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  1. R

    California, 2024

    11 May 2024 I went back to Big Morongo again today. Just because. I walked up the Marsh Trail, Mesquite Trail, and Canyon Trail as far as its junction with the West Canyon Trail. I spent a lot of time at the feeders, trying to get better photos. Success was limited, but I did finally get an ok...
  2. R

    California, 2024

    Big Morongo is mostly open, but the trails connecting one side of the creek with the other are still out so you cannot do a loop, you have to go up and back on each side. The birds seem unaffected and it is still one of my favorite places to bird. My only pelagic so far was a whale watching...
  3. R

    California, 2024

    10 May 2024 Some thoughts about visiting the Mojave National Preserve. It is a beautiful place and has some excellent birding – depending, as anywhere, on the weather. I am quite glad I went. Many of the roads on the Preserve are dirt or gravel. Those I drove were all fine for an ordinary car...
  4. R

    California, 2024

    9 May 2024 I went back to Midhills Campground again this morning. What a difference from two days ago. It was cold and windy and the migrants that had been here were almost all gone. I did, however, find a Juniper Titmouse. The last report of one had it near campsite #21. I parked nearby, gave...
  5. R

    California, 2024

    8 May 2024 I still wanted to get some information about road and trail conditions in the Preserve, so I headed toward the main visitor center in Kelso. On the way I stopped at the Baker Sewage Ponds. If there is water in the desert, birds are not picky about where it comes from. There were a...
  6. R

    California, 2024

    7 May 2024 It was into the Mojave National Preserve today. There are two species there that are hard or impossible to find elsewhere in California, Gilded Flicker and Bendire’s Thrasher. Both may be found in the Joshua tree woodlands in vicinity of Cima, but the best place for the flicker is on...
  7. R

    California, 2024

    6 May 2024 I drove today to Primm, Nevada, with stops at Afton Canyon and Zzyzx. Afton Canyon is a site in the Mojave Desert about 23 miles (37 km) southwest of Baker. Here the Mojave River (calling this a river is perhaps dubious), which mostly runs underground, is pushed up by the local...
  8. R

    California, 2024

    Cinco de Mayo When I was young I was taught that there were three kinds of desert in California: the Great Basin Desert, dominated by sagebrush and found in a strip east of the Sierra Nevada mountains; the Mojave Desert, characterized by Joshua trees and found east of the high southern...
  9. R

    California, 2024

    4 May 2024 I had not planned to do any birding today. It was raining – unusual here in May – and I needed to get ready for a trip to southern California. But yesterday there was an ebird post reporting a Mute Swan in a little lake in the middle of a mobile home park in Scott’s Valley. The post...
  10. R

    California, 2024

    2 May 2024 Family affairs had me heading to Hollister today, and I made a few stops coming and going to look for birds. Old Chittenden Road was the first. This is a short road that parallels the Pajaro River in southeastern Santa Cruz County. A small section is next to riparian habitat by the...
  11. R

    Need help identifying a bird

    Other than the black cap, which might be a matter of lighting, this sounds somewhat like a Northern Flicker.
  12. R

    Sanibel Island, SW Florida, USA - long shot

    Red-bellied Woodpecker would be my guess.
  13. R

    Florida USA (Central FL, Gulf Coast) - Leucistic crow?

    Yes, it a crow with some white feathers. I think American Crow, rather than Fish Crow, assuming it is the same species as the calling birds in the video, but it has been a long time since I have had to distinguish the two.
  14. R

    California, 2024

    24 April 24 I went looking for MacGillivray’s Warblers today, and hoped to perhaps pick-up one or two other new species as well. Empire Grade is a road that runs more-or-less along the ridge separating the San Lorenzo River Valley from the ocean. My first stop was near the northern end of the...
  15. R

    What birds made this nest?

    Stand well away from the box (maybe 50 yards) and watch with your binoculars for a while and you will likely see the bird bringing in nesting material.
  16. R

    California, 2024

    21 April 2024 I intended to start at Zmudowski State Beach this morning, but the entry road was flooded and I did not bring my wading boots. I went on to Moonglow Dairy. A week of sunshine and the mud there had dried up and there was no access problem. There were many shorebirds on one of the...
  17. R

    Bird with powder blue belly brown wings and head in CNY feeder today 04_24_24.

    It is not impossible that you saw a Red-cheeked Cordon-bleu or similar species. These are commonly kept cage-birds and you might have seen an escapee.
  18. R

    Hybrid hummingbird? Laguna Vista, TX USA

    My guess would be that those white feathers on the throat are still developing and that they may look quite different when they finish that process.
  19. R

    California, 2024

    18 April 2024 The lower Pajaro River Valley in southern Santa Cruz County is an area of primarily agricultural land with some seasonal wetlands, riparian habitat along the river, and resorts at the beach. I visited the area on 13 March; a report of a Pectoral Sandpiper and the expectation that...
  20. R

    California, 2024

    16 April 2024 To the top of the hill, I went today. The area I visited is only about 5.5 miles (9 km) away and 2300 ft (700 m) higher than my home (it is visible from my front deck), but that is enough to create an environment there that differs from here and means that some birds breed there...
  21. R

    California, 2024

    Thanks for the kind comments Joe, and to all those who give a post a like.
  22. R

    California, 2024

    14 April 2024 I made my way back to Jetty Road in Moss Landing today. The tide was very low and many of the birds were on far-off mudflats. Shorebird diversity still was high, but the number of ducks was down. There were some new arrivals. Roosting on the sand bar was a small flock of Elegant...
  23. R

    California, 2024

    11 April 2024 Needing to go down to Santa Cruz to do some errands this morning, I stopped for some quick birding at the campground at Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park. The campground is not in the redwoods, or in the riparian-like habitat of the picnic grounds, but in an open oak forest. The...
  24. R

    Female blackpoll warbler?

    I think the combination of tail spots and yellowish legs make that the most likely possibility, but as always it is best to give the date and location of the photo.
  25. R

    California, 2024

    9 April 2024 I went back to the south coast of San Mateo County today. I started at Pescadero State Beach. A Lesser Black-backed Gull was seen here a few days ago, and that would be a good species to get. I was not particularly optimistic, however, as it had not been seen since, although some...
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