goose Cackling Goose Brant Heermann's Gull Mew Gull Herring Gull Least Tern Elegant Tern Least Tern Vermilion Flycatcher Phainopepla Blackpoll Warbler Northern Cardinal Indigo Bunting Bronzed Cowbird - Transcript SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY A pair of VERMILION FLYCATCHERS were tending 2 juveniles at Prado Regional Park on Jun 7, another pair was tending 3 juveniles at Glen Helen Regional Park on Jun 8, and as many as three pairs were seen at Cal State San Bernardino on Jun 7 (Jim Pike, Dave Goodward, Tom Benson). An INDIGO BUNTING was seen in Deep Creek near Lake Arrowhead on Jun 10 (Brad Singer). RIVERSIDE COUNTY A NORTHERN CARDINAL was seen at Todd Park in Blythe Jun 6-7 (Roger Higson). A BLACKPOLL WARBLER was found in the Prado Basin on Jun 9 (Jim Pike). IMPERIAL COUNTY The following birds were seen in the Imperial Valley and south end of the Salton Sea on Jun 5: a GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE and a CACKLING GOOSE at Sunbeam Lake, a ROSS'S GOOSE and a BRANT at Unit 1 Salton Sea NWR, 4 HEERMANN'S GULLS at Sheldon Reservoir (1), Rock Hill (2), and Obsidian Butte (1), a MEW GULL near Red Hill, a HERRING GULL near the west end of Young Road, 6 LEAST TERNS at Wister Unit, 3 ELEGANT TERNS at Fig Lagoon (2) and Unit 1 Salton Sea NWR (1), a female PHAINOPEPLA in Niland, and a pair of BRONZED COWBIRDS in Niland (Guy McCaskie). ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 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. 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Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/inlandcountybirds/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/inlandcountybirds/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:inlandcountybirds-digest AT yahoogroups.com mailto:inlandcountybirds-fullfeatured AT yahoogroups.com <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: inlandcountybirds-unsubscribe AT yahoogroups.com <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ Subject: San Bernardino Mountains From: "Brad Singer" <bcsinger AT gmail.com> Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 04:16:17 -0000 Crazy weather! So cold up here in the mountains the ducks may return. I went to find a Dipper late this afternoon along Deep Creek and located three of them, south of the bridge crossing of Hook Creek Road over Deep Creek (just east of Lake Arrowhead). More surprising was an Indigo Bunting about 50 feet east of the bridge. It's the first time I have found an Indigo Bunting west of Big Bear in the SB Mtns. Brad Singer Lake Arrowhead Bunting photo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/bcsinger/3615203027/ A. Dipper photo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/bcsinger/3615203211/ Subject: blythe birds Cardinal.End of school From: "higson_roger" <art.higson AT verizon.net> Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 23:44:11 -0000 greetings. Looked briefly for the Cardinal , way to windy and dusty A simple observation. Here come the rabid you should encourage students not make them feel bad , comments. Lets see if you are brighter than a ninth grader. If you know you are skating on thin ice, with your grade, and behaviour and you know you are going to be very lucky if you passed, and had to do really well on the final to get through, or you had just wasted a year of your life being a jerk, and would be taking me again. Would you do this. " Mr Higson whats my grade?" And my response is. "You barely passed , you have a D- and I am totally surprised you got that.I personally would be happy with that and I suggest you study harder next year and now you are in the High School grow up" Now me I would go backwards slowly out of the door bowing, close the door turn to my friends and go "Holy little bitty rat stickers I am out of the jerks class ".I had 2 ask me to go back through their scores,"I must have a B" One said "You screwed up" We did I thanked them they both failed, I can accept being corrected. My favourite. Mr Higson , please change it to a B if I don't get one my dad won't give me a truck for my birthday, and they will take away my cellphone ". We went through his grade. He failed I screwed up again. Are the young of today that stupid ? OOPs should have been on my blog, but harmless Roger Subject: RIV CO Blackpoll Warbler From: "vireos44" <jpike44 AT earthlink.net> Date: Tue, 09 Jun 2009 21:40:46 -0000 Hi, While listening to the singing of the only Willow Flycatcher known to be summering within the Prado Basin, I was excited to also repeatedly hear the high, thin 'tsit-tsit-tsit-tsit' song of an eastern warbler in the same general area. It took about two hours of searching before I eventually got a look at the Blackpoll Warbler. This was the first Blackpoll I've seen in the Basin, and the first spring bird I've seen in the state. Jim Pike Huntington Beach Subject: blythe birds Cardinal From: "higson_roger" <art.higson AT verizon.net> Date: Tue, 09 Jun 2009 12:03:18 -0000 Well the Cardinal continues, in Todd Park, in Central Blythe. I saw it as a fly by last night and calling. If you are passing through, and the mood takes you start in the NE corner, big intersection. Park at Library or Community centre and walk SW through the park. You guys see lots of trees, so I won't add the "Blythe rider" Step around the wooden sticky up things, they are trees.. If you tick on call. might be worth a try. View. Plan time these are huge Mulberries and lots of em. It dawned on me yesterday that many a west coaster has never tried a Blythe Summer. S for my and your Idle amusement I will walk you through one on my Blog blythebirdsandsilliness.blogspot.com/ I will still report birds , and some stuff here. But it be more colorful elsewhere ! Regards Roger and terriers Subject: Glen Helen vermillions From: "dgingt22" <davegoodward AT earthlink.net> Date: Tue, 09 Jun 2009 00:45:15 -0000 The 3 juvenile Vermillion flycatchers are now out of the nest, mom and dad working hard to keep them full. Barn swallow is sitting on her nest in the restroom building between the two lakes. Last trickle of migrants today, Western tanager, western wood peewee, willow flycatcher. Dave Subject: Ibis, flycatchers, etc From: "vireos44" <jpike44 AT earthlink.net> Date: Mon, 08 Jun 2009 00:18:44 -0000 Hi, I stopped by the Hellman Street crossing of Mill Creek in Chino today. Among the hundred White-faced Ibis (and one alternate-plumaged Greater Yellowlegs) were eleven fresh juveniles. Don't know where they were raised, but it wasn't in the Prado Basin. However, a large flock of ibis did begin nest-building in one of the Orange County Water District ponds (RIV CO) a couple weeks ago, so there will be breeding in the Basin for the first time in quite a few years. Currently, unprecedented numbers of Great-tailed Grackles are breeding in the ponds, as well as a few Yellow-headed Blackbirds. And speaking of breeding, two juvenile Vermilion Flycatchers were being attended to by parents today at Prado Regional Park that were already starting on their next nest in a eucalyptus tree nearby. Jim Pike Huntington Beach Subject: Blythe birds and the end of the year at school From: "higson_roger" <art.higson AT verizon.net> Date: Sat, 06 Jun 2009 22:55:37 -0000 greetings, sorry for the length between posts, and for the kind responses. I thank you all. I guess when you type, you let your thoughts go, and when the response is offensive. You loose interest. No need to acknowledge my ramblings, but this was a nice response from folks who enjoy my crap, there will be more. OK WE will start off with a test. I have spent a school year attempting to pound Earth Science into the skulls of 179 9th Graders. Here is your task. I gave them the questions, the chapters to look for the answers in and 2 days and open book to go over the questions and work with friends, and I would help. Graded the papers, and handed back, 27% scored over 60% ie Passed. Gave them the answers to study for this weeks finals, same questions as yesterday. no open book, no talky this time. A free guided tour of Blythe and lunch for the nearest guess to the number passing. Best bird of the day was actually five, a small flock of Franklins headed up the river. Summer coming, one week to go then time to catch up and talk to friends. regards rh and new adopted pound dog "Sam I am" It starts off lab and gradually becomes a greyhound with some dachsund. Only Dr Suess could draw it ! Subject: Blythe birds, Cardinal. From: "higson_roger" <art.higson AT verizon.net> Date: Sun, 07 Jun 2009 16:05:03 -0000 GreetingsI went to the Town Park,oposite the library named after some dead person whose name I never seem to remember. Probably some politician who did a lot of good for Blythe , but a Hell of a lot more for relatives and friends. Nudge nudge, wink wink say no more, to see how my Robins are doing. Could not find them, a lot of festive occasions being set up for, ,and foot traffic. Instead, extremely vocal Cardinal, Drake.You can hear it from one side of the park to the other. Saw it twice in the dense Mulberries.Not even thinking of wandering through Hispanic Garden Parties,covered in cameras on a sunday with kids running around in their sunday best. If that is your personal death wish fine with me. Think human Pinata.regards rh and dogs Subject: Salton Sea - 5 Jun 2009 From: "Guy" <guymcc AT pacbell.net> Date: Sat, 6 Jun 2009 14:54:50 -0700 I spent Friday, 5 June 2009, at select locations in the Imperial Valley and along the south end of the Salton Sea - overcast, windy and cooler than normal. Species seen/heard - Greater White-fronted Goose (1 - one continuing at Sunbeam Lake near Seeley with resident "domestic geese"), Ross's Goose (1 - one "cripple" at Unit 1 of the Salton Sea National Wildlife Refuge), Cackling Goose (1 - one leucopareia continuing at Sunbeam Lake near Seeley with resident "domestic geese"), Brant (1 - one at Unit 1 of the Salton Sea National Wildlife Refuge was probably the same bird seen here in early May), Gadwall (40), American Wigeon (3), Mallard (50), Cinnamon Teal (40), Northern Shoveler (15), Northern Pintail (2), Green-winged Teal (1), Redhead (150), Lesser Scaup (1), Ruddy Duck (15), Ring-necked Pheasant (1), Gambell's Quail (20), Pied-billed Grebe (5), Eared Grebe (25), Western Grebe (6), Clark's Grebe (2), Aechmophorus Sp (5), American White Pelican (100), Brown Pelican (350), Double-crested Cormorant (500), Great Blue Heron (50 - including birds on nests at Rammer Lake), Great Egret (75 - including birds on nests at Rammer Lake), Snowy Egret (100 - including birds on nests at Rammer Lake), Cattle Egret (3000 - most at nests at Rammer Lake), Green Heron (5), Black-crowned Night-Heron (30 - including birds on nests at Rammer Lake), White-faced Ibis (250 - including birds on nests at Finney Lake), Turkey Vulture (10), American Kestrel (15), Clapper Rail (1), Common Moorhen (5), American Coot (200), Black-bellied Plover (6 - all in basic-plumage), Snowy Plover (30), Semipalmated Plover (27 - a flock of twelve near Red Hill and a flock of fifteen at the north end of Poe Road), Killdeer (15), Black-necked Stilt (150), American Avocet (200), Greater Yellowlegs (1 - one at the north end of Poe Road), Willet (20), Lesser Yellowlegs (1 - one at the intersection of Lack and Lindsey Roads), Long-billed Curlew (6), Marbled Godwit (150), Long-billed Dowitcher (13 - thirteen at the intersection of Lack and Lindsey Roads included eight in basic-plumage), Red-necked Phalarope (1 - one bedraggled looking bird at Unit 1 of the Salton Sea National Wildlife Refuge), Bonaparte's Gull (25), Heermann's Gull (4 - one adult on Sheldon Reservoir, a pair attending a nest at Rock Hill, and an adult at Obsidian Butte), Mew Gull (1 - one bleached and worn first-summer bird near Red Hill), Ring-billed Gull (30), Yellow-footed Gull (75), California Gull (300), Herring Gull (1 - one bleached and worn second-summer bird near the west end of Young Road), Least Tern (6 - six adults at the southwest corner of the Wister Unit), Gull-billed Tern (150), Caspian Tern (750), Black Tern (5), Forster's Tern (100), Elegant Tern (3 - two adults at Fig Lagoon first thing in the morning, and one adult acquiring white on the forehead at Unit 1 of the Salton Sea National Wildlife Refuge), Black Skimmer (50), Rock Pigeon (250), Eurasian Collared-Dove (250), White-winged Dove (40), Mourning Dove (75), Inca Dove (15), Common Ground-Dove (30), Greater Roadrunner (6), Barn Owl (2), Burrowing Owl (10), Lesser Nighthawk (6), Black-chinned Hummingbird (20), Anna's Hummingbird (4), Costa's Hummingbird (1), Gila Woodpecker (5), Ladder-backed Woodpecker (1), Western Wood-Pewee (3), Willow Flycatcher (1), Black Phoebe (15), Western Kingbird (30), Loggerhead Shrike (2), Common Raven (2), Horned Lark (5), Northern Rough-winged Swallow (50), Cliff Swallow (300), Verdin (5), Cactus Wren (1), Marsh Wren (10), Black-tailed Gnatcatcher (2), Northern Mockingbird (15), European Starling (100), Phainopepla (1 - one female in Niland), Common Yellowthroat (5), Abert's Towhee (15), Song Sparrow (10), Blue Grosbeak (2), Red-winged Blackbird (500), Western Meadowlark (30), Yellow-headed Blackbird (5), Brewer's Blackbird (30), Great-tailed Grackle (150), Bronzed Cowbird (2 - a male and female together in Niland), Brown-headed Cowbird (25), Hooded Oriole (1), Bullock's Oriole (3), House Finch (30), Lesser Goldfinch (2 - two at the Wister Unit HQ) and House Sparrow (75). Guy McCaskie 954 Grove Avenue Imperial Beach, CA 91932 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Subject: Zzyzx - Possible Vesper Sparrow From: "telcharnali" <telchar AT earthlink.net> Date: Fri, 05 Jun 2009 23:51:18 -0000 I spend this morning birding at the Desert Studies Center at Zzyzx Road. In the Mesquite around the visitor parking (Orientation area) there was a possible Vesper Sparrow. Heavily streaked breast, white outer tail feathers, small. If anyone is out there this weekend and sees this bird, please post. This sighting would be rare, and late in the year. It was pretty quiet with gusty wind but I did manage to find a Lucy's Warbler in the mesquite at the east end of the main pond (Opposite end from the entrance). Subject: Mountain Bluebirds From: "florockets" <florockets AT yahoo.com> Date: Fri, 05 Jun 2009 15:36:28 -0000 Does anyone know if there are Mountain Bluebirds in the San Jacinto Mountains during the summer. Thanks for any help. Ward Cummings Winchester Subject: Southeastern CA RBA: June 4, 2009 From: Tom Benson <tbenson AT csusb.edu> Date: Fri, 05 Jun 2009 08:49:49 -0700 RBA * California * Southeastern * June 4, 2009 * CASE0906.04 This is the Southeastern CA weekly RBA summary. We cover Imperial, Riverside, and San Bernardino Counties. California Bird Records Committee review species are denoted by asterisks. Names in the report are generally those of the reporting party and not necessarily the person claiming the first sighting. If you are receiving this report only through Birdwest, you can get MORE FREQUENT AND COMPREHENSIVE UPDATES by subscribing to inlandcountybirds (see below). The bird alert phone line housed at the San Bernardino County Museum is no longer in service. If you have a rare bird to report and must use a phone line, please call 909-648-0899. Birds mentioned: Brant Surf Scoter Black Scoter Pacific Loon (possible) Arctic Tern Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Brown-crested Flycatcher Northern Parula Blackburnian Warbler Kentucky Warbler Rose-breasted Grosbeak Indigo Bunting Bronzed Cowbird - Transcript INYO COUNTY A ROSE-BREASTED GROSBEAK, 3 INDIGO BUNTINGS, and a BRONZED COWBIRD were at China Ranch on May 31, and another ROSE-BREASTED GROSBEAK was at Crystal Springs on May 30 (Jim Pike). SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY A YELLOW-BELLIED SAPSUCKER and 2 ROSE-BREASTED GROSBEAKS were at Zzyzx Desert Studies Center on May 28 (Michael San Miguel Jr.). A BLACKBURNIAN WARBLER was seen at Big Morongo on May 30 (Dan Baumann). A KENTUCKY WARBLER and a NORTHERN PARULA were seen at Chet Huffman Park in Baker and a ROSE-BREASTED GROSBEAK was at Horsethief Springs on May 30 (Tom Benson). Two ROSE-BREASTED GROSBEAKS were seen at Horsethief Springs and a NORTHERN PARULA was seen at Sheep Creek Springs on May 30, and 2 INDIGO BUNTINGS were at the Baker sewage ponds on May 31 (Jim Pike). An ARCTIC TERN was found at the north end of Lake Havasu on Jun 1 (Paul Lehman). A ROSE-BREASTED GROSBEAK was seen in Baker on Jun 2 (Madeline Bauer). RIVERSIDE COUNTY At the north end of the Salton Sea a BLACK SCOTER and 25 BRANT were seen at the Whitewater River delta, a SURF SCOTER and a possible PACIFIC LOON were at the end of Hayes, and a BROWN-CRESTED FLYCATCHER and BRONZED COWBIRDS continued at the Palm Island Drive nursery (John Green). IMPERIAL COUNTY No reports. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 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. 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 Tom Benson at tbenson AT csusb.edu or call (909) 648-0899. Note that the phone hotline is no longer available. Please submit your documentation of all California Bird Records Committee review species (denoted by asterisks) to: Guy McCaskie, Secretary, P.O. Box 275, Imperial Beach, CA 91933-0275, E-mail: guymcc AT pacbell.net Additionally, CBRC review species and birds of local or seasonal rarity should be reported to the "North American Birds" County Coordinators. They are: IMPERIAL COUNTY: Guy McCaskie, 954 Grove Avenue, Imperial Beach, CA 91932, guymcc AT pacbell.net INYO COUNTY: Tom & Jo Heindel, P.O. Box 400, Big Pine CA 93513, tjheindel AT aol.com KERN COUNTY: John Wilson 1425 Alta Vista, Bakersfield CA 93305, jcwilson AT lightspeed.net RIVERSIDE COUNTY: John F. Green, 3120 Mount Vernon Ave., Riverside, CA 92507, bewickwren AT earthlink.net SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY: Alexander E. Koonce, 1357 Paige Lane, Redlands, CA 92373, sandy_koonce AT redlands.edu ************ In addition the the Southeastern CA RBA, Los Angeles, Orange, Santa Barbara, and San Diego County reports are posted on BIRDWEST. 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You can view messages at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/inlandcountybirds/ Other birding listservs that include reports of birds in southern California are: Inyo County: http://www.esaudubon.org/birds/ Kern County: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kerncobirding Los Angeles County: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LACoBirds Pasadena area: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PasadenaAudubon Orange County: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/OrangeCountyBirding San Diego County: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SDBIRDS Santa Barbara County: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sbcobirding Ventura County: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/venturacobirding California (statewide): http://groups.yahoo.com/CALBIRDS ************ A schedule of San Bernardino Valley Audubon Society field trips is available on the SBVAS website at http://www.sbvas.org/calendar.htm Maps/directions to local birding sites are available on the SBVAS website at http://www.sbvas.org/maps.htm 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 report to (909) 648-0899 Southern California BIRDBOX (818) 952-5502 + 5 CalTip (CA Fish & Game) (800) 952-5400 (to report wildlife violations) -- For BirdWest archives go to http://listserv.arizona.edu/archives/birdwest.html To change your subscription options, including your address, go to http://listserv.arizona.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=birdwest To contact a listowner, send a message to mailto:birdwest-request AT listserv.arizona.edu ------------------------------------ To Post a message, send it to: inlandcountybirds AT eGroups.com To Unsubscribe, send a blank message to: inlandcountybirds-unsubscribe AT eGroups.comYahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/inlandcountybirds/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/inlandcountybirds/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:inlandcountybirds-digest AT yahoogroups.com mailto:inlandcountybirds-fullfeatured AT yahoogroups.com <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: inlandcountybirds-unsubscribe AT yahoogroups.com <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ Subject: re: bird walk @ CVWBC Sat 6 June From: CYGNETS2 AT aol.com Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2009 11:24:31 EDT There have been a number of requests for another bird walk at the Coachella Valley Wild Bird Center, so we have added one for this Saturday 6 June. Meet at the trailer office at 7:00 am. Please note this is an hour earlier than our Oct-May walks. More info (760) 347-2647 or _www.coachellavalleywildbirdcenter.org_ (http://www.coachellavalleywildbirdcenter.org) . Sandy **************Mortgage rates dropped. Record lows. $200,000 for $1,029/mo Fixed. LendingTree® (http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100126575x1222627882x1201465404/aol?redir=http:%2F%2Fwww.lendingtree.com%2Fborrower%2Falliance%2Ffrom.a sp%3Fwhereto%3Dpromopagev3%26promo%3D00279%26loan%5Ftype%3D2%26source%3D2889 570%26esourceid%3D2889570%26800num%3D1%2D800%2D289%2D3915%26AdType%3D2) [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Subject: Hermit Warbler From: "sillyrivergirl1" <sillyrivergirl1 AT yahoo.com> Date: Thu, 04 Jun 2009 23:00:08 -0000 Thank you Mike for verifing this is a Hermit Warbler. It has been here all day, at Mayflower Park in Blythe,Ca Sandy Greganti Subject: Mayflower Park Blythe Ca From: "sillyrivergirl1" <sillyrivergirl1 AT yahoo.com> Date: Thu, 04 Jun 2009 14:29:05 -0000 Possibly a hermit warbler in my yard this morning. I couldn't get a very good pic but sent it to Rodger Higson... maybe he can verify what it is? I also posted it in my album, Mayflower Park, Blythe, Ca Sandy Greganti Subject: Fw: RE: Blythe Birds A reporting rethink From: m schiffer <mtschiffer AT yahoo.com> Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2009 21:35:41 -0700 (PDT) I agree.  It's just not as fun or interesting without Roger. --- On Wed, 6/3/09, sunishun AT gmail.com wrote: From: sunishun AT gmail.com Subject: RE: [inlandcountybirds] Blythe Birds A reporting rethink To: inlandcountybirds AT yahoogroups.com Date: Wednesday, June 3, 2009, 7:08 PM Indeed. I enjoy reading Roger's views and look forward to his humorous, educational and informative posts. Post on, Man. Post on! -gene candelaria hemet, ca -----Original Message----- From: John Luther Hey Roger and all others, I can't say it any better than Ed!!!! Don't leave Roger. We want to hear from you and even about your birds. John Luther Oakland -----Original Message----- From: Ed Stonick Hey Roger! Don't do it! Rethink your report rethinking! Stay on! Many of us will be very disappointed if you disappear! There'll always be critics. Just don't stoop to their level. Those who spew crud eventually wind up getting it all over themselves. The birds reports are much appreciated (along with the humor). Regards, Ed Ed Stonick Pasadena, CA [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]