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18 Jun Fwd: [SDBIRDS] Missing exotic stork [Douglas Aguillard ] 18 Jun MASKED/NAZCA Booby off La Jolla ["lehman.paul AT verizon.net" ] 18 Jun Cruising the Sacramento River for Birds ["debbieviess" ] 18 Jun Re: [LACoBirds] White-rumped Sandpiper; Piute Ponds, LA County [] 18 Jun Re: White-rumped Sandpiper; Piute Ponds, LA County [] 17 Jun The Del Norte Co. Bar-tailed Godwit [Alan Barron ] 17 Jun Re: White-rumped Sandpiper; Piute Ponds, LA County [Mark Scheel ] 17 Jun White-rumped Sandpiper Access (Have if someone wishes to go) [Monte Taylor ] 17 Jun San Diego pelagic: BULLER'S, Brown Booby, Ashies, Black-vent ["lehman.paul AT verizon.net" ] 16 Jun Re: Short article on song playback [Joseph Morlan ] 17 Jun Short article on song playback ["Jim" ] 16 Jun FW: Jamie Mullin [Jamie Mullin ] 15 Jun oops! ["prairie5mom" ] 15 Jun hummers ["prairie5mom" ] 13 Jun MY EMAIL ACCOUNT HAS BEEN HACKED! [] 12 Jun Three WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPERS still in Del Norte Co. [Alan Barron ] 12 Jun Still there this morning: [CB] White-rumped Sandpipers in Del Norte County [John Sterling ] 11 Jun White-rumped Sandpipers in Del Norte County [Rob Fowler ] 11 Jun Del Norte Co. - NO White-rumped Sandp., but a new Parula Warb. [Alan Barron ] 11 Jun Pelagic Trips for Everyone [DEBRA SHEARWATER ] 10 Jun Del Norte Co. White-rumped Sandpiper photos [Alan Barron ] 10 Jun (unknown) [debbie viess ] 9 Jun LA Audubon and Pasadena AS early meeting announcement October 16, 2013 [Mary & Nick Freeman ] 05 Jun First California Least Tern nesting record in Malibu Lagoon since 1940! ["royalcinclodes" ] 05 Jun RE: GrayJays in Northern California along 5 Freeway ["Bruce E. Webb" ] 4 Jun Re: Arctic Loon [John Top ] 4 Jun GrayJays in Northern California along 5 Freeway [john small ] 4 Jun Fwd: [SFBirds] Alder Flycatcher [Matt Brady ] 04 Jun Arctic Loon ["peterginsburg" ] 3 Jun "Lazigo" Bunting Arcata Marsh 3 June [Rob Fowler ] 03 Jun Arctic Loon ["Gary G" ] 2 Jun June-July RRAS field trips [Rob Fowler ] 2 Jun Pelagic Cruise off no. Humboldt and Del Norte Counties [Barbara Carlson ] 01 Jun Re: Whip poor will of Freedom [Dave Weber ] 01 Jun Whip poor will of Freedom [Dave Weber ] 1 Jun North American Birds (S. California Region) - Reports for Spring 2013 ["Guy McCaskie" ] 1 Jun North American Birds (S. California Region) - Reports for Spring 2013 ["Guy McCaskie" ] 1 Jun North American Birds (S. California Region) - Reports for Spring 2013 ["Guy McCaskie" ] 30 May Kern desert highlights May 29-30 [Steven Tucker ] 30 May Re: [CALBIRDS] Continuing Eastern Whippoorwill [Joseph Morlan ] 30 May Re: Continuing Eastern Whippoorwill [Joseph Morlan ] 30 May Varied Buntings at Oasis Ranch ["Peter" ] 29 May Continuing Eastern Whippoorwill ["Koonce, Sandy" ] 29 May RE: Eastern Whip-poor-will access update 5/27 ["Michael Feighner" ] 29 May RE: Eastern Whip-poor-will access update 5/27 ["Michael Feighner" ] 29 May Re: [CB] Eastern Whip-poor-will access update 5/27 [Joseph Morlan ] 29 May Giant Sequoia National Monument Owling Trip [Bob Barnes ] 29 May RE: [MBB] Whip-poor-will right on schedule [Bruce Mast ] 29 May RE: FWD: Varied Bunting in Oasis ["Todd Easterla" ] 28 May RE: chuck notes and nighjars. [Bruce Mast ] 28 May RE: chuck notes and nighjars. [Bruce Mast ] 28 May Re: FWD: Varied Bunting in Oasis [John Sterling ] 28 May FWD: Varied Bunting in Oasis ["Koonce, Sandy" ] 28 May upcoming San Diego June 16 pelagic trip ["lehman.paul AT verizon.net" ] 28 May Re: Whip-poor-will right on schedule [Bruce Mast ] 28 May chuck notes and nighjars. ["Alvaro Jaramillo" ] 28 May chuck notes and nighjars. ["Alvaro Jaramillo" ] 28 May Re: [MBB] Whip-poor-will right on schedule [Bruce Mast ] 27 May Re: [NBB] FW: Bodega Bay Booby [Denise Herzberg ] 27 May Re: FW: Bodega Bay Booby [Denise Herzberg ] 26 May FW: Bodega Bay Booby ["Alvaro Jaramillo" ] 26 May FW: Bodega Bay Booby ["Alvaro Jaramillo" ] 26 May Flamingo at Salton Sea [Judy Johnson ] 26 May Hudsonian godwit imperial county [John Sterling ] 26 May RE: Apparent Eastern Whip-poor-will at Aptos in Santa Cruz County [Lance Benner ] 26 May Baltimore Oriole, chiriaco summit ["Dan" ] 25 May HUDWIT still present ["Dan" ] 24 May Re: Hudsonian Godwit in Imperial Valley continues [Bob Miller ] 24 May Re: Harris's Hawk Jacumba?? [Chet Ogan ] 24 May Harris's Hawk Jacumba?? ["toddeasterla" ] 22 May Fw: Two Peregrine Falcons in DWTN Riverside [] 21 May Re: unrecognized bird in a nest ["Sally M. Walters" ] 21 May RE: unrecognized bird in a nest ["Willick, Doug" ] 21 May unrecognized bird in a nest ["sjondur" ] 20 May Re: Possible Blue Jay (Mendocino) ["brdnrd59" ] 19 May Mendocino Pelagic Trip [John Sterling ] Subject: Fwd: [SDBIRDS] Missing exotic stork From: Douglas Aguillard <dwaguillard AT gmail.com> Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:25:38 -0700 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Hillary Date: Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 11:53 AM Subject: [SDBIRDS] Missing exotic stork To: SDBIRDS AT yahoogroups.com ** Hey SD Birders We are missing a fully flighted juvenile Painted Stork from the San Diego Safari Park. She is a young, zoo hatched, hand raised, painted stork and was carried off by the wind Monday during her free-flight training demonstration. She hit a high thermal and might be anywhere in the North County, Valley Center, Escondido, Ramona, etc areas. Anyone with information can please call the Safari Park's Ranger Base at 760-738-5010and give them as much information as you can so the Rangers can tell the proper Keepers and Trainers where to go recover her. She needs help and the trainers are very worried. I will include a picture later today when I can! Thanks all! Hillary -- Doug Aguillard National City, CA dwaguillard AT gmail.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Unsubscribe: mailto:CALBIRDS-unsubscribe AT yahoogroups.com Website: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CALBIRDS Listowners: mailto:CALBIRDS-owner AT yahoogroups.com For vacation suspension of mail go to the website. Click on Edit My Membership and set your mail option to No Email. Or, send a blank email to these addresses: Turn off email delivery: mailto:CALBIRDS-nomail AT yahoogroups.com Resume email delivery: mailto:CALBIRDS-normal AT yahoogroups.com Subject: MASKED/NAZCA Booby off La Jolla From: "lehman.paul AT verizon.net" <lehman.paul@verizon.net> Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:40:44 -0400 Tuesday morning I was doing my second boring AM seawatch in as many days at La Jolla when an immature (first-year) MASKED/NAZCA BOOBY appeared at moderate distance offshore at 7:30AM. The bird was a typical one-year-old with dark warm-brown head, slightly lighter warm-brown upperparts, gleaming white underneath from throat through vent, and white middle to underwing. Bill appeared just "dark". Birds of this age cannot be safely separable to species--Masked vs. Nazca--in the field. I called Jay K., who had departed only two minutes earlier, on the phone, and he returned and saw it. BJ was farther down the shore; not sure if he connected or not. The bird then spent the next 10+ minutes circling around only about 100 yards beyond the kelp, but a bit south of Children's Pool, periodically diving in the water after fish. It generally kept to itself, although there were scattered single pelicans around, diving as well. At 7:45 the booby finally headed back straight out to sea toward a large school of dolphins, and disappeared. I departed soon thereafter, but Gary N. then arrived and was going to give it a look for an hour. Almost all boobies seen at La Jolla over the years make just one pass or stay a few minutes and then leave. But given the fact that this bird was repeatedly diving, one can only hope that it was finding enough food that it might make a return visit..... still a long shot, however. And the overall seabird activity off La Jolla continues terrible. Other than the booby I saw a grand total of one Sooty Shearwater this morning. And yesterday morning--looking offshore there for 2-1/2 hours--Curtis M. and I saw absolutely nothing of any interest. --Paul Lehman, San Diego -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web.com - Microsoft® Exchange solutions from a leading provider - http://link.mail2web.com/Business/Exchange ------------------------------------ Unsubscribe: mailto:CALBIRDS-unsubscribe AT yahoogroups.com Website: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CALBIRDS Listowners: mailto:CALBIRDS-owner AT yahoogroups.com For vacation suspension of mail go to the website. Click on Edit My Membership and set your mail option to No Email. Or, send a blank email to these addresses: Turn off email delivery: mailto:CALBIRDS-nomail AT yahoogroups.com Resume email delivery: mailto:CALBIRDS-normal AT yahoogroups.com Subject: Cruising the Sacramento River for Birds From: "debbieviess" <amanitarita AT sbcglobal.net> Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 16:14:53 -0000 We recently visited friends in the Yuba City area, and were delighted to see abundant birdlife. Especially fun were the flooded rice fields, where dozens of white faced ibis could be observed. They have really adapted well to this new Sacramento Valley habitat. Why, it's almost like the wetlands that used to be there! It's not ideal, but its the best that is available for now, and thank heavens for it. We also checked out the Audubon Sanctuary along Hwy 99, gorgeous bit of riparian corridor, full of introduced, non-native, but providentially, fruit-bearing trees and vines and shrubs. Sometimes, our introductions actually work in favor of the birds. Himalayan blackberry vines, plum trees, fig trees, wild grapes...they were everywhere, along with native cottonwood and sycamore and oak. Heck, we were grateful, too, for the juice of ripe blackberries, since we didn't bring water for our four mile hike, and it was a typical scorcher in the Valley. We were also there at mid-day (yeah, timing is all), but you could tell that it was a little slice of bird paradise. Later that evening, our friends surprised us with a boat trip down the Sacramento to Colusa. We spied at least a hundred active nest holes of bank swallows in the mud banks along the river, and observed osprey in flight and at dinner. One bird soared past with a fish in its talons. Once perched, I could see that its fish was a salmonid, probably one of the native trout. The bird did not appreciate our staring at him, especially with our big-eyed binocs, so he paused in his repast. He had one talon in the fish's gills, pining him to the tree trunk. Apparently NOT a killing hold though, since the poor thing was still flipping up its tail and I swear I could even see it gasping through my binocs. Gruesome business, predation. Still, off we went for our own fish dinners at a riverside restaurant. Guess we're predators, too. Happy birding, Debbie Viess Oakland, CA ------------------------------------ Unsubscribe: mailto:CALBIRDS-unsubscribe AT yahoogroups.com Website: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CALBIRDS Listowners: mailto:CALBIRDS-owner AT yahoogroups.com For vacation suspension of mail go to the website. Click on Edit My Membership and set your mail option to No Email. Or, send a blank email to these addresses: Turn off email delivery: mailto:CALBIRDS-nomail AT yahoogroups.com Resume email delivery: mailto:CALBIRDS-normal AT yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [LACoBirds] White-rumped Sandpiper; Piute Ponds, LA County From: Thomasabenson AT aol.com Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 00:58:08 -0400 (EDT) I have placed a few photos of the White-rumped Sandpiper from this afternoon on my Flickr page. Tom Benson San Bernardino, CA http://www.flickr.com/photos/40928097 AT N07/ -----Original Message----- From: Mark Scheel To: Jonathan Feenstra Cc: calbirds ; lacobirds Sent: Mon, Jun 17, 2013 9:19 pm Subject: Re: [LACoBirds] White-rumped Sandpiper; Piute Ponds, LA County Hi all, The White-Rumped Sandpiper was still at Piute Ponds when we left at sunset. It was associating with a few Killdeer, and moved around alot, following the Killdeer when they flew. We first found it in the south Ducks Unlimited pond. When we left it, it was in the small wetland just south of the 'coot chute' inflow from the sewage ponds: this is about 100 meters west of division street, i.e. on the opposite side of division street as the main ponds. Division street is the north-south road along the power lines. Remember, permission is required for entry into Piute Ponds. Good birding, Frank Gilliland Susan Gilliland Mark Scheel Pasadena On Jun 17, 2013 5:40 PM, "Jonathan Feenstra" wrote: [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Unsubscribe: mailto:LACoBirds-unsubscribe AT yahoogroups.com Website: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LACoBirds Listowners: mailto:LACoBirds-owner AT yahoogroups.com For vacation suspension of mail go to the website. Click on Edit My Membership and set your mail option to No Email. Or, send a blank email to these addresses: Turn off email delivery: mailto:LACoBirds-nomail AT yahoogroups.com Resume email delivery: mailto:LACoBirds-normal AT yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: White-rumped Sandpiper; Piute Ponds, LA County From: Thomasabenson AT aol.com Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 00:58:08 -0400 (EDT) I have placed a few photos of the White-rumped Sandpiper from this afternoon on my Flickr page. Tom Benson San Bernardino, CA http://www.flickr.com/photos/40928097 AT N07/ -----Original Message----- From: Mark Scheel To: Jonathan Feenstra Cc: calbirds ; lacobirds Sent: Mon, Jun 17, 2013 9:19 pm Subject: Re: [LACoBirds] White-rumped Sandpiper; Piute Ponds, LA County Hi all, The White-Rumped Sandpiper was still at Piute Ponds when we left at sunset. It was associating with a few Killdeer, and moved around alot, following the Killdeer when they flew. We first found it in the south Ducks Unlimited pond. When we left it, it was in the small wetland just south of the 'coot chute' inflow from the sewage ponds: this is about 100 meters west of division street, i.e. on the opposite side of division street as the main ponds. Division street is the north-south road along the power lines. Remember, permission is required for entry into Piute Ponds. Good birding, Frank Gilliland Susan Gilliland Mark Scheel Pasadena On Jun 17, 2013 5:40 PM, "Jonathan Feenstra" wrote: [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Unsubscribe: mailto:LACoBirds-unsubscribe AT yahoogroups.com Website: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LACoBirds Listowners: mailto:LACoBirds-owner AT yahoogroups.com For vacation suspension of mail go to the website. Click on Edit My Membership and set your mail option to No Email. Or, send a blank email to these addresses: Turn off email delivery: mailto:LACoBirds-nomail AT yahoogroups.com Resume email delivery: mailto:LACoBirds-normal AT yahoogroups.com Subject: The Del Norte Co. Bar-tailed Godwit From: Alan Barron <flockfinder AT yahoo.com> Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2013 21:37:32 -0700 (PDT)         The very dull colored Bar-tailed Godwit that Lucas Brug found around 7:30 pm was still at the Elk Creek mouth in the Crescent City Harbor at 9 pm, and was also seen by me, Sky Lloyd, and Jim Lomax. Alan D. Barron Subject: Re: White-rumped Sandpiper; Piute Ponds, LA County From: Mark Scheel <scheel314 AT gmail.com> Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2013 21:19:51 -0700 Hi all, The White-Rumped Sandpiper was still at Piute Ponds when we left at sunset. It was associating with a few Killdeer, and moved around alot, following the Killdeer when they flew. We first found it in the south Ducks Unlimited pond. When we left it, it was in the small wetland just south of the 'coot chute' inflow from the sewage ponds: this is about 100 meters west of division street, i.e. on the opposite side of division street as the main ponds. Division street is the north-south road along the power lines. Remember, permission is required for entry into Piute Ponds. Good birding, Frank Gilliland Susan Gilliland Mark Scheel Pasadena On Jun 17, 2013 5:40 PM, "Jonathan Feenstra" wrote: [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Unsubscribe: mailto:LACoBirds-unsubscribe AT yahoogroups.com Website: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LACoBirds Listowners: mailto:LACoBirds-owner AT yahoogroups.com For vacation suspension of mail go to the website. Click on Edit My Membership and set your mail option to No Email. Or, send a blank email to these addresses: Turn off email delivery: mailto:LACoBirds-nomail AT yahoogroups.com Resume email delivery: mailto:LACoBirds-normal AT yahoogroups.com Subject: White-rumped Sandpiper Access (Have if someone wishes to go) From: Monte Taylor <tsuru88 AT gmail.com> Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:39:51 -0700 If someone wanted to go (I'm in Orange County) up for the White-rumped Sandpiper, I have an access letter so contact me off list. Monte Taylor tsuru88 AT gmail.com -- Monte M. Taylor (蒙特·泰勒) Orange County, CA http://www.tsuru-bird.net Birds, Mammals, Cetaceans, and more. On the Web since 1997 with over 830 species photographed from the ABA area. Over 1,400 total photographed from Japan, China, Thailand, and Hong Kong - all photographed free and unrestrained ---- *Character Counts *Character is doing the right thing when nobody is watching! "Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are." And, "It's what you learn after you know it all, that counts!" - John Wooden [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Unsubscribe: mailto:CALBIRDS-unsubscribe AT yahoogroups.com Website: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CALBIRDS Listowners: mailto:CALBIRDS-owner AT yahoogroups.com For vacation suspension of mail go to the website. Click on Edit My Membership and set your mail option to No Email. Or, send a blank email to these addresses: Turn off email delivery: mailto:CALBIRDS-nomail AT yahoogroups.com Resume email delivery: mailto:CALBIRDS-normal AT yahoogroups.com Subject: San Diego pelagic: BULLER'S, Brown Booby, Ashies, Black-vent From: "lehman.paul AT verizon.net" <lehman.paul@verizon.net> Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2013 12:49:57 -0400 The 12-hour pelagic trip on Sunday, June 16, aboard "Grande" out of San Diego to the 9-Mile and 30-Mile Banks in light seas produced the following: Pacific Loon: 2 Pink-footed Shearwater: 60 BULLER'S SHEARWATER: 1 (see below) Sooty Shearwater: 550 BLACK-VENTED SHEARWATER: 1 (early) Black Storm-Petrel: 70 Ashy Storm-Petrel: 4 (30-Mile Bank) BROWN BOOBY: 1 (sub-adult 19 nm W of tip of Point Loma) Least Tern: 8 (incl. as far offshore as 30-Mile Bank) Elegant Tern: 25 Royal Tern: 3 Common Tern: 2 (one-year-olds) Pomarine Jaeger: 1 COMMON MURRE: 1 (rare in summer) Scripps's Murrelet: 3 Cassin's Auklet: 20 Also a BLUE WHALE directly under the boat! (Could see part of it sticking well out one side of boat while the other side stuck well out the other!) BULLER'S SHEARWATER: exceptionally early arrival, 14 nm W of tip of Point Loma, first spotted by Matt Sadowski, photo'd. The previous earliest arrival for San Diego waters is in late July, and the species is typically not "regular" off s. CA until late August, if then. Interestingly, I saw one just 8 days earlier off Oregon, which is the first June record there; so it will be interesting to see if these are just two random, very rare events or part of a larger-scale 'event' unfolding in 2013. --Paul Lehman, San Diego -------------------------------------------------------------------- myhosting.com - Premium Microsoft® Windows® and Linux web and application hosting - http://link.myhosting.com/myhosting ------------------------------------ Unsubscribe: mailto:CALBIRDS-unsubscribe AT yahoogroups.com Website: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CALBIRDS Listowners: mailto:CALBIRDS-owner AT yahoogroups.com For vacation suspension of mail go to the website. Click on Edit My Membership and set your mail option to No Email. Or, send a blank email to these addresses: Turn off email delivery: mailto:CALBIRDS-nomail AT yahoogroups.com Resume email delivery: mailto:CALBIRDS-normal AT yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: Short article on song playback From: Joseph Morlan <jmorlan AT gmail.com> Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2013 19:12:52 -0700 Jim, The full article is at.... http://news.yahoo.com/smartphone-apps-may-killing-birds-175205275.html At latest count this article generated 121 comments and a thread on the Carolina Birds email list in which Mike Tove claimed that studies on song playback have shown it does no harm. http://birding.aba.org/message.php?mesid=461541&MLID=NzC&MLNM=North%20and%20South%20Carolina I'm not sure which studies Tove is referencing in his mention of "Multiple studies on passerine reaction dating back to the 1970's." It would be very interesting to get actual citations. In 2011, David Sibley posted on this subject in his blog... http://www.sibleyguides.com/2011/04/the-proper-use-of-playback-in-birding/ Sibley claims there is no concrete evidence either way. On Mon, 17 Jun 2013 01:39:23 -0000, "Jim" wrote: >Hi, > >The Orange County Register includes an interesting section called "Earthweek: A Diary of the Planet" on Sundays. Today's edition includes a snippet that seems relevant to the current birding scene, and worthy of consideration: > >"Birdwatchers who play back birdsongs on their smartphones to attract wild birds can stop the winged creatures from performing important tasks like feeding their young, experts warn. The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) says it is receiving more reports of people playing birdsong recordings so they can photograph birds or observe them up close. "It is selfish and shows no respect to the bird. People should never use playback to attract a species during its breeding season," said southern Wales RSPB spokesman Tony Whitehead. Bird expert Chris Thain told the BBC that people would be "devastated" if they realized how much harm the use of the apps can cause to wildlife. > >Jim Pike >HB -- Joseph Morlan, Pacifica, CA "It turns out we're very good at not seeing things" - Jack Hitt ------------------------------------ Unsubscribe: mailto:CALBIRDS-unsubscribe AT yahoogroups.com Website: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CALBIRDS Listowners: mailto:CALBIRDS-owner AT yahoogroups.com For vacation suspension of mail go to the website. Click on Edit My Membership and set your mail option to No Email. Or, send a blank email to these addresses: Turn off email delivery: mailto:CALBIRDS-nomail AT yahoogroups.com Resume email delivery: mailto:CALBIRDS-normal AT yahoogroups.com Subject: Short article on song playback From: "Jim" <jpike44 AT earthlink.net> Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2013 01:39:23 -0000 Hi, The Orange County Register includes an interesting section called "Earthweek: A Diary of the Planet" on Sundays. Today's edition includes a snippet that seems relevant to the current birding scene, and worthy of consideration: "Birdwatchers who play back birdsongs on their smartphones to attract wild birds can stop the winged creatures from performing important tasks like feeding their young, experts warn. The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) says it is receiving more reports of people playing birdsong recordings so they can photograph birds or observe them up close. "It is selfish and shows no respect to the bird. People should never use playback to attract a species during its breeding season," said southern Wales RSPB spokesman Tony Whitehead. Bird expert Chris Thain told the BBC that people would be "devastated" if they realized how much harm the use of the apps can cause to wildlife. Jim Pike HB ------------------------------------ Unsubscribe: mailto:CALBIRDS-unsubscribe AT yahoogroups.com Website: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CALBIRDS Listowners: mailto:CALBIRDS-owner AT yahoogroups.com For vacation suspension of mail go to the website. Click on Edit My Membership and set your mail option to No Email. Or, send a blank email to these addresses: Turn off email delivery: mailto:CALBIRDS-nomail AT yahoogroups.com Resume email delivery: mailto:CALBIRDS-normal AT yahoogroups.com Subject: FW: Jamie Mullin From: Jamie Mullin <birding_jamie AT yahoo.com> Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2013 08:00:53 -0700 (PDT) wer http://www.segrade.es/qu/gdoruvvmqqagmo/horxhvgkelrdlce/upptnqiinmnuv.php Jamie Mullin [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Unsubscribe: mailto:CALBIRDS-unsubscribe AT yahoogroups.com Website: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CALBIRDS Listowners: mailto:CALBIRDS-owner AT yahoogroups.com For vacation suspension of mail go to the website. Click on Edit My Membership and set your mail option to No Email. Or, send a blank email to these addresses: Turn off email delivery: mailto:CALBIRDS-nomail AT yahoogroups.com Resume email delivery: mailto:CALBIRDS-normal AT yahoogroups.com Subject: oops! From: "prairie5mom" <wypafl AT gmail.com> Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2013 02:32:07 -0000 Sorry, I forgot my full name! Judi Ogle Burns, WY ------------------------------------ Unsubscribe: mailto:CALBIRDS-unsubscribe AT yahoogroups.com Website: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CALBIRDS Listowners: mailto:CALBIRDS-owner AT yahoogroups.com For vacation suspension of mail go to the website. Click on Edit My Membership and set your mail option to No Email. Or, send a blank email to these addresses: Turn off email delivery: mailto:CALBIRDS-nomail AT yahoogroups.com Resume email delivery: mailto:CALBIRDS-normal AT yahoogroups.com Subject: hummers From: "prairie5mom" <wypafl AT gmail.com> Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2013 02:30:38 -0000 Hello, I am a birder from SE Wyoming and am visiting family in the Bakersfield area. I am wondering what typical hummers are here. I know I saw an Anna's hummingbird but I also saw another larger hummer. It had a white supercillum with a dark line through and a bit under the eye. It had a fairly long, straight bill. The wings were even with the tail. I only saw it fairly briefly so I did not get a good look at the tail. Only large hummer is a magnificent but since it doesn't seem that has been seen here I am doubting that. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Judi ------------------------------------ Unsubscribe: mailto:CALBIRDS-unsubscribe AT yahoogroups.com Website: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CALBIRDS Listowners: mailto:CALBIRDS-owner AT yahoogroups.com For vacation suspension of mail go to the website. Click on Edit My Membership and set your mail option to No Email. Or, send a blank email to these addresses: Turn off email delivery: mailto:CALBIRDS-nomail AT yahoogroups.com Resume email delivery: mailto:CALBIRDS-normal AT yahoogroups.com Subject: MY EMAIL ACCOUNT HAS BEEN HACKED! From: Naturestoc AT aol.com Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2013 22:17:00 -0400 (EDT) Hi friends. MY email account has been hacked. Do not open and/or download anything from me with no subject in the subject line! Sorry, dan Dan Brown, www.naturestoc.smugmug.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Subject: Three WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPERS still in Del Norte Co. From: Alan Barron <flockfinder AT yahoo.com> Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2013 08:51:06 -0700 (PDT)     As of 8am the 3 adult White-rumped Sandpipers are still at the Alexandre Dairy near Fort Dick at the big pond along Lower Lake Road. Alan D. Barron Subject: Still there this morning: [CB] White-rumped Sandpipers in Del Norte County From: John Sterling <jsterling AT wavecable.com> Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2013 08:34:54 -0700 the sandpipers are still there this morning according to Alan Barron John Sterling VVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVV 26 Palm Ave Woodland, CA 95695 530 908-3836 jsterling AT wavecable.com On Jun 11, 2013, at 9:19 PM, Rob Fowler wrote: > Hi all, > I'm sure most of you had heard about the THREE White-rumped Sandpipers that > were found late yesterday evening by Lucas Brug and confirmed and > photographed by Alan Barron. Lucas's original message to NWCALBIRD here: > http://digest.sialia.com/?rm=message;id=687569 > Alan's message with a photo here: > http://digest.sialia.com/?rm=message;id=687574 > > Well, they weren't seen this morning despite much searching but, according > to Lucas's birdbox message this evening (707.822.LOON) and Alan Barron > calling me, the 3 White-rumpeds have returned to the Alexandre Dairy pond > in the Smith River Bottoms of Del Norte County. They were at the the main > dairy pond again later this evening around 7:00 p.m. > > Going for them tomorrow morning..... > > -- > Rob Fowler > McKinleyville, CA > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Unsubscribe: mailto:CALBIRDS-unsubscribe AT yahoogroups.com Website: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CALBIRDS Listowners: mailto:CALBIRDS-owner AT yahoogroups.com For vacation suspension of mail go to the website. Click on Edit My Membership and set your mail option to No Email. Or, send a blank email to these addresses: Turn off email delivery: mailto:CALBIRDS-nomail AT yahoogroups.com Resume email delivery: mailto:CALBIRDS-normal AT yahoogroups.com Subject: White-rumped Sandpipers in Del Norte County From: Rob Fowler <migratoriusfwlr AT gmail.com> Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2013 21:19:41 -0700 Hi all, I'm sure most of you had heard about the THREE White-rumped Sandpipers that were found late yesterday evening by Lucas Brug and confirmed and photographed by Alan Barron. Lucas's original message to NWCALBIRD here: http://digest.sialia.com/?rm=message;id=687569 Alan's message with a photo here: http://digest.sialia.com/?rm=message;id=687574 Well, they weren't seen this morning despite much searching but, according to Lucas's birdbox message this evening (707.822.LOON) and Alan Barron calling me, the 3 White-rumpeds have returned to the Alexandre Dairy pond in the Smith River Bottoms of Del Norte County. They were at the the main dairy pond again later this evening around 7:00 p.m. Going for them tomorrow morning..... -- Rob Fowler McKinleyville, CA [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Unsubscribe: mailto:CALBIRDS-unsubscribe AT yahoogroups.com Website: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CALBIRDS Listowners: mailto:CALBIRDS-owner AT yahoogroups.com For vacation suspension of mail go to the website. Click on Edit My Membership and set your mail option to No Email. Or, send a blank email to these addresses: Turn off email delivery: mailto:CALBIRDS-nomail AT yahoogroups.com Resume email delivery: mailto:CALBIRDS-normal AT yahoogroups.com Subject: Del Norte Co. - NO White-rumped Sandp., but a new Parula Warb. From: Alan Barron <flockfinder AT yahoo.com> Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2013 09:36:26 -0700 (PDT)     From sunrise to 7:30am this morning I was unable to refind the 3 White-rumped Sandpipers that where at the big pond along Lower Lake Road at the Alexandre Dairy near Fort Dick yesterday.   I did find a beautiful singing male Parula Warbler in Crescent City at the cemetery on Cooper Avenue just off Hwy 101. Cooper Ave. is a left turn off 101 at the next to the last traffic light in town while heading north, cemetery entrance an immediate right turn from Cooper. The warbler is at the rear of the cemetery in large Sitka Spruce trees.   Alan D. Barron Subject: Pelagic Trips for Everyone From: DEBRA SHEARWATER <debi AT shearwaterjourneys.com> Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2013 12:45:44 +0400 Howdy, Seabirders, Shearwater Journeys' pelagic schedule is available for all birders, beginners, "old salts," photographers and those wishing to experience the world beyond our shores. This year is our 38th year of offering seabird trips and we invite you to join us. Our friendly and expert leaders will be on board to assist you. Booking trips from different harbors can give one a well rounded fall seabird experience. You can find the complete program of trips at: http://www.shearwaterjourneys.com/schedule.shtml If you prefer to view in calendar format: http://www.shearwaterjourneys.com/calendar.shtml For more details see: http://shearwaterjourneys.blogspot.no/2013/06/image-copyright-todd-mcgrath-ahoy-there.html Monterey trips: (Covering Monterey and Santa Cruz Counties) http://shearwaterjourneys.blogspot.no/2013/06/monterey-seabirds-with-shearwater.html Albacore Grounds trip from Monterey: (Covering Monterey and Santa Cruz Counties, sometimes into San Mateo) http://shearwaterjourneys.blogspot.no/2013/06/albacore-grounds-offshore-monterey.html Half Moon Bay trips: (Covering San Mateo and San Francisco Counties) http://shearwaterjourneys.blogspot.no/2013/06/half-moon-bay-pelagic-trips.html Bodega Bay trips: (Covering Sonoma and Marin Counties) http://shearwaterjourneys.blogspot.no/2013/06/cordell-bank-bodega-canyon-seabird-trips.html Trips from Sausalito to the Farallones Islands: (Covering San Francisco County) http://shearwaterjourneys.blogspot.no/2013/06/wanted-tufted-puffin-great-white-shark.html This represents the most extensive program of pelagic trips on offer for birders, anywhere on the West Coast. There is something here for every birder! Spaces are available on all trips at this time. The October 20th Great White Shark trip has a limited number of spaces available, so book soon. The Tufted Puffin trip, August 4th and the Albacore trip typically sell out every year. Please book early. I can only be reached by email until 11 July, although reservations can still be sent in. Every fall season is different! Get out there! Shearwaters forever, Debi DEBRA SHEARWATER Shearwater Journeys, Inc. PO Box 190 Hollister, CA 95024 831.637.8527 debi AT shearwaterjourneys.com www.shearwaterjourneys.com www.shearwaterjourneys.blogspot.com Birding Down Under: SubAntarctic Islands, November 9 - 25, 2014 with Debi [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Unsubscribe: mailto:CALBIRDS-unsubscribe AT yahoogroups.com Website: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CALBIRDS Listowners: mailto:CALBIRDS-owner AT yahoogroups.com For vacation suspension of mail go to the website. Click on Edit My Membership and set your mail option to No Email. Or, send a blank email to these addresses: Turn off email delivery: mailto:CALBIRDS-nomail AT yahoogroups.com Resume email delivery: mailto:CALBIRDS-normal AT yahoogroups.com Subject: Del Norte Co. White-rumped Sandpiper photos From: Alan Barron <flockfinder AT yahoo.com> Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2013 21:59:31 -0700 (PDT)     Here is one of 3 the White-rumped Sandpipers I photographed at the Alexandre Dairy near Fort Dick this evening found by Lucas Brug:   http://www.westernfieldornithologists.org/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-601   Alan D. Barron Subject: (unknown) From: debbie viess <amanitarita AT sbcglobal.net> Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2013 20:41:58 -0700 (PDT) http://vizit-tour.com/coughingcampadamjames/ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Unsubscribe: mailto:CALBIRDS-unsubscribe AT yahoogroups.com Website: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CALBIRDS Listowners: mailto:CALBIRDS-owner AT yahoogroups.com For vacation suspension of mail go to the website. Click on Edit My Membership and set your mail option to No Email. Or, send a blank email to these addresses: Turn off email delivery: mailto:CALBIRDS-nomail AT yahoogroups.com Resume email delivery: mailto:CALBIRDS-normal AT yahoogroups.com Subject: LA Audubon and Pasadena AS early meeting announcement October 16, 2013 From: Mary & Nick Freeman <mnfreeman AT earthlink.net> Date: Sun, 9 Jun 2013 18:08:41 -0700 Hi Birders Los Angeles Audubon Society and Pasadena Audubon Society are sending out an early reminder to all birders, welcoming them to our joint October monthly meeting. We are combining our monthly meetings to accommodate a special guest speaker, who will also be conducting a workshop (see below). LAAS is moving their monthly meeting date to Wednesday, October 16, 2013, and the meeting site will be Eaton Canyon Nature Center in Pasadena, CA. Want to learn more about warbler ID, especially those fall plumages? Read on! Tom Stephenson presents: "The Overlooked ID Points that Make Identifying Warblers Easier" Tom Stephenson and Scott Whittle have recently finished penning "The Warbler Guide", which is just now being released. Tom will speak at the monthly meeting of this new and exciting Princeton Press publication. It's filled with many photos and methods on warbler identification. Their new book is receiving high praise, and Tom will be coming to the west coast from Brooklyn, New York to talk about the book and warbler ID pointers. Tom is a great speaker, photographer, and birder and this evening promises to be enjoyable! All welcome, no charge. On Saturday October 19, 2013, Tom will conduct: "Identifying and Learning Warbler Vocalizations" workshop. The fee for the workshop is $20. To reserve your spot, mail your check or money order to: Los Angeles Audubon—Workshop, Attn: Susan Castor, PO Box 411301, Los Angeles CA 90041, payable to Los Angeles Audubon Society. Los Angeles Audubon Society will have Tom's book for sale at both events. For more information, please see: http://losangelesaudubon.org/ Good Birding! Mary Freeman Glendale, CA Los Angeles Audubon Society Programs Chair and Fiedltrip Leader [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Unsubscribe: mailto:CALBIRDS-unsubscribe AT yahoogroups.com Website: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CALBIRDS Listowners: mailto:CALBIRDS-owner AT yahoogroups.com For vacation suspension of mail go to the website. Click on Edit My Membership and set your mail option to No Email. Or, send a blank email to these addresses: Turn off email delivery: mailto:CALBIRDS-nomail AT yahoogroups.com Resume email delivery: mailto:CALBIRDS-normal AT yahoogroups.com Subject: First California Least Tern nesting record in Malibu Lagoon since 1940! From: "royalcinclodes" <garrygeorge AT pacbell.net> Date: Wed, 05 Jun 2013 17:13:40 -0000 Dan Cooper found 58 CA Least Terns and then LA Audubon biologist Tom Ryan discovered 7 one-egg nests yesterday within the symbolic fenced area that LA Audubon has erected for Snowy Plovers in partnership with the SHARE OUR SEAS & SHORES conservation priority program of Audubon and California State Parks. This is the first nesting record for California Least Tern in Malibu Lagoon since 1940. LA Audubon, California State Parks, California Department of Fish & Wildlife and others are working now to protect the nesting site from disturbance from beachgoers, dogs, predators and other potential impacts. Very exciting news! Please don't disturb the birds. Garry George Conservation Chair Los Angeles Audubon ------------------------------------ Unsubscribe: mailto:CALBIRDS-unsubscribe AT yahoogroups.com Website: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CALBIRDS Listowners: mailto:CALBIRDS-owner AT yahoogroups.com For vacation suspension of mail go to the website. Click on Edit My Membership and set your mail option to No Email. Or, send a blank email to these addresses: Turn off email delivery: mailto:CALBIRDS-nomail AT yahoogroups.com Resume email delivery: mailto:CALBIRDS-normal AT yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: GrayJays in Northern California along 5 Freeway From: "Bruce E. Webb" <BruWebb AT surewest.net> Date: Wed, 05 Jun 2013 04:33:09 -0700 I have seen Gray Jays several times at the main Mt. Shasta trailhead parking area where day hikers park. You will find many vehicles there and a restroom facility, so it is not confusing knowing you are at the right place. Off I-5, there are several exits for the town of Mt. Shasta. But in the main part of the town find the one road up to the top. Take it the several miles to this parking area.  The jays do not seem to be peanut eaters like other places so a spotting scope might be useful. Bruce Webb Granite Bay, Californiajohn small wrote:Good Afternoon CalBirders, I have a request. Tomorrow( Wed.6-5-13), I will be heading to Oregon. I will be traveling along the 5 Freeway. I hope to pick up a Gray Jay as a life bird. Do any Calbirders who live along that area especially in the Mt. Shasta area. Any assisstance will be deeply appreciated.   Thank You Sincerely John Small Torrance, C.A.  [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Unsubscribe: mailto:CALBIRDS-unsubscribe AT yahoogroups.com Website: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CALBIRDS Listowners: mailto:CALBIRDS-owner AT yahoogroups.com For vacation suspension of mail go to the website. Click on Edit My Membership and set your mail option to No Email. Or, send a blank email to these addresses: Turn off email delivery: mailto:CALBIRDS-nomail AT yahoogroups.com Resume email delivery: mailto:CALBIRDS-normal AT yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: Arctic Loon From: John Top <jjtop AT fastmail.us> Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2013 21:38:25 -0700 I had good looks at the Arctic Loon this evening from 17:10 to 17:30 off the point near the sailboat launch ramp on the West side of the Reaervoir AT Frank G. Bonelli Regional Park. He was just out of range to get a good photo -- John ------------------------------------ Unsubscribe: mailto:CALBIRDS-unsubscribe AT yahoogroups.com Website: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CALBIRDS Listowners: mailto:CALBIRDS-owner AT yahoogroups.com For vacation suspension of mail go to the website. Click on Edit My Membership and set your mail option to No Email. Or, send a blank email to these addresses: Turn off email delivery: mailto:CALBIRDS-nomail AT yahoogroups.com Resume email delivery: mailto:CALBIRDS-normal AT yahoogroups.com Subject: GrayJays in Northern California along 5 Freeway From: john small <joutandabout AT yahoo.com> Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2013 17:03:47 -0700 (PDT) Good Afternoon CalBirders, I have a request. Tomorrow( Wed.6-5-13), I will be heading to Oregon. I will be traveling along the 5 Freeway. I hope to pick up a Gray Jay as a life bird. Do any Calbirders who live along that area especially in the Mt. Shasta area. Any assisstance will be deeply appreciated.   Thank You Sincerely John Small Torrance, C.A.  [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Unsubscribe: mailto:CALBIRDS-unsubscribe AT yahoogroups.com Website: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CALBIRDS Listowners: mailto:CALBIRDS-owner AT yahoogroups.com For vacation suspension of mail go to the website. Click on Edit My Membership and set your mail option to No Email. Or, send a blank email to these addresses: Turn off email delivery: mailto:CALBIRDS-nomail AT yahoogroups.com Resume email delivery: mailto:CALBIRDS-normal AT yahoogroups.com Subject: Fwd: [SFBirds] Alder Flycatcher From: Matt Brady <podoces AT yahoo.com> Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2013 15:39:09 -0700 (PDT) Hello all. Brian Fitch reported a singing, calling ALDER FLYCATCHER in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco this morning. I figured a potential seventh state record would be of interest to the California birding community at large, despite of the lack of follow-up reports so far. For those of you unfamiliar with the area, Bercut Equitation Field is in the southwest portion of Golden Gate Park, relatively easily accessed from Lincoln Blvd. Lat/Long is 37.766462, 122.501293. Simply paste that into Google Maps, and you should find the right spot. Good birding, Matt Brady Baton Rouge, LA --- In SFBirds AT yahoogroups.com, Brian Fitch wrote: > > I've just seen and heard an Alder Flycatcher in GG Park at the NW side of > Bercut. >  > It was singing "ree-beu!" and giving a "pip" call repeatedly at 10:15, and > eventually I spotted it near where Dom had the B&W.  It then flew up into > the pines and chased a Pac-slope, while still singing.  A large empid with > long broad, pale bottomed bill, two wing bars...I hope someone else can get > out there and refind this bird, as I'm off to work. >  > Brian Fitch >  >  > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Unsubscribe: mailto:CALBIRDS-unsubscribe AT yahoogroups.com Website: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CALBIRDS Listowners: mailto:CALBIRDS-owner AT yahoogroups.com For vacation suspension of mail go to the website. Click on Edit My Membership and set your mail option to No Email. Or, send a blank email to these addresses: Turn off email delivery: mailto:CALBIRDS-nomail AT yahoogroups.com Resume email delivery: mailto:CALBIRDS-normal AT yahoogroups.com Subject: Arctic Loon From: "peterginsburg" <pagins AT hotmail.com> Date: Tue, 04 Jun 2013 18:25:25 -0000 Still present this morning (0700-0900, 4 June) at Frank G. Bonelli Regional Park. Although not terribly close, it was easily seen from the Swim Beach area. Peter ------------------------------------ Unsubscribe: mailto:CALBIRDS-unsubscribe AT yahoogroups.com Website: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CALBIRDS Listowners: mailto:CALBIRDS-owner AT yahoogroups.com For vacation suspension of mail go to the website. Click on Edit My Membership and set your mail option to No Email. Or, send a blank email to these addresses: Turn off email delivery: mailto:CALBIRDS-nomail AT yahoogroups.com Resume email delivery: mailto:CALBIRDS-normal AT yahoogroups.com Subject: "Lazigo" Bunting Arcata Marsh 3 June From: Rob Fowler <migratoriusfwlr AT gmail.com> Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2013 15:01:12 -0700 Hi all, Today I went out to look for "eastern" vagrants today and could only come up with 1/2 an eastern vagrant, a LAZULI X INDIGO BUNTING. The bird was singing regularly on the east side of the log pond at the Arcata Marsh just right near the entrance to the interpretive center parking lot. I put a photo of the bird on my website: *http://tinyurl.com/kagh2m9. * I also got some video of the bird singing and it sounded pretty much like a Lazuli. I'll put up the video later. Not much else at the marsh except for a continuing YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT on the southwest corner of Mount Trashmore, just north of Klopp Lake. I stopped at Shay Park for a bit to continue my vagrant search. Best bird there was a whitting WILLOW FLYCATCHER. I also enjoyed watching a female ANNA'S HUMMINGBIRD build a nest on the west side of the westernmost pond and saw what I presume was a female ALLEN'S HUMMINGBIRD gathering nesting material here, which was the first breeding evidence I've seen for this species at Shay. I don't know why but this is like the 6th or 7th Anna's Hummer nest I've seen at the park. ** -- Rob Fowler McKinleyville, CA Subject: Arctic Loon From: "Gary G" <ggrantham AT san.rr.com> Date: Mon, 03 Jun 2013 18:46:36 -0000 I saw the Arctic Loon at the Frank G. Bonelli Regional Park in San Dimas, CA this morning between 0850 and 0930. Although, it was visible with a scope from just north of Swim Beach, closer looks were from across the reservoir near the East Shore parking area. Gary Grantham San Diego ------------------------------------ Unsubscribe: mailto:CALBIRDS-unsubscribe AT yahoogroups.com Website: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CALBIRDS Listowners: mailto:CALBIRDS-owner AT yahoogroups.com For vacation suspension of mail go to the website. Click on Edit My Membership and set your mail option to No Email. Or, send a blank email to these addresses: Turn off email delivery: mailto:CALBIRDS-nomail AT yahoogroups.com Resume email delivery: mailto:CALBIRDS-normal AT yahoogroups.com Subject: June-July RRAS field trips From: Rob Fowler <migratoriusfwlr AT gmail.com> Date: Sun, 2 Jun 2013 20:51:11 -0700 Hi all, Below is the Redwood Region Audubon Society Field Trips for June-July 2013. Hope to see you out on some of our field trips this time around! Please note that we are scheduling two multi-day trips out of the local area in July. *Every Saturday: Arcata Marsh and Wildlife Sanctuary.* These are our famous rain-or-shine, docent-led field trips at the Marsh. Bring your binocular(s) and have a great morning birding! Meet in the parking lot at the end of South I Street (Klopp Lake) in Arcata at 8:30 a.m. Trips end around 11 a.m. June leaders: 1st, Joe Ceriani; 8th, Jude Power 15th, Ralph Bucher; 22nd, Pat Bitton; 29th, Tony Kurz *Saturday, June 8:* *Horse Mountain.* We will be birding high elevation Humboldt County from Horse Mtn. to Grouse Mtn. on Forest Service Route 1. Target species will include, Mountain Quail, Sooty Grouse, Northern Pygmy-Owl, White-headed Woodpecker, Dusky Flycatcher, Townsend's Solitaire, Green-tailed Towhee and more. Maybe we’ll even luck into a Northern Goshawk! Meet at 7:00 a.m. near Espresso 101 off of Giuntoli. Rob Fowler will lead (707-616-9841; migratoriusfwlr AT gmail.com). Bring a lunch to enjoy after the trip. * **Sunday, June 9: Humboldt Bay National Wildlife Refuge.* This is a wonderful, two-to-three hour trip for people wanting to learn the birds of the Humboldt Bay area. It takes a leisurely pace with emphasis on enjoying the birds! Beginners are more than welcome. Meet at the Refuge Visitor Center at 9:00 a.m. Call Jude Power or David Fix (707-822-3613) for more information. *Saturday, June 15: eBird Site Survey–Shay Park.* Join Rob Fowler (707-616-9841) as we survey the extent of Shay Park in Arcata for 1-3 hours and count every species present. For more info on the ebird site survey visit this link at ebird.org: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/about/eBird_Site_Survey. Meet at 8:00 am at the Shay Park parking lot that is located at the eastern end of Foster Avenue. Waterproof shoes are recommended as we typically walk through a grassy field off-trail. *Sunday, June 16:* *Southern Humboldt Community Park.* Jay Sooter (707-444-8001), and/or John Gaffin will be leading this monthly walk. All ages and experience levels are encouraged to participate and revel in the beauty of the park and its avian inhabitants on this easy, two- to three-hour walk. Binoculars are not provided and dogs are not allowed; field guides are usually available but please provide your own if possible. Steady rain cancels. Meet at *8:00 AM*, parking by the kiosk near the farmhouse in the main entrance. *Sunday, June 16*: *Hikshari Trail, Eureka* *Due to safety concerns the Palco Marsh Walk that happened every 3rd Sunday of the month is changing locations for the time being*. Meet at 9:00AM* at the Foot of Del Norte St. Eureka where we will scope birds off of the public dock here until everyone assembles. We will then drive to the base of the Hikshari Trail at Truesdale Street and bird along the trail to the Elk River Wildlife Area. *Leader: Ralph Bucher (707- 499-1247; thebook AT reninet.com). *Please note the Malheur NWR/Steens Mountain trip was originally scheduled for 12-16 July (as it appears in the Sandpiper) but there was a scheduling conflict that the leader did not realize at the time so it is rescheduled for the following week for the dates specified below. * *Friday-Tuesday 19-23 July*: *Malheur NWR/Steens Mountain:* We will target the Steens Mt. area specialties: Black Rosy-Finch, Chukar, and Sage Grouse. Malheur National Wildlife Refuge has nesting Franklin’s Gull, Eastern Kingbird, and Bobolink. Plan to carpool from Arcata to Cedar Pass area between Alturas and Cedarville and camp at Stough Reservoir Campground (fee) near Cedar Pass (Modoc County birds). There are grocery stores in Alturas and a motel in Cedarville. We will drive north stopping along Goose Lake and New Pine Creek to check for nesting birds. After we get onto Hwy 140, we will continue to Fields, Oregon for lunch (huge milkshakes and delicious hamburgers) and a visit to the oasis. We will drive the Steens Mt. loop from the west side (high-clearance vehicle), stopping near the top to check snow fields for the rosy-finch. We will camp at Page Springs Campground (fee) for 2 nights and will make a strong effort to see the rosyfinches. Thereafter, we will bird the refuge, and the group will decide on options for birding in the area. For most of this area no food or services are available so please be prepared. Check the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge website: http://www.fws.gov/Malheur. Contact leader Rob Fowler (707) 616-9841 for more details. This trip was last run in 2009 and this year there will be an extra day to allow a more relaxed pace. *Sunday, July 14: Humboldt Bay National Wildlife Refuge.* See June 9. *Sunday, July 21:* *Southern Humboldt Community Park.* See June 16. *Sunday, July 21*: *Hikshari Trail, Eureka. *See June 16. *Friday**-Sunday, July 26-28: **Lassen Volcanic National Park.* Wintu Audubon Society (Shasta County) will host this trip in search of montane species such as Black-backed Woodpecker, Clark’s Nutcracker, Mountain Bluebird, and Townsend’s Solitaire amid spectacular scenery. Altacal Audubon Society (Chico) will occupy the adjoining site, providing an excellent opportunity for northern California Audubon interaction. Meet Friday afternoon at Site 2 in Lost Creek Group Camp, about 4 miles inside the park’s west entrance ($10/vehicle entry fee). We will spend late afternoon/evening and the following day (trip to Manzanita Lake, starting at campground at 8:30 a.m. Saturday) birding the park with our hosts, who know it well. The trip will end around noon on Sunday; there may be an optional detour to McCumber Reservoir on the way back. Tent camping space for up to 25 is provided Friday and Saturday nights by Wintu (water and pit toilets); there is extremely limited space for pickup campers but no fifth wheels or large motorhomes. Bring food and insect repellent. Please inform Bill Oliver of Wintu (530-941-7741; wwoliver9 AT gmail.com) that you will be attending. *Saturday, July 27: eBird Site Survey–Shay Park.* -- Rob Fowler RRAS Field Trip Coordinator Subject: Pelagic Cruise off no. Humboldt and Del Norte Counties From: Barbara Carlson <barbarac2003 AT yahoo.com> Date: Sun, 2 Jun 2013 15:03:33 -0700 (PDT) On the morning of May 31st, Paul Lehman, while on a cruise ship from San Francisco to SE Alaska, passed through the waters of northern Humboldt and Del Norte Counties. The ship was well offshore (well beyond the shell edge) between 50-80 miles out where there is not a large diversity of species.  By far the dominant species is Leach's Storm-Petrel. Highlights were one Murphy's Petrel and one Laysan Albatross in no. Humboldt County and another Laysan Albatross in Del Norte County. Later that day, he saw seven (7) Murphy's Petrel in Oregon waters, many with close views.  He has continued into SE Alaska waters from there. Reporting for Paul Lehman, Barbara Carlson San Diego [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Unsubscribe: mailto:CALBIRDS-unsubscribe AT yahoogroups.com Website: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CALBIRDS Listowners: mailto:CALBIRDS-owner AT yahoogroups.com For vacation suspension of mail go to the website. Click on Edit My Membership and set your mail option to No Email. Or, send a blank email to these addresses: Turn off email delivery: mailto:CALBIRDS-nomail AT yahoogroups.com Resume email delivery: mailto:CALBIRDS-normal AT yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: Whip poor will of Freedom From: Dave Weber <dwbirdster AT sbcglobal.net> Date: Sat, 01 Jun 2013 23:28:47 -0700 Bird was generally calling downslope of the clearing with the tractor. It made two passes over the clearing. Not as good as being zapped between the eyes, but it will suffice. Don't ask. Dave Weber, Milpitas by phone Dave Weber wrote: >Eastern whippoorwill on ranch in Aptos, near Freedom, sounded off 8:32pm June 1. Seen spot lighted in flight 9pm. In clearing near tractor > >Dave Weber, >Milpitas >by phone ------------------------------------ Unsubscribe: mailto:CALBIRDS-unsubscribe AT yahoogroups.com Website: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CALBIRDS Listowners: mailto:CALBIRDS-owner AT yahoogroups.com For vacation suspension of mail go to the website. Click on Edit My Membership and set your mail option to No Email. Or, send a blank email to these addresses: Turn off email delivery: mailto:CALBIRDS-nomail AT yahoogroups.com Resume email delivery: mailto:CALBIRDS-normal AT yahoogroups.com Subject: Whip poor will of Freedom From: Dave Weber <dwbirdster AT sbcglobal.net> Date: Sat, 01 Jun 2013 21:44:19 -0700 Eastern whippoorwill on ranch in Aptos, near Freedom, sounded off 8:32pm June 1. Seen spot lighted in flight 9pm. In clearing near tractor Dave Weber, Milpitas by phone ------------------------------------ Unsubscribe: mailto:CALBIRDS-unsubscribe AT yahoogroups.com Website: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CALBIRDS Listowners: mailto:CALBIRDS-owner AT yahoogroups.com For vacation suspension of mail go to the website. Click on Edit My Membership and set your mail option to No Email. Or, send a blank email to these addresses: Turn off email delivery: mailto:CALBIRDS-nomail AT yahoogroups.com Resume email delivery: mailto:CALBIRDS-normal AT yahoogroups.com Subject: North American Birds (S. California Region) - Reports for Spring 2013 From: "Guy McCaskie" <guymcc AT pacbell.net> Date: Sat, 1 Jun 2013 15:52:22 -0700 County Coordinators/Contributors: The Spring Season (1 March through 31 May 2013) 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 (7th edition of the ABA Checklist, 2009). Reports of species included on the California Bird Records Committee (CBRC) review list (Field List of California Birds 2009, obtainable through Western Field Ornithologists at 1359 Solano Drive, Pacifica, CA 94044 http://www.westernfieldornithologists.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 19 June 2013. 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 Chet McGaugh (Riverside County) chetmcgaugh AT earthlink.net Kelli Heindel-Levinson 1819 Locust Ravine Bakersfield, Ca 93306 KKHeindel AT gmail.com Tom and Jo Heindel (Inyo County) PO Box 400 Big Pine, CA 93513 tjheindel AT aol.com Adam Searcy (Ventura County) 2420 Balmoral Ct. Camarillo, CA 93010 serpophaga AT gmail.com Alexander E. Koonce (San Bernardino County) 1357 Paige Lane Redlands, CA 92373-6878 sandy_koonce AT redlands.edu Guy McCaskie (San Diego and 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 We thank you in advance for your time and effort. Guy McCaskie and Kimball L. Garrett [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Unsubscribe: mailto:CALBIRDS-unsubscribe AT yahoogroups.com Website: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CALBIRDS Listowners: mailto:CALBIRDS-owner AT yahoogroups.com For vacation suspension of mail go to the website. Click on Edit My Membership and set your mail option to No Email. Or, send a blank email to these addresses: Turn off email delivery: mailto:CALBIRDS-nomail AT yahoogroups.com Resume email delivery: mailto:CALBIRDS-normal AT yahoogroups.com Subject: North American Birds (S. California Region) - Reports for Spring 2013 From: "Guy McCaskie" <guymcc AT pacbell.net> Date: Sat, 1 Jun 2013 15:52:22 -0700 County Coordinators/Contributors: The Spring Season (1 March through 31 May 2013) 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 (7th edition of the ABA Checklist, 2009). Reports of species included on the California Bird Records Committee (CBRC) review list (Field List of California Birds 2009, obtainable through Western Field Ornithologists at 1359 Solano Drive, Pacifica, CA 94044 http://www.westernfieldornithologists.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 19 June 2013. 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 Chet McGaugh (Riverside County) chetmcgaugh AT earthlink.net Kelli Heindel-Levinson 1819 Locust Ravine Bakersfield, Ca 93306 KKHeindel AT gmail.com Tom and Jo Heindel (Inyo County) PO Box 400 Big Pine, CA 93513 tjheindel AT aol.com Adam Searcy (Ventura County) 2420 Balmoral Ct. Camarillo, CA 93010 serpophaga AT gmail.com Alexander E. Koonce (San Bernardino County) 1357 Paige Lane Redlands, CA 92373-6878 sandy_koonce AT redlands.edu Guy McCaskie (San Diego and 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 We thank you in advance for your time and effort. Guy McCaskie and Kimball L. Garrett [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ To Post a message, send it to: inlandcountybirds AT eGroups.com To Unsubscribe, send a blank message to: inlandcountybirds-unsubscribe AT eGroups.com Subject: North American Birds (S. California Region) - Reports for Spring 2013 From: "Guy McCaskie" <guymcc AT pacbell.net> Date: Sat, 1 Jun 2013 15:52:22 -0700 County Coordinators/Contributors: The Spring Season (1 March through 31 May 2013) 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 (7th edition of the ABA Checklist, 2009). Reports of species included on the California Bird Records Committee (CBRC) review list (Field List of California Birds 2009, obtainable through Western Field Ornithologists at 1359 Solano Drive, Pacifica, CA 94044 http://www.westernfieldornithologists.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 19 June 2013. 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 Chet McGaugh (Riverside County) chetmcgaugh AT earthlink.net Kelli Heindel-Levinson 1819 Locust Ravine Bakersfield, Ca 93306 KKHeindel AT gmail.com Tom and Jo Heindel (Inyo County) PO Box 400 Big Pine, CA 93513 tjheindel AT aol.com Adam Searcy (Ventura County) 2420 Balmoral Ct. Camarillo, CA 93010 serpophaga AT gmail.com Alexander E. Koonce (San Bernardino County) 1357 Paige Lane Redlands, CA 92373-6878 sandy_koonce AT redlands.edu Guy McCaskie (San Diego and 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 We thank you in advance for your time and effort. Guy McCaskie and Kimball L. Garrett [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Subject: Kern desert highlights May 29-30 From: Steven Tucker <talkingtrees80 AT yahoo.com> Date: Thu, 30 May 2013 20:43:36 -0700 (PDT) A request was made to post this to Calbirds, so here we go. I'm not subscribed to the Kern list, so anyone inclined to forward this message is welcome to do so. I spent yesterday afternoon and most of today (May 29-30) birding the Kern migrant traps with Dan Maxwell, Samantha Marois, Amy Patten, Ryan/Scott/Linda Terrill, Tristan McKee, and Jessica Oswald. Collective highlights our group had were Magnolia and Tennessee Warblers, American Redstart, Summer Tanager (eastern), Indigo Bunting (all at Butterbredt Spring), 2 Ovenbirds, Northern Waterthrush, Indigo Bunting, Rose-breasted and Evening Grosbeaks (all at Galileo Hill), and Northern Parula at California City Central Park. The Terrill crew had another Indigo at Cerro Coso Community College in Ridgecrest this afternoon. The Magnolia (a male) was probably the best find of this bunch...it was seen briefly early this morning at Butterbredt by Ryan Terrill and could not be relocated. I assume it kept going north. Good luck out there, Steve Tucker Santa Cruz Island/Ventura, CA [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Unsubscribe: mailto:CALBIRDS-unsubscribe AT yahoogroups.com Website: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CALBIRDS Listowners: mailto:CALBIRDS-owner AT yahoogroups.com For vacation suspension of mail go to the website. Click on Edit My Membership and set your mail option to No Email. Or, send a blank email to these addresses: Turn off email delivery: mailto:CALBIRDS-nomail AT yahoogroups.com Resume email delivery: mailto:CALBIRDS-normal AT yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [CALBIRDS] Continuing Eastern Whippoorwill From: Joseph Morlan <jmorlan AT gmail.com> Date: Thu, 30 May 2013 15:08:58 -0700 I posted a preliminary page on this bird with some additional voice recordings and sonograms at.. http://fog.ccsf.edu/~jmorlan/EasternWhip-poor-will.htm On Wed, 29 May 2013 22:28:38 -0700, "Koonce, Sandy" wrote: >The EASTERN WHIPPOORWILL in Aptos continued this evening (May 29), starting to call at 8:30 and continuing vigorously and with only brief pauses until at least 9:30 when I left. > >Pretty decent views were had when it landed on the exhaust pipe of the tractor in the meadow while there was still some light (Patti can give you directions). > >Sandy > >Sandy Koonce >Department of Mathematics >University of Redlands, Redlands CA > -- Joseph Morlan, Pacifica, CA "It turns out we're very good at not seeing things" - Jack Hitt _______________________________________________ mbb mailing list mbb AT lists.pbsci.ucsc.edu http://lists.pbsci.ucsc.edu/mailman/listinfo/mbb Subject: Re: Continuing Eastern Whippoorwill From: Joseph Morlan <jmorlan AT gmail.com> Date: Thu, 30 May 2013 15:08:58 -0700 I posted a preliminary page on this bird with some additional voice recordings and sonograms at.. http://fog.ccsf.edu/~jmorlan/EasternWhip-poor-will.htm On Wed, 29 May 2013 22:28:38 -0700, "Koonce, Sandy" wrote: >The EASTERN WHIPPOORWILL in Aptos continued this evening (May 29), starting to call at 8:30 and continuing vigorously and with only brief pauses until at least 9:30 when I left. > >Pretty decent views were had when it landed on the exhaust pipe of the tractor in the meadow while there was still some light (Patti can give you directions). > >Sandy > >Sandy Koonce >Department of Mathematics >University of Redlands, Redlands CA > -- Joseph Morlan, Pacifica, CA "It turns out we're very good at not seeing things" - Jack Hitt ------------------------------------ Unsubscribe: mailto:CALBIRDS-unsubscribe AT yahoogroups.com Website: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CALBIRDS Listowners: mailto:CALBIRDS-owner AT yahoogroups.com For vacation suspension of mail go to the website. Click on Edit My Membership and set your mail option to No Email. Or, send a blank email to these addresses: Turn off email delivery: mailto:CALBIRDS-nomail AT yahoogroups.com Resume email delivery: mailto:CALBIRDS-normal AT yahoogroups.com Subject: Varied Buntings at Oasis Ranch From: "Peter" <peter_colasanti AT yahoo.com> Date: Thu, 30 May 2013 17:05:39 -0000 Concerning Varied Buntings at Oasis Ranch, Mono, 10:50 AM, May 28. Hi Folks, Kristie Nelson and John Sterling have both contacted me and expressed surprise over the sighting and John asked me if it's real. It's quite real. I read that Todd Easterla was out looking for the birds; bless his heart. I'm not someone who has spent a lot of time looking for Mexican birds in the southern US, but I have spent many months looking for them in Mexico, mostly by driving around remote areas in pickup trucks. My AviSys file shows 12 records for Varied Bunting from 1980 to 2010 in 7 states, all have been submitted to eBird, only 2 of those in the east, so most of my experience has been with the western subspecies dickeyae/pulchra. In that experience, I've found them to be shy, secretive and averse to human habitations. I've mostly found them in very small flocks (family groups?) on the ground near cover. Indigo Bunting I've found to occur much more commonly and in generally larger flocks, sometimes with other species, throughout southern Mexico and Central America and they are much more confiding. (I saw my first CA INBU at Cottonwood Canyon, INY 5/29/77 and almost expect them in late spring in the desert.) The female western Varied Buntings are dull little birds indeed, the ultimate Little Brown Jobs and would be an outrageous call anywhere outside of their normal range unless they're accompanied by a colorful male. They're richer brown than the eastern ones, which is the one Sibley illustrates. I recommend Howell and Webb's ...Mexico... tome for a picture of her. Surprise. I am someone who spends an unusual amount of time alone and am well adjusted to it, without inclination to talk to myself. I was birding solo when the male VABU hopped into my bins view. My response was clearly audible and obscene, "What the * is that?!" It had perched with it's back to me, perhaps 10 degrees facing right of dead away, and the salient feature was the red "nape", actually a patch over the hindneck and up onto the hindcrown. Varied Buntings have what one might call reverse fugitive colors, they reveal themselves only if you can look at them for a few seconds. Watching the bird wait it's turn in the shade at the birdbath I could see that the red (not fire engine red, but stronger than rufous) was completely bounded by blue a bit deeper and not as bright as Indigo Bunting blue, which extended over the face and existed over the bottom of the neck. The wings were quite dark, appearing black and without wingbars. The bill was not the sharp wedge one sees on LAzBU and INBU, but rounded, with a curved culmen, more like Painted but stubbier, imparting a different and puny aspect to the face. The rest of the plumage didn't reveal it's color to me, but appeared dark and fairly uniform. As it got ready to go for its dip, it shuffled its wings, which had been covering it's back and rump, and revealed that the rump was blue, and a lighter and brighter blue than the color on the crown and face. I may have seen the same bird flyby about an hour earlier and thought it was possibly an Indigo Bunting, but it didn't look blue enough and there was something wrong about it structurally for INBU, and so I hadn't even included it in my field notes at the time. The wings on VABU are shorter and rounder than INBU. After the VABU male dropped down and out of sight to bathe, another little bunting of similar size and structure, appearing to be a fairly rich and uniform brown overall, appeared to the right of the bathing area. She had the same rounded bill. I hung around for over a half hour with my camera at the ready, a Cannon SX40. Given the likelyhood that that particular camera would take an acceptable picture of this particular bird, I thought it better to take steps to get others to observe and document it. I've seen all North American buntings save Rosita's/Rose-bellied and was aware that Painted is CBRC reviewable and that Varied is worse, so I headed over to Deep Springs to see if anybody was around. Nadie. After a stop in the White Mountains, I proceeded to Big Pine, found the library, told the librarian that I had a bird watching emergency and needed to use a computer and posted the sighting to County Birds. My internet access is negligible, especially over the weekends. If you have any questions, better to call me at home. 707 763-2450 Peter Colasanti Petaluma ------------------------------------ Unsubscribe: mailto:CALBIRDS-unsubscribe AT yahoogroups.com Website: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CALBIRDS Listowners: mailto:CALBIRDS-owner AT yahoogroups.com For vacation suspension of mail go to the website. Click on Edit My Membership and set your mail option to No Email. Or, send a blank email to these addresses: Turn off email delivery: mailto:CALBIRDS-nomail AT yahoogroups.com Resume email delivery: mailto:CALBIRDS-normal AT yahoogroups.com Subject: Continuing Eastern Whippoorwill From: "Koonce, Sandy" <sandy_koonce AT redlands.edu> Date: Wed, 29 May 2013 22:28:38 -0700 The EASTERN WHIPPOORWILL in Aptos continued this evening (May 29), starting to call at 8:30 and continuing vigorously and with only brief pauses until at least 9:30 when I left. Pretty decent views were had when it landed on the exhaust pipe of the tractor in the meadow while there was still some light (Patti can give you directions). Sandy Sandy Koonce Department of Mathematics University of Redlands, Redlands CA ------------------------------------ Unsubscribe: mailto:CALBIRDS-unsubscribe AT yahoogroups.com Website: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CALBIRDS Listowners: mailto:CALBIRDS-owner AT yahoogroups.com For vacation suspension of mail go to the website. Click on Edit My Membership and set your mail option to No Email. Or, send a blank email to these addresses: Turn off email delivery: mailto:CALBIRDS-nomail AT yahoogroups.com Resume email delivery: mailto:CALBIRDS-normal AT yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: Eastern Whip-poor-will access update 5/27 From: "Michael Feighner" <feinerVogel94551 AT comcast.net> Date: Wed, 29 May 2013 10:33:25 -0700 As a repetitive of the "silent majority" I report the answer is "yes". The bird began calling at exactly 8:30 PM, flew around quickly over our heads at 8:45 PM, and was still calling when I left. Winston Churchill: "There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction." -- Michael Feighner Livermore, CA, Alameda County btn_myprofile_160x33 http://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelfeighner -----Original Message----- From: mbb-bounces AT acg.ucsc.edu [mailto:mbb-bounces AT acg.ucsc.edu] On Behalf Of Joseph Morlan Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2013 10:18 AM To: David Suddjian Cc: County Birders; Calbirds; mbb AT biology.ucsc.edu Subject: [MBB] Re: [CB] Eastern Whip-poor-will access update 5/27 On Mon, 27 May 2013 17:57:36 -0700, David Suddjian < dsuddjian AT gmail.com> wrote: >They are able to host birders on these evenings: >May 27, 28, 29 and 30, and June 1 and 2 *Please be advised that they >are** not available to host birders on May 31st >* >Opportunities after June 3 will be determined later. Was it seen or heard the evening of May 28th? -- Joseph Morlan, Pacifica, CA "It turns out we're very good at not seeing things" - Jack Hitt _______________________________________________ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Unsubscribe: mailto:CALBIRDS-unsubscribe AT yahoogroups.com Website: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CALBIRDS Listowners: mailto:CALBIRDS-owner AT yahoogroups.com For vacation suspension of mail go to the website. Click on Edit My Membership and set your mail option to No Email. Or, send a blank email to these addresses: Turn off email delivery: mailto:CALBIRDS-nomail AT yahoogroups.com Resume email delivery: mailto:CALBIRDS-normal AT yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: Eastern Whip-poor-will access update 5/27 From: "Michael Feighner" <feinerVogel94551 AT comcast.net> Date: Wed, 29 May 2013 10:33:25 -0700 As a repetitive of the "silent majority" I report the answer is "yes". The bird began calling at exactly 8:30 PM, flew around quickly over our heads at 8:45 PM, and was still calling when I left. Winston Churchill: "There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction." -- Michael Feighner Livermore, CA, Alameda County btn_myprofile_160x33 http://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelfeighner -----Original Message----- From: mbb-bounces AT acg.ucsc.edu [mailto:mbb-bounces AT acg.ucsc.edu] On Behalf Of Joseph Morlan Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2013 10:18 AM To: David Suddjian Cc: County Birders; Calbirds; mbb AT biology.ucsc.edu Subject: [MBB] Re: [CB] Eastern Whip-poor-will access update 5/27 On Mon, 27 May 2013 17:57:36 -0700, David Suddjian < dsuddjian AT gmail.com> wrote: >They are able to host birders on these evenings: >May 27, 28, 29 and 30, and June 1 and 2 *Please be advised that they >are** not available to host birders on May 31st >* >Opportunities after June 3 will be determined later. Was it seen or heard the evening of May 28th? -- Joseph Morlan, Pacifica, CA "It turns out we're very good at not seeing things" - Jack Hitt _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ mbb mailing list mbb AT lists.pbsci.ucsc.edu http://lists.pbsci.ucsc.edu/mailman/listinfo/mbb Subject: Re: [CB] Eastern Whip-poor-will access update 5/27 From: Joseph Morlan <jmorlan AT gmail.com> Date: Wed, 29 May 2013 10:18:10 -0700 On Mon, 27 May 2013 17:57:36 -0700, David Suddjian wrote: >They are able to host birders on these evenings: >May 27, 28, 29 and 30, and June 1 and 2 >*Please be advised that they are** not available to host birders on May 31st >* >Opportunities after June 3 will be determined later. Was it seen or heard the evening of May 28th? -- Joseph Morlan, Pacifica, CA "It turns out we're very good at not seeing things" - Jack Hitt _______________________________________________ mbb mailing list mbb AT lists.pbsci.ucsc.edu http://lists.pbsci.ucsc.edu/mailman/listinfo/mbb Subject: Giant Sequoia National Monument Owling Trip From: Bob Barnes <bbarnes AT lightspeed.net> Date: Wed, 29 May 2013 07:36:05 -0700 4 of July Long Weekend Giant Sequoia National Monument, Tulare County Owling Trip A great trip for owl lovers, life listers, year listers, county listers, and montane birding lovers. Get out of early July lowland heat and go birding where temperatures are pleasant each day. Daytime birding is great, too (e.g.: Quaking Aspen Meadow part of the Southern Sierra Meadows Important Bird Area plus other IBA meadows in the Giant Sequoia National Monument). Three to four trip spots left. $100.00 includes three nights lodging. Such a deal! Sponsored by Los Angeles Audubon Society. Read on! "Leaders:Mary and Nick Freeman. Ponderosa is above Porterville in the southwest Sierra Nevada of Tulare County. Owling by night, bird walks by day! Must be a night owl. We usually see (yes, see) Flammulated, Saw-whet, and Spotted owls. Days wandering in the Sequoias are delightful. We have arranged for a large cabin; our first dinner will be potluck, others provided or eat out. Meet Thursday the July 4th 3:00 p.m. at the cabin (directions provided in confirmation flyer), finally leaving the mountains late Sunday morning. Complete details in the flyer we send to confirm your reservation. TO RESERVE: Mail $100 check (for cabin), and provide e-mail address and phone numbers for each participant. MAIL TO: Los Angeles Audubon - Field Trips, Attn: Susan Castor, PO Box 411301, Los Angeles CA 90041. 10 sign-ups max. This trip is bargain priced, so please reserve early! No small children or pets, please." Serving as the Messenger, Bob Barnes, Ridgecrest, Kern County, California Cell: 760-382-1260 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Unsubscribe: mailto:CALBIRDS-unsubscribe AT yahoogroups.com Website: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CALBIRDS Listowners: mailto:CALBIRDS-owner AT yahoogroups.com For vacation suspension of mail go to the website. Click on Edit My Membership and set your mail option to No Email. Or, send a blank email to these addresses: Turn off email delivery: mailto:CALBIRDS-nomail AT yahoogroups.com Resume email delivery: mailto:CALBIRDS-normal AT yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [MBB] Whip-poor-will right on schedule From: Bruce Mast <cathrasher4 AT gmail.com> Date: Wed, 29 May 2013 06:52:18 -0700 An unedited sound recording of the Whip-Poor-Will from Monday, 5/27, is now available online at www.xeno-canto.org/135420 Bruce Mast Oakland From: Bruce Mast [mailto:cathrasher4 AT gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2013 8:52 AM To: Calbirds Cc: Monterey Bay Birdlist Subject: Re: [MBB] Whip-poor-will right on schedule To elaborate on Randy's post, a few of us got eye-popping looks in evening light as well. Soon after the bird started calling, some of us, led by Logan Kahle, walked out the mowed path that contours above the clearing to get a better listen. At one point, the path passes through a grassy opening before plunging into woodland. About 8:45, Logan had traversed the opening and was peering ahead into the woodland while I remained on the other side of the opening. I whispered loudly "turn around!" because the Whip-Poorwill had flown up, started circling the opening, and was hovering mothlike behind Logan's head. The bird was a goatsucker by shape, flight style, and coloration. It was a bit larger than a Common Poorwill, with a longer, spatula-shaped tail that showed large rectangular white corners. It called incessantly, moving up and down the slope. Brian Sullivan and I attempted to get some high quality recordings. Between the footsteps, clothes rustling, barking dogs, and planes, we probably got a few decent clips. Interestingly, we could hear a soft "chip" note introducing the whistled notes. Bruce Mast Oakland On May 27, 2013 11:21 PM, "Randy Wardle" wrote: > > Tonight (Monday evening) there were about 25 of us at the property in Aptos where the eastern WHIP-POOR-WILL remains. It is a beautiful place and I highly recommend going if you are able. Our hostess Patti was very gracious and gave everyone parking and viewing instructions. We all then made our way up the road to wait patiently for our vagrant guest to begin. Everyone was very friendly and had come from all over the Bay area. We all grew quiet about 8:20 pm and right on cue, at 8:27pm, the Whip-poor-will began his calls. He moved invisibly up and down the canyon calling over the next hour until everyone had left. A very cool and surreal experience. If you go, don't forget a flashlight to find your way back down the road! > > Randy Wardle > Aptos > > _______________________________________________ > mbb mailing list > mbb AT lists.pbsci.ucsc.edu > http://lists.pbsci.ucsc.edu/mailman/listinfo/mbb > ------------------------------------ Unsubscribe: mailto:CALBIRDS-unsubscribe AT yahoogroups.com Website: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CALBIRDS Listowners: mailto:CALBIRDS-owner AT yahoogroups.com For vacation suspension of mail go to the website. Click on Edit My Membership and set your mail option to No Email. Or, send a blank email to these addresses: Turn off email delivery: mailto:CALBIRDS-nomail AT yahoogroups.com Resume email delivery: mailto:CALBIRDS-normal AT yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: FWD: Varied Bunting in Oasis From: "Todd Easterla" <teasterla AT comcast.net> Date: Wed, 29 May 2013 02:22:50 -0700 Just got home. Fritz Stuerer and I tried for the Varied Bunting from 6:45PM until dusk with NO luck. We did encounter a first Summer Indigo Bunting and several Lazuli Buntings but that was all in the bunting department. Maybe the bird will be seen in the A.M and someone will be able to get the word out faster this time. Good luck! Todd Easterla Rancho Cordova, Ca. From: CALBIRDS AT yahoogroups.com [mailto:CALBIRDS AT yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of John Sterling Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2013 5:24 PM To: Koonce, Sandy Cc: calbirds AT yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [CALBIRDS] FWD: Varied Bunting in Oasis Todd Easterla and fritz Steurer are heading there now and should get there before dusk. No wind in eastern Mohave today but howling wind in western Mohave. Highlights today were a female orchard oriole at kelso and singing adult male rose breasted grosbeak at chet Huffman park in baker. Also a least tern at zyzzyx. And a zone tailed hawk last night at mid hills campground and a pair today at the intersection of cedar canyon and black canyon roads which is north of the campground and may be a second pair. All with Todd, fritz and my daughter Lydia. Amy patten was with us at kelso. Sent from my iPad John Sterling 530 908-3836 26 Palm Ave Woodland, CA 95695 On May 28, 2013, at 4:01 PM, "Koonce, Sandy" > wrote: > The message below was posted to County Birds today. > > Sandy > > Sandy Koonce > Department of Mathematics > University of Redlands, Redlands, CA 92373 > > Date: 5/28/13 2:59 pm > From: Peter > Subject: [CB] Varied Bunting(s) at Oasis, Mono > Hi All, > > I was staking out the bird bath at Oasis at 10:50 AM Tuesday (today). Oddly, it was mostly attended by Cassin's Finchs and Pine Siskins and a couple fem Lazuli Buntings, then something interesting happened. A male Varied Bunting took a perch, back to me, waiting maybe 15 seconds for its turn. Shortly after it dropped down, another appeared, fairly warm brown uniformly distributed, which appeared to be the missus. I believe I had also seen the male flyby about an hour earlier just west of the bath. > To get to the bird bath, take a left from Rt. 168 where it T's into 222 at the Oasis Ranch gate. Go left/west 500' exactly. There's a powerline entering the ranch there from across the road and it is strung a long a little dike. Over the fence just to the right is a seep of irrigation water surrounded by weeds where they bath. If you park your truck nest to the fence and put a chair in the back, it's pretty comfy. I stuck around for a while longer hoping to get a picture, but it didn't show itself soon and VABU's aren't that photogenic. > > Peter Colasanti > presently in Big Pine > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Unsubscribe: mailto:CALBIRDS-unsubscribe AT yahoogroups.com Website: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CALBIRDS Listowners: mailto:CALBIRDS-owner AT yahoogroups.com For vacation suspension of mail go to the website. Click on Edit My Membership and set your mail option to No Email. Or, send a blank email to these addresses: Turn off email delivery: mailto:CALBIRDS-nomail AT yahoogroups.com Resume email delivery: mailto:CALBIRDS-normal AT yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: chuck notes and nighjars. From: Bruce Mast <cathrasher4 AT gmail.com> Date: Tue, 28 May 2013 21:49:16 -0700 Folks, I'm having trouble uploading my recording to Xeno-Canto. If you'd like a copy, email me offline and I'll send it to you. Beware: file size is 11 MB. Bruce From: Alvaro Jaramillo [mailto:chucao AT coastside.net] Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2013 9:12 AM To: 'Bruce Mast'; 'Calbirds' Cc: 'Monterey Bay Birdlist' Subject: chuck notes and nighjars. Bruce Superb post! Regarding that chip note, it is often difficult to hear but it seems to be used in excitement. When Whips respond to playback, they often come in giving these "chup" or "chuck" notes rather than the full song. After some time they will resume singing, and may chuck during a second bout of playback but then will not continue with the chuck notes and just sing. I am unsure if the chuck notes between songs are always there and just given softly at times so they are difficult to hear, or if they in fact chuck/chip between songs early in the season and when in highest hormone state, and then sing without chucks later in the season? I have heard similar use of chuck notes in Chuck-Wills-Widow, and in Rufous Nightjar and Band-winged Nighjars in the Neotropics at least those are the ones that stand out. Regards, Alvaro Alvaro Jaramillo alvaro AT alvarosadventures.com www.alvarosadventures.com _____ From: CALBIRDS AT yahoogroups.com [mailto:CALBIRDS AT yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Bruce Mast Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2013 8:52 AM To: Calbirds Cc: Monterey Bay Birdlist Subject: [CALBIRDS] Re: [MBB] Whip-poor-will right on schedule To elaborate on Randy's post, a few of us got eye-popping looks in evening light as well. Soon after the bird started calling, some of us, led by Logan Kahle, walked out the mowed path that contours above the clearing to get a better listen. At one point, the path passes through a grassy opening before plunging into woodland. About 8:45, Logan had traversed the opening and was peering ahead into the woodland while I remained on the other side of the opening. I whispered loudly "turn around!" because the Whip-Poorwill had flown up, started circling the opening, and was hovering mothlike behind Logan's head. The bird was a goatsucker by shape, flight style, and coloration. It was a bit larger than a Common Poorwill, with a longer, spatula-shaped tail that showed large rectangular white corners. It called incessantly, moving up and down the slope. Brian Sullivan and I attempted to get some high quality recordings. Between the footsteps, clothes rustling, barking dogs, and planes, we probably got a few decent clips. Interestingly, we could hear a soft "chip" note introducing the whistled notes. Bruce Mast Oakland On May 27, 2013 11:21 PM, "Randy Wardle" > wrote: > > Tonight (Monday evening) there were about 25 of us at the property in Aptos where the eastern WHIP-POOR-WILL remains. It is a beautiful place and I highly recommend going if you are able. Our hostess Patti was very gracious and gave everyone parking and viewing instructions. We all then made our way up the road to wait patiently for our vagrant guest to begin. Everyone was very friendly and had come from all over the Bay area. We all grew quiet about 8:20 pm and right on cue, at 8:27pm, the Whip-poor-will began his calls. He moved invisibly up and down the canyon calling over the next hour until everyone had left. A very cool and surreal experience. If you go, don't forget a flashlight to find your way back down the road! > > Randy Wardle > Aptos > > _______________________________________________ > mbb mailing list > mbb AT lists.pbsci.ucsc.edu > http://lists.pbsci.ucsc.edu/mailman/listinfo/mbb > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] __._,_.___ Reply via web post Reply to sender Reply to group Start a New Topic Messages in this topic (1) Recent Activity: . New Members 2 . New Photos 3 Visit Your Group Unsubscribe: mailto:CALBIRDS-unsubscribe AT yahoogroups.com Website: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CALBIRDS Listowners: mailto:CALBIRDS-owner AT yahoogroups.com For vacation suspension of mail go to the website. Click on Edit My Membership and set your mail option to No Email. Or, send a blank email to these addresses: Turn off email delivery: mailto:CALBIRDS-nomail AT yahoogroups.com Resume email delivery: mailto:CALBIRDS-normal AT yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Switch to: Text-Only, Daily Digest . Unsubscribe . Terms of Use . Send us Feedback . __,_._,___ _______________________________________________ mbb mailing list mbb AT lists.pbsci.ucsc.edu http://lists.pbsci.ucsc.edu/mailman/listinfo/mbb Subject: RE: chuck notes and nighjars. From: Bruce Mast <cathrasher4 AT gmail.com> Date: Tue, 28 May 2013 21:49:16 -0700 Folks, I'm having trouble uploading my recording to Xeno-Canto. If you'd like a copy, email me offline and I'll send it to you. Beware: file size is 11 MB. Bruce From: Alvaro Jaramillo [mailto:chucao AT coastside.net] Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2013 9:12 AM To: 'Bruce Mast'; 'Calbirds' Cc: 'Monterey Bay Birdlist' Subject: chuck notes and nighjars. Bruce Superb post! Regarding that chip note, it is often difficult to hear but it seems to be used in excitement. When Whips respond to playback, they often come in giving these "chup" or "chuck" notes rather than the full song. After some time they will resume singing, and may chuck during a second bout of playback but then will not continue with the chuck notes and just sing. I am unsure if the chuck notes between songs are always there and just given softly at times so they are difficult to hear, or if they in fact chuck/chip between songs early in the season and when in highest hormone state, and then sing without chucks later in the season? I have heard similar use of chuck notes in Chuck-Wills-Widow, and in Rufous Nightjar and Band-winged Nighjars in the Neotropics at least those are the ones that stand out. Regards, Alvaro Alvaro Jaramillo alvaro AT alvarosadventures.com www.alvarosadventures.com _____ From: CALBIRDS AT yahoogroups.com [mailto:CALBIRDS AT yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Bruce Mast Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2013 8:52 AM To: Calbirds Cc: Monterey Bay Birdlist Subject: [CALBIRDS] Re: [MBB] Whip-poor-will right on schedule To elaborate on Randy's post, a few of us got eye-popping looks in evening light as well. Soon after the bird started calling, some of us, led by Logan Kahle, walked out the mowed path that contours above the clearing to get a better listen. At one point, the path passes through a grassy opening before plunging into woodland. About 8:45, Logan had traversed the opening and was peering ahead into the woodland while I remained on the other side of the opening. I whispered loudly "turn around!" because the Whip-Poorwill had flown up, started circling the opening, and was hovering mothlike behind Logan's head. The bird was a goatsucker by shape, flight style, and coloration. It was a bit larger than a Common Poorwill, with a longer, spatula-shaped tail that showed large rectangular white corners. It called incessantly, moving up and down the slope. Brian Sullivan and I attempted to get some high quality recordings. Between the footsteps, clothes rustling, barking dogs, and planes, we probably got a few decent clips. Interestingly, we could hear a soft "chip" note introducing the whistled notes. Bruce Mast Oakland On May 27, 2013 11:21 PM, "Randy Wardle" > wrote: > > Tonight (Monday evening) there were about 25 of us at the property in Aptos where the eastern WHIP-POOR-WILL remains. It is a beautiful place and I highly recommend going if you are able. Our hostess Patti was very gracious and gave everyone parking and viewing instructions. We all then made our way up the road to wait patiently for our vagrant guest to begin. Everyone was very friendly and had come from all over the Bay area. We all grew quiet about 8:20 pm and right on cue, at 8:27pm, the Whip-poor-will began his calls. He moved invisibly up and down the canyon calling over the next hour until everyone had left. A very cool and surreal experience. If you go, don't forget a flashlight to find your way back down the road! > > Randy Wardle > Aptos > > _______________________________________________ > mbb mailing list > mbb AT lists.pbsci.ucsc.edu > http://lists.pbsci.ucsc.edu/mailman/listinfo/mbb > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Unsubscribe: mailto:CALBIRDS-unsubscribe AT yahoogroups.com Website: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CALBIRDS Listowners: mailto:CALBIRDS-owner AT yahoogroups.com For vacation suspension of mail go to the website. Click on Edit My Membership and set your mail option to No Email. Or, send a blank email to these addresses: Turn off email delivery: mailto:CALBIRDS-nomail AT yahoogroups.com Resume email delivery: mailto:CALBIRDS-normal AT yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: FWD: Varied Bunting in Oasis From: John Sterling <jsterling AT wavecable.com> Date: Tue, 28 May 2013 17:24:13 -0700 Todd Easterla and fritz Steurer are heading there now and should get there before dusk. No wind in eastern Mohave today but howling wind in western Mohave. Highlights today were a female orchard oriole at kelso and singing adult male rose breasted grosbeak at chet Huffman park in baker. Also a least tern at zyzzyx. And a zone tailed hawk last night at mid hills campground and a pair today at the intersection of cedar canyon and black canyon roads which is north of the campground and may be a second pair. All with Todd, fritz and my daughter Lydia. Amy patten was with us at kelso. Sent from my iPad John Sterling 530 908-3836 26 Palm Ave Woodland, CA 95695 On May 28, 2013, at 4:01 PM, "Koonce, Sandy" wrote: > The message below was posted to County Birds today. > > Sandy > > Sandy Koonce > Department of Mathematics > University of Redlands, Redlands, CA 92373 > > Date: 5/28/13 2:59 pm > From: Peter > Subject: [CB] Varied Bunting(s) at Oasis, Mono > Hi All, > > I was staking out the bird bath at Oasis at 10:50 AM Tuesday (today). Oddly, it was mostly attended by Cassin's Finchs and Pine Siskins and a couple fem Lazuli Buntings, then something interesting happened. A male Varied Bunting took a perch, back to me, waiting maybe 15 seconds for its turn. Shortly after it dropped down, another appeared, fairly warm brown uniformly distributed, which appeared to be the missus. I believe I had also seen the male flyby about an hour earlier just west of the bath. > To get to the bird bath, take a left from Rt. 168 where it T's into 222 at the Oasis Ranch gate. Go left/west 500' exactly. There's a powerline entering the ranch there from across the road and it is strung a long a little dike. Over the fence just to the right is a seep of irrigation water surrounded by weeds where they bath. If you park your truck nest to the fence and put a chair in the back, it's pretty comfy. I stuck around for a while longer hoping to get a picture, but it didn't show itself soon and VABU's aren't that photogenic. > > Peter Colasanti > presently in Big Pine > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Unsubscribe: mailto:CALBIRDS-unsubscribe AT yahoogroups.com Website: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CALBIRDS Listowners: mailto:CALBIRDS-owner AT yahoogroups.com For vacation suspension of mail go to the website. Click on Edit My Membership and set your mail option to No Email. Or, send a blank email to these addresses: Turn off email delivery: mailto:CALBIRDS-nomail AT yahoogroups.com Resume email delivery: mailto:CALBIRDS-normal AT yahoogroups.com Subject: FWD: Varied Bunting in Oasis From: "Koonce, Sandy" <sandy_koonce AT redlands.edu> Date: Tue, 28 May 2013 16:01:57 -0700 The message below was posted to County Birds today. Sandy Sandy Koonce Department of Mathematics University of Redlands, Redlands, CA 92373 Date: 5/28/13 2:59 pm From: Peter Subject: [CB] Varied Bunting(s) at Oasis, Mono Hi All, I was staking out the bird bath at Oasis at 10:50 AM Tuesday (today). Oddly, it was mostly attended by Cassin's Finchs and Pine Siskins and a couple fem Lazuli Buntings, then something interesting happened. A male Varied Bunting took a perch, back to me, waiting maybe 15 seconds for its turn. Shortly after it dropped down, another appeared, fairly warm brown uniformly distributed, which appeared to be the missus. I believe I had also seen the male flyby about an hour earlier just west of the bath. To get to the bird bath, take a left from Rt. 168 where it T's into 222 at the Oasis Ranch gate. Go left/west 500' exactly. There's a powerline entering the ranch there from across the road and it is strung a long a little dike. Over the fence just to the right is a seep of irrigation water surrounded by weeds where they bath. If you park your truck nest to the fence and put a chair in the back, it's pretty comfy. I stuck around for a while longer hoping to get a picture, but it didn't show itself soon and VABU's aren't that photogenic. Peter Colasanti presently in Big Pine ------------------------------------ Unsubscribe: mailto:CALBIRDS-unsubscribe AT yahoogroups.com Website: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CALBIRDS Listowners: mailto:CALBIRDS-owner AT yahoogroups.com For vacation suspension of mail go to the website. Click on Edit My Membership and set your mail option to No Email. Or, send a blank email to these addresses: Turn off email delivery: mailto:CALBIRDS-nomail AT yahoogroups.com Resume email delivery: mailto:CALBIRDS-normal AT yahoogroups.com Subject: upcoming San Diego June 16 pelagic trip From: "lehman.paul AT verizon.net" <lehman.paul@verizon.net> Date: Tue, 28 May 2013 14:31:41 -0400 The 12-hour (7AM to 7PM) pelagic trip aboard "Grande" out of San Diego to the 9-Mile and 30-Mile Banks in San Diego County waters on Sunday, June 16, still has space. The cost is $75 (through June 9; $85 thereafter). Make reservations by calling Point Loma Sportfishing at 619-223-1627. Mid-June is a good time offshore for Ashy Storm-Petrel and "late-season" Black-footed Albatross and Scripps's Murrelet. Rare but distinctly possible are Red-billed Tropicbird, Brown Booby, and South Polar Skua. We expect to see such regular species as Pink-footed and Sooty Shearwaters, Black Storm-Petrel, and Cassin's Auklet. Also possible are summering jaegers and other alcids, and perhaps Leach's Storm-Petrel. Whales of several species (e.g., Blue, Fin, Humpback) are a distinct possibility. --Paul Lehman, San Diego -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web.com – Enhanced email for the mobile individual based on Microsoft® Exchange - http://link.mail2web.com/Personal/EnhancedEmail ------------------------------------ Unsubscribe: mailto:CALBIRDS-unsubscribe AT yahoogroups.com Website: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CALBIRDS Listowners: mailto:CALBIRDS-owner AT yahoogroups.com For vacation suspension of mail go to the website. Click on Edit My Membership and set your mail option to No Email. Or, send a blank email to these addresses: Turn off email delivery: mailto:CALBIRDS-nomail AT yahoogroups.com Resume email delivery: mailto:CALBIRDS-normal AT yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: Whip-poor-will right on schedule From: Bruce Mast <cathrasher4 AT gmail.com> Date: Tue, 28 May 2013 08:52:00 -0700 To elaborate on Randy's post, a few of us got eye-popping looks in evening light as well. Soon after the bird started calling, some of us, led by Logan Kahle, walked out the mowed path that contours above the clearing to get a better listen. At one point, the path passes through a grassy opening before plunging into woodland. About 8:45, Logan had traversed the opening and was peering ahead into the woodland while I remained on the other side of the opening. I whispered loudly "turn around!" because the Whip-Poorwill had flown up, started circling the opening, and was hovering mothlike behind Logan's head. The bird was a goatsucker by shape, flight style, and coloration. It was a bit larger than a Common Poorwill, with a longer, spatula-shaped tail that showed large rectangular white corners. It called incessantly, moving up and down the slope. Brian Sullivan and I attempted to get some high quality recordings. Between the footsteps, clothes rustling, barking dogs, and planes, we probably got a few decent clips. Interestingly, we could hear a soft "chip" note introducing the whistled notes. Bruce Mast Oakland On May 27, 2013 11:21 PM, "Randy Wardle" wrote: > > Tonight (Monday evening) there were about 25 of us at the property in Aptos where the eastern WHIP-POOR-WILL remains. It is a beautiful place and I highly recommend going if you are able. Our hostess Patti was very gracious and gave everyone parking and viewing instructions. We all then made our way up the road to wait patiently for our vagrant guest to begin. Everyone was very friendly and had come from all over the Bay area. We all grew quiet about 8:20 pm and right on cue, at 8:27pm, the Whip-poor-will began his calls. He moved invisibly up and down the canyon calling over the next hour until everyone had left. A very cool and surreal experience. If you go, don't forget a flashlight to find your way back down the road! > > Randy Wardle > Aptos > > _______________________________________________ > mbb mailing list > mbb AT lists.pbsci.ucsc.edu > http://lists.pbsci.ucsc.edu/mailman/listinfo/mbb >_______________________________________________ mbb mailing list mbb AT lists.pbsci.ucsc.edu http://lists.pbsci.ucsc.edu/mailman/listinfo/mbb Subject: chuck notes and nighjars. From: "Alvaro Jaramillo" <chucao AT coastside.net> Date: Tue, 28 May 2013 09:12:01 -0700 Bruce Superb post! Regarding that chip note, it is often difficult to hear but it seems to be used in excitement. When Whips respond to playback, they often come in giving these "chup" or "chuck" notes rather than the full song. After some time they will resume singing, and may chuck during a second bout of playback but then will not continue with the chuck notes and just sing. I am unsure if the chuck notes between songs are always there and just given softly at times so they are difficult to hear, or if they in fact chuck/chip between songs early in the season and when in highest hormone state, and then sing without chucks later in the season? I have heard similar use of chuck notes in Chuck-Wills-Widow, and in Rufous Nightjar and Band-winged Nighjars in the Neotropics at least those are the ones that stand out. Regards, Alvaro Alvaro Jaramillo alvaro AT alvarosadventures.com www.alvarosadventures.com _____ From: CALBIRDS AT yahoogroups.com [mailto:CALBIRDS AT yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Bruce Mast Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2013 8:52 AM To: Calbirds Cc: Monterey Bay Birdlist Subject: [CALBIRDS] Re: [MBB] Whip-poor-will right on schedule To elaborate on Randy's post, a few of us got eye-popping looks in evening light as well. Soon after the bird started calling, some of us, led by Logan Kahle, walked out the mowed path that contours above the clearing to get a better listen. At one point, the path passes through a grassy opening before plunging into woodland. About 8:45, Logan had traversed the opening and was peering ahead into the woodland while I remained on the other side of the opening. I whispered loudly "turn around!" because the Whip-Poorwill had flown up, started circling the opening, and was hovering mothlike behind Logan's head. The bird was a goatsucker by shape, flight style, and coloration. It was a bit larger than a Common Poorwill, with a longer, spatula-shaped tail that showed large rectangular white corners. It called incessantly, moving up and down the slope. Brian Sullivan and I attempted to get some high quality recordings. Between the footsteps, clothes rustling, barking dogs, and planes, we probably got a few decent clips. Interestingly, we could hear a soft "chip" note introducing the whistled notes. Bruce Mast Oakland On May 27, 2013 11:21 PM, "Randy Wardle" > wrote: > > Tonight (Monday evening) there were about 25 of us at the property in Aptos where the eastern WHIP-POOR-WILL remains. It is a beautiful place and I highly recommend going if you are able. Our hostess Patti was very gracious and gave everyone parking and viewing instructions. We all then made our way up the road to wait patiently for our vagrant guest to begin. Everyone was very friendly and had come from all over the Bay area. We all grew quiet about 8:20 pm and right on cue, at 8:27pm, the Whip-poor-will began his calls. He moved invisibly up and down the canyon calling over the next hour until everyone had left. A very cool and surreal experience. If you go, don't forget a flashlight to find your way back down the road! > > Randy Wardle > Aptos > > _______________________________________________ > mbb mailing list > mbb AT lists.pbsci.ucsc.edu > http://lists.pbsci.ucsc.edu/mailman/listinfo/mbb > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Unsubscribe: mailto:CALBIRDS-unsubscribe AT yahoogroups.com Website: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CALBIRDS Listowners: mailto:CALBIRDS-owner AT yahoogroups.com For vacation suspension of mail go to the website. Click on Edit My Membership and set your mail option to No Email. Or, send a blank email to these addresses: Turn off email delivery: mailto:CALBIRDS-nomail AT yahoogroups.com Resume email delivery: mailto:CALBIRDS-normal AT yahoogroups.com Subject: chuck notes and nighjars. From: "Alvaro Jaramillo" <chucao AT coastside.net> Date: Tue, 28 May 2013 09:12:01 -0700 Bruce Superb post! Regarding that chip note, it is often difficult to hear but it seems to be used in excitement. When Whips respond to playback, they often come in giving these "chup" or "chuck" notes rather than the full song. After some time they will resume singing, and may chuck during a second bout of playback but then will not continue with the chuck notes and just sing. I am unsure if the chuck notes between songs are always there and just given softly at times so they are difficult to hear, or if they in fact chuck/chip between songs early in the season and when in highest hormone state, and then sing without chucks later in the season? I have heard similar use of chuck notes in Chuck-Wills-Widow, and in Rufous Nightjar and Band-winged Nighjars in the Neotropics at least those are the ones that stand out. Regards, Alvaro Alvaro Jaramillo alvaro AT alvarosadventures.com www.alvarosadventures.com _____ From: CALBIRDS AT yahoogroups.com [mailto:CALBIRDS AT yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Bruce Mast Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2013 8:52 AM To: Calbirds Cc: Monterey Bay Birdlist Subject: [CALBIRDS] Re: [MBB] Whip-poor-will right on schedule To elaborate on Randy's post, a few of us got eye-popping looks in evening light as well. Soon after the bird started calling, some of us, led by Logan Kahle, walked out the mowed path that contours above the clearing to get a better listen. At one point, the path passes through a grassy opening before plunging into woodland. About 8:45, Logan had traversed the opening and was peering ahead into the woodland while I remained on the other side of the opening. I whispered loudly "turn around!" because the Whip-Poorwill had flown up, started circling the opening, and was hovering mothlike behind Logan's head. The bird was a goatsucker by shape, flight style, and coloration. It was a bit larger than a Common Poorwill, with a longer, spatula-shaped tail that showed large rectangular white corners. It called incessantly, moving up and down the slope. Brian Sullivan and I attempted to get some high quality recordings. Between the footsteps, clothes rustling, barking dogs, and planes, we probably got a few decent clips. Interestingly, we could hear a soft "chip" note introducing the whistled notes. Bruce Mast Oakland On May 27, 2013 11:21 PM, "Randy Wardle" > wrote: > > Tonight (Monday evening) there were about 25 of us at the property in Aptos where the eastern WHIP-POOR-WILL remains. It is a beautiful place and I highly recommend going if you are able. Our hostess Patti was very gracious and gave everyone parking and viewing instructions. We all then made our way up the road to wait patiently for our vagrant guest to begin. Everyone was very friendly and had come from all over the Bay area. We all grew quiet about 8:20 pm and right on cue, at 8:27pm, the Whip-poor-will began his calls. He moved invisibly up and down the canyon calling over the next hour until everyone had left. A very cool and surreal experience. If you go, don't forget a flashlight to find your way back down the road! > > Randy Wardle > Aptos > > _______________________________________________ > mbb mailing list > mbb AT lists.pbsci.ucsc.edu > http://lists.pbsci.ucsc.edu/mailman/listinfo/mbb > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] __._,_.___ Reply via web post Reply to sender Reply to group Start a New Topic Messages in this topic (1) Recent Activity: * New Members 2 * New Photos 3 Visit Your Group Unsubscribe: mailto:CALBIRDS-unsubscribe AT yahoogroups.com Website: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CALBIRDS Listowners: mailto:CALBIRDS-owner AT yahoogroups.com For vacation suspension of mail go to the website. Click on Edit My Membership and set your mail option to No Email. Or, send a blank email to these addresses: Turn off email delivery: mailto:CALBIRDS-nomail AT yahoogroups.com Resume email delivery: mailto:CALBIRDS-normal AT yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Switch to: Text-Only, Daily Digest . Unsubscribe . Terms of Use . Send us Feedback . __,_._,___ _______________________________________________ mbb mailing list mbb AT lists.pbsci.ucsc.edu http://lists.pbsci.ucsc.edu/mailman/listinfo/mbb Subject: Re: [MBB] Whip-poor-will right on schedule From: Bruce Mast <cathrasher4 AT gmail.com> Date: Tue, 28 May 2013 08:52:00 -0700 To elaborate on Randy's post, a few of us got eye-popping looks in evening light as well. Soon after the bird started calling, some of us, led by Logan Kahle, walked out the mowed path that contours above the clearing to get a better listen. At one point, the path passes through a grassy opening before plunging into woodland. About 8:45, Logan had traversed the opening and was peering ahead into the woodland while I remained on the other side of the opening. I whispered loudly "turn around!" because the Whip-Poorwill had flown up, started circling the opening, and was hovering mothlike behind Logan's head. The bird was a goatsucker by shape, flight style, and coloration. It was a bit larger than a Common Poorwill, with a longer, spatula-shaped tail that showed large rectangular white corners. It called incessantly, moving up and down the slope. Brian Sullivan and I attempted to get some high quality recordings. Between the footsteps, clothes rustling, barking dogs, and planes, we probably got a few decent clips. Interestingly, we could hear a soft "chip" note introducing the whistled notes. Bruce Mast Oakland On May 27, 2013 11:21 PM, "Randy Wardle" wrote: > > Tonight (Monday evening) there were about 25 of us at the property in Aptos where the eastern WHIP-POOR-WILL remains. It is a beautiful place and I highly recommend going if you are able. Our hostess Patti was very gracious and gave everyone parking and viewing instructions. We all then made our way up the road to wait patiently for our vagrant guest to begin. Everyone was very friendly and had come from all over the Bay area. We all grew quiet about 8:20 pm and right on cue, at 8:27pm, the Whip-poor-will began his calls. He moved invisibly up and down the canyon calling over the next hour until everyone had left. A very cool and surreal experience. If you go, don't forget a flashlight to find your way back down the road! > > Randy Wardle > Aptos > > _______________________________________________ > mbb mailing list > mbb AT lists.pbsci.ucsc.edu > http://lists.pbsci.ucsc.edu/mailman/listinfo/mbb > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Unsubscribe: mailto:CALBIRDS-unsubscribe AT yahoogroups.com Website: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CALBIRDS Listowners: mailto:CALBIRDS-owner AT yahoogroups.com For vacation suspension of mail go to the website. Click on Edit My Membership and set your mail option to No Email. Or, send a blank email to these addresses: Turn off email delivery: mailto:CALBIRDS-nomail AT yahoogroups.com Resume email delivery: mailto:CALBIRDS-normal AT yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [NBB] FW: Bodega Bay Booby From: Denise Herzberg <denisevh AT yahoo.com> Date: Mon, 27 May 2013 11:01:55 -0700 11:00 5/27/13 Brown Booby is OK. Spotted by Chris Conard flying in the harbor. Sent by my thumbs On May 26, 2013, at 4:59 PM, "Alvaro Jaramillo" wrote: > Folks > > Regarding the Brown Booby from Angus Wilson, > > Alvaro > > Alvaro Jaramillo > alvaro AT alvarosadventures.com > www.alvarosadventures.com > > -----Original Message----- > From: Angus Wilson [mailto:oceanwanderers AT gmail.com] > Sent: Sunday, May 26, 2013 1:17 PM > To: Al Jaramillo > Subject: Bodega Bay Booby > > Hi Alvaro, I wonder if you could post this update to the appropriate fora as > per 1:00 PM Sunday? > > We are currently looking at the Bodega Brown Booby. A few minutes ago it got > snagged on the lines of a fisherman on the breakwater and was splashing > around in the water getting more tangled. Fortunately he was a responsible > guy and managed to catch the booby with his sweatshirt when it tried to > clamber onto the rocks and then spent several minutes cutting the line away. > The bird is now free and sitting on the breakwater, flapping periodically. > It made no attempt to flee him, which is a bit odd. No way to tell from this > distance what, if any, damage it sustained. > > Cheers, Angus Wilson, New York > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Unsubscribe: mailto:CALBIRDS-unsubscribe AT yahoogroups.com Website: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CALBIRDS Listowners: mailto:CALBIRDS-owner AT yahoogroups.com For vacation suspension of mail go to the website. Click on Edit My Membership and set your mail option to No Email. Or, send a blank email to these addresses: Turn off email delivery: mailto:CALBIRDS-nomail AT yahoogroups.com Resume email delivery: mailto:CALBIRDS-normal AT yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: FW: Bodega Bay Booby From: Denise Herzberg <denisevh AT yahoo.com> Date: Mon, 27 May 2013 11:01:55 -0700 11:00 5/27/13 Brown Booby is OK. Spotted by Chris Conard flying in the harbor. Sent by my thumbs On May 26, 2013, at 4:59 PM, "Alvaro Jaramillo" wrote: > Folks > > Regarding the Brown Booby from Angus Wilson, > > Alvaro > > Alvaro Jaramillo > alvaro AT alvarosadventures.com > www.alvarosadventures.com > > -----Original Message----- > From: Angus Wilson [mailto:oceanwanderers AT gmail.com] > Sent: Sunday, May 26, 2013 1:17 PM > To: Al Jaramillo > Subject: Bodega Bay Booby > > Hi Alvaro, I wonder if you could post this update to the appropriate fora as > per 1:00 PM Sunday? > > We are currently looking at the Bodega Brown Booby. A few minutes ago it got > snagged on the lines of a fisherman on the breakwater and was splashing > around in the water getting more tangled. Fortunately he was a responsible > guy and managed to catch the booby with his sweatshirt when it tried to > clamber onto the rocks and then spent several minutes cutting the line away. > The bird is now free and sitting on the breakwater, flapping periodically. > It made no attempt to flee him, which is a bit odd. No way to tell from this > distance what, if any, damage it sustained. > > Cheers, Angus Wilson, New York > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Unsubscribe: mailto:northbaybirds-unsubscribe AT yahoogroups.com Website: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/northbaybirds/ Listowners: mailto:northbaybirds-owner AT yahoogroups.com Please do not post "Out of Office" messages to NorthBayBirds. For vacation suspension of mail go to the website. Click on Edit My Membership and set your mail option to No Email. Or, send a blank email to these addresses: Turn off email delivery: mailto:northbaybirds-nomail AT yahoogroups.com Resume email delivery: mailto:northbaybirds-normal AT yahoogroups.com Subject: FW: Bodega Bay Booby From: "Alvaro Jaramillo" <chucao AT coastside.net> Date: Sun, 26 May 2013 16:59:08 -0700 Folks Regarding the Brown Booby from Angus Wilson, Alvaro Alvaro Jaramillo alvaro AT alvarosadventures.com www.alvarosadventures.com -----Original Message----- From: Angus Wilson [mailto:oceanwanderers AT gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, May 26, 2013 1:17 PM To: Al Jaramillo Subject: Bodega Bay Booby Hi Alvaro, I wonder if you could post this update to the appropriate fora as per 1:00 PM Sunday? We are currently looking at the Bodega Brown Booby. A few minutes ago it got snagged on the lines of a fisherman on the breakwater and was splashing around in the water getting more tangled. Fortunately he was a responsible guy and managed to catch the booby with his sweatshirt when it tried to clamber onto the rocks and then spent several minutes cutting the line away. The bird is now free and sitting on the breakwater, flapping periodically. It made no attempt to flee him, which is a bit odd. No way to tell from this distance what, if any, damage it sustained. Cheers, Angus Wilson, New York ------------------------------------ Unsubscribe: mailto:CALBIRDS-unsubscribe AT yahoogroups.com Website: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CALBIRDS Listowners: mailto:CALBIRDS-owner AT yahoogroups.com For vacation suspension of mail go to the website. Click on Edit My Membership and set your mail option to No Email. Or, send a blank email to these addresses: Turn off email delivery: mailto:CALBIRDS-nomail AT yahoogroups.com Resume email delivery: mailto:CALBIRDS-normal AT yahoogroups.com Subject: FW: Bodega Bay Booby From: "Alvaro Jaramillo" <chucao AT coastside.net> Date: Sun, 26 May 2013 16:59:08 -0700 Folks Regarding the Brown Booby from Angus Wilson, Alvaro Alvaro Jaramillo alvaro AT alvarosadventures.com www.alvarosadventures.com -----Original Message----- From: Angus Wilson [mailto:oceanwanderers AT gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, May 26, 2013 1:17 PM To: Al Jaramillo Subject: Bodega Bay Booby Hi Alvaro, I wonder if you could post this update to the appropriate fora as per 1:00 PM Sunday? We are currently looking at the Bodega Brown Booby. A few minutes ago it got snagged on the lines of a fisherman on the breakwater and was splashing around in the water getting more tangled. Fortunately he was a responsible guy and managed to catch the booby with his sweatshirt when it tried to clamber onto the rocks and then spent several minutes cutting the line away. The bird is now free and sitting on the breakwater, flapping periodically. It made no attempt to flee him, which is a bit odd. No way to tell from this distance what, if any, damage it sustained. Cheers, Angus Wilson, New York ------------------------------------ Unsubscribe: mailto:northbaybirds-unsubscribe AT yahoogroups.com Website: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/northbaybirds/ Listowners: mailto:northbaybirds-owner AT yahoogroups.com Please do not post "Out of Office" messages to NorthBayBirds. For vacation suspension of mail go to the website. Click on Edit My Membership and set your mail option to No Email. Or, send a blank email to these addresses: Turn off email delivery: mailto:northbaybirds-nomail AT yahoogroups.com Resume email delivery: mailto:northbaybirds-normal AT yahoogroups.com Subject: Flamingo at Salton Sea From: Judy Johnson <jajohn1954 AT yahoo.com> Date: Sun, 26 May 2013 13:30:00 -0700 I spotted a flamingo at Morton Bay at 1PM, Sunday, May 26. It was with a group of cormorants and white and brown pelicans, down on Garst Road just past the Alamo River bridge, just past the second spillover. I got some pictures, will post them when I can. Judy Johnson Fresno, CA (sent from my iPhone) ------------------------------------ Unsubscribe: mailto:CALBIRDS-unsubscribe AT yahoogroups.com Website: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CALBIRDS Listowners: mailto:CALBIRDS-owner AT yahoogroups.com For vacation suspension of mail go to the website. Click on Edit My Membership and set your mail option to No Email. Or, send a blank email to these addresses: Turn off email delivery: mailto:CALBIRDS-nomail AT yahoogroups.com Resume email delivery: mailto:CALBIRDS-normal AT yahoogroups.com Subject: Hudsonian godwit imperial county From: John Sterling <jsterling AT wavecable.com> Date: Sun, 26 May 2013 06:28:24 -0700 At sunrise this morning I watched the Hudsonian Godwit feed in the pond then call twice and fly fast directly north.....I watched it until it disappeared from view. Will check again this morning to see if it returned. Sent from my iPad John Sterling 530 908-3836 26 Palm Ave Woodland, CA 95695 ------------------------------------ Unsubscribe: mailto:CALBIRDS-unsubscribe AT yahoogroups.com Website: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CALBIRDS Listowners: mailto:CALBIRDS-owner AT yahoogroups.com For vacation suspension of mail go to the website. Click on Edit My Membership and set your mail option to No Email. Or, send a blank email to these addresses: Turn off email delivery: mailto:CALBIRDS-nomail AT yahoogroups.com Resume email delivery: mailto:CALBIRDS-normal AT yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: Apparent Eastern Whip-poor-will at Aptos in Santa Cruz County From: Lance Benner <lbenner AT charter.net> Date: Sun, 26 May 2013 03:11:26 -0400 (EDT) All, I agree that this doesn't sound like a Mexican whip-poor-will. For comparison, I recorded a Mexican whip-poor-will at Green Canyon in the San Bernardino Mountains on Tuesday night (May 21) and uploaded one of my files to Xeno-Canto at: http://www.xeno-canto.org/134482 You can listen to it for comparison with the bird that David just reported. The two birds sound distinctly different. That said, when I generated a sonogram of Alex Rinkert's recording and compared it with a sonogram of the Eastern Whip-poor-will on the Stokes Eastern Birds CD, they aren't a perfect match, but the bird near Santa Cruz sounds MUCH more like an eastern whip than a Mexican. After poking around a bit with recordings of Eastern whips on Xeno-Canto, it's clear that there's some variation in the cadence and structure of eastern whip calls. Really nice find and a very, very nice recording! Regards, Lance Benner Altadena, CA On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 11:26 PM, David Suddjian wrote: > Birders, > > Last night I was alerted by Melanie Wirtanen to the presence of a bird > thought to be a Mexican Whip-poor-will in Aptos. The bird had been > present > for at least a week, and maybe several days longer than that, and had > been > noted as unusual by Melanie and her husband, and Patti and Graham > Bubb, and > Melanie was able to determine it was a whip-poor-will. This evening > (May > 25) I went to hear it with Alex Rinkert, John Garrett and Lois and > Wally > Goldfrank. We were expecting to encounter a Mexican Whip-poor-will. > The > bird began to call in the distance at 8:32 pm. At first it was far off > and > hard to hear, but later we heard it very well and began to realize > that the > call did not match that of Mexican, but thought it might be an Eastern > Whip-poor-will! We listened to it as it called in bouts for over an > hour > and eventually heard it at fairly close range and Alex obtained some > recordings of the call on his camera (and I some lesser quality > recordings > on my lesser quality camera). After we got back in cell reception we > compared what we heard and Alex's recording to some recordings on line > and > we believe it is an Eastern Whip-poor-will (which if accepted would be > the > 2nd CA record, I believe). We welcome informed opinions. > > Alex's recording from his video is here: > http://www.flickr.com/photos/bdmanzanita/8837432778/ > > Generally speaking, this bird's call had a fairly clear 1st note, a > 2nd > note with a quaver or slight burr, and a highest 3rd note that seemed > say > 'will' and had a slight down inflection. In contrast, the Mexican has > 1st > and 2nd notes that are both burry (and much more so than the Aptos > bird), > and the third note is more a 'wee' and does not have a down > inflection. > > The bird is located along a private road which requires passage > through a > combination gate. Fortunately, Patti and Graham Bubb are extending to > birders some very hospitable access through June 2, after which time > they > will be away. Patti invites birders to call her to arrange permission > to > visit. 831 689-0331. We hope everyone will be courteous and > respectful. > > Call first for permission, but here are the directions to get you > there. > Take Freedom Blvd from Highway 1 and go 0.9 mile to Valencia Road. Go > left > on Valencia Road for 1.1 miles to Cox Road. Go right on Cox Road for > 1.0 > mile and veer left onto a private drive at a bank of mailboxes located > on > the left side. Here you enter Valencia Creek Ranch. After about 0.1 > mile > you come to a gate with a keypad combination, which can be obtained by > calling Patti Bubb. After passing through the gate, you immediately > pass a > white house on he left, then a low red barn-type structure, and park > near > the barn, There is a house with a redwood board fence immediately > ahead. > The bird has been heard right near that house, but tonight we heard it > west > of that house, across the nearby drainage which is Valencia Creek. The > road > forks just pass the house and the left fork dips down to cross the > creek > and doubles back as it climbs out of the creek. We were within 75 > meters of > the bird about 200 meters after crossing the creek. It was calling > from a > patch of scrub that is upslope. Patti reports that it calls most of > the > night. She thought it began at 8:15 last night, but tonight it was at > 8:32 > pm. > > David Suddjian > Capitola > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > ------------------------------------ > > Unsubscribe: mailto:CALBIRDS-unsubscribe AT yahoogroups.com > Website: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CALBIRDS > Listowners: mailto:CALBIRDS-owner AT yahoogroups.com > > For vacation suspension of mail go to the website. Click on Edit My > Membership and set your mail option to No Email. Or, send a blank > email to these addresses: > Turn off email delivery: mailto:CALBIRDS-nomail AT yahoogroups.com > Resume email delivery: mailto:CALBIRDS-normal AT yahoogroups.com > > Subject: Baltimore Oriole, chiriaco summit From: "Dan" <ropepushercuz AT yahoo.com> Date: Sun, 26 May 2013 01:25:14 -0000 Adam Searcy and I found male Baltimore oriole in the front yard of the main chiriaco house, feeding in the flower pots by the front door. Cheers. -Dan Maxwell, calaveras county ------------------------------------ Unsubscribe: mailto:CALBIRDS-unsubscribe AT yahoogroups.com Website: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CALBIRDS Listowners: mailto:CALBIRDS-owner AT yahoogroups.com For vacation suspension of mail go to the website. Click on Edit My Membership and set your mail option to No Email. Or, send a blank email to these addresses: Turn off email delivery: mailto:CALBIRDS-nomail AT yahoogroups.com Resume email delivery: mailto:CALBIRDS-normal AT yahoogroups.com Subject: HUDWIT still present From: "Dan" <ropepushercuz AT yahoo.com> Date: Sat, 25 May 2013 13:06:52 -0000 Hi all. The godwit is still here this morning along kershaw between ramer and finney. It has moved into the dead tamarisk at the south end of the pond. Cheers. -Dan Maxwell, calaveras county ------------------------------------ Unsubscribe: mailto:CALBIRDS-unsubscribe AT yahoogroups.com Website: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CALBIRDS Listowners: mailto:CALBIRDS-owner AT yahoogroups.com For vacation suspension of mail go to the website. Click on Edit My Membership and set your mail option to No Email. Or, send a blank email to these addresses: Turn off email delivery: mailto:CALBIRDS-nomail AT yahoogroups.com Resume email delivery: mailto:CALBIRDS-normal AT yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: Hudsonian Godwit in Imperial Valley continues From: Bob Miller <bob.miller AT mindspring.com> Date: Fri, 24 May 2013 23:06:07 -0400 (EDT) Hi all, The Hudsonian Godwit was still present at Kershaw Pond when I left there this evening at 6:45pm. There were about 15 birders present when I arrived at 6pm and the bird was sleeping in the same location in the SW portion of the pond as when found by Guy and Elizabeth this morning. Once in awhile the bird would preen for a few minutes but then go right back to the sleeping position in the presense of numerous Black-necked Stilt, American Avocet and Cinnamon Teal. As the light faded, everyone present was suddenly able to get fantastic looks at the bird in flight, well all of the birds actually, and I am sure some exceptioanly good flight photographs were had as the entire flock of birds suddenly erupted to the air and circled in front of us for a few minutes. Will the bird be there in the morning? Your guess is as good as mine but I am guessing not. If I were that bird, I would have left there at 6:40pm. See ya at the sea...................... -----Original Message----- From: Barbara Carlson Sent: May 24, 2013 10:09 AM To: Inlandcountybirds , CALBIRDS Subject: [CALBIRDS] Hudsonian Godwit in Imperial Valley continues The Hudsonain Godwit continues as of 10 a.m. on the pond along Kershaw Road due west of the main grove of trees at Finney Lake. The bird is finding lots of food and so hopefully it'll stay until it is ready to fly a thousand miles or more. Paul drove... fast. ;-) Barbara Carlson San Diego Sent from Yahoo! Mail on Android [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] (!__!) (0V0) HAPPY BIRDING {}~~{} BOB MILLER ='''='''== Southwest Birders Brawley, CA. 92227 Imperial County 760-455-1413 http://www.southwestbirders.com http://blog.southwestbirders.com bob.miller "at" mindspring.com HELP I'm birding and I can't stop! Will bird for food! ------------------------------------ Unsubscribe: mailto:CALBIRDS-unsubscribe AT yahoogroups.com Website: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CALBIRDS Listowners: mailto:CALBIRDS-owner AT yahoogroups.com For vacation suspension of mail go to the website. Click on Edit My Membership and set your mail option to No Email. Or, send a blank email to these addresses: Turn off email delivery: mailto:CALBIRDS-nomail AT yahoogroups.com Resume email delivery: mailto:CALBIRDS-normal AT yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: Harris's Hawk Jacumba?? From: Chet Ogan <chet_ogan AT yahoo.com> Date: Fri, 24 May 2013 08:41:22 -0700 (PDT) Todd, Jay Keller reported seeing the Harris's Hawk in Jacumba through eBird on May 19th, 2013.  Good Luck. Neat bird.   Chet Ogan oganc AT sbcglobal.net 707-442-9353 home 707-496-9001 cell ________________________________ From: toddeasterla To: CALBIRDS AT yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2013 9:48 PM Subject: [CALBIRDS] Harris's Hawk Jacumba??   Can anyone tell me if the Harris Hawks are still being seen in the Jacumba area please. Please reply offline if you feel the need. Thanks! Todd Easterla Rancho Cordova, Ca. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Unsubscribe: mailto:CALBIRDS-unsubscribe AT yahoogroups.com Website: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CALBIRDS Listowners: mailto:CALBIRDS-owner AT yahoogroups.com For vacation suspension of mail go to the website. Click on Edit My Membership and set your mail option to No Email. Or, send a blank email to these addresses: Turn off email delivery: mailto:CALBIRDS-nomail AT yahoogroups.com Resume email delivery: mailto:CALBIRDS-normal AT yahoogroups.com Subject: Harris's Hawk Jacumba?? From: "toddeasterla" <teasterla AT comcast.net> Date: Fri, 24 May 2013 04:48:24 -0000 Can anyone tell me if the Harris Hawks are still being seen in the Jacumba area please. Please reply offline if you feel the need. Thanks! Todd Easterla Rancho Cordova, Ca. ------------------------------------ Unsubscribe: mailto:CALBIRDS-unsubscribe AT yahoogroups.com Website: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CALBIRDS Listowners: mailto:CALBIRDS-owner AT yahoogroups.com For vacation suspension of mail go to the website. Click on Edit My Membership and set your mail option to No Email. Or, send a blank email to these addresses: Turn off email delivery: mailto:CALBIRDS-nomail AT yahoogroups.com Resume email delivery: mailto:CALBIRDS-normal AT yahoogroups.com Subject: Fw: Two Peregrine Falcons in DWTN Riverside From: mgurbada909 AT earthlink.net Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 13:16:16 -0700 (GMT-07:00) > I've been spotting one bird or the other for the past couple weeks, realizing they were differnet individuals, but this morning I finally saw both Peregrine Falcons, perched together on the Robert Presley Center (County Jail building) in downtown Riverside. >> >> The falcons are sticking to the east side of the building, either exposed on a ledge, or peeking out of the louvers. >> >> Breeding is to be watched for, but observing the birds is tricky, due to the sensitive area they have chosen to hang out, surrounded by federal, state, and local govt buildings. If you haul out binos anywhere in this area, you can expect to be approached by a variety of security officers. Mike Gurbada [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ To Post a message, send it to: inlandcountybirds AT eGroups.com To Unsubscribe, send a blank message to: inlandcountybirds-unsubscribe AT eGroups.com Subject: Re: unrecognized bird in a nest From: "Sally M. Walters" <bajaowl AT gmail.com> Date: Tue, 21 May 2013 16:04:16 -0700 A Western or recently renamed "Pacific flycatcher." SallyWalters & DonSchmoldt Sacramento County, Ca BajaOwl AT Gmail.com On May 21, 2013, at 3:03 PM, "sjondur" wrote: > There is a nest under a roof overhang in San Diego County CA. > Shown in this b/w picture: > https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/41838587/somebird.png > A bird sleeps there during the night. (At 9:17PM eyes were open, at > 10:56 eyes were shut. )During the day it is actively flying in and out > every 5-10 minutes. It takes the bird less than a second to jump out and > fly and when it returns it lands on the beam and jumps faster than the > blink of an eye into its position. > It does not move at all when it is in the nest. It is completely > stiff.(When it is sleeping the head moves around a little bit like it is > breathing.) > Can anyone tell what species this is just from the head? > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Unsubscribe: mailto:CALBIRDS-unsubscribe AT yahoogroups.com Website: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CALBIRDS Listowners: mailto:CALBIRDS-owner AT yahoogroups.com For vacation suspension of mail go to the website. Click on Edit My Membership and set your mail option to No Email. Or, send a blank email to these addresses: Turn off email delivery: mailto:CALBIRDS-nomail AT yahoogroups.com Resume email delivery: mailto:CALBIRDS-normal AT yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: unrecognized bird in a nest From: "Willick, Doug" <doug.willick AT aecom.com> Date: Tue, 21 May 2013 22:13:56 +0000 The setting, nest and what we can see of the bird (eyering, head shape, boldly and completely pale lower mandible, etc.) suggests to me a Pacific slope Flycatcher. Doug Willick Orange, CA -----Original Message----- From: CALBIRDS AT yahoogroups.com [mailto:CALBIRDS AT yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of sjondur Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2013 3:04 PM To: CALBIRDS AT yahoogroups.com Subject: [CALBIRDS] unrecognized bird in a nest There is a nest under a roof overhang in San Diego County CA. Shown in this b/w picture: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/41838587/somebird.png A bird sleeps there during the night. (At 9:17PM eyes were open, at 10:56 eyes were shut. )During the day it is actively flying in and out every 5-10 minutes. It takes the bird less than a second to jump out and fly and when it returns it lands on the beam and jumps faster than the blink of an eye into its position. It does not move at all when it is in the nest. It is completely stiff.(When it is sleeping the head moves around a little bit like it is breathing.) Can anyone tell what species this is just from the head? [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Unsubscribe: mailto:CALBIRDS-unsubscribe AT yahoogroups.com Website: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CALBIRDS Listowners: mailto:CALBIRDS-owner AT yahoogroups.com For vacation suspension of mail go to the website. Click on Edit My Membership and set your mail option to No Email. Or, send a blank email to these addresses: Turn off email delivery: mailto:CALBIRDS-nomail AT yahoogroups.com Resume email delivery: mailto:CALBIRDS-normal AT yahoogroups.com Subject: unrecognized bird in a nest From: "sjondur" <sjondur AT yahoo.com> Date: Tue, 21 May 2013 22:03:52 -0000 There is a nest under a roof overhang in San Diego County CA. Shown in this b/w picture: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/41838587/somebird.png A bird sleeps there during the night. (At 9:17PM eyes were open, at 10:56 eyes were shut. )During the day it is actively flying in and out every 5-10 minutes. It takes the bird less than a second to jump out and fly and when it returns it lands on the beam and jumps faster than the blink of an eye into its position. It does not move at all when it is in the nest. It is completely stiff.(When it is sleeping the head moves around a little bit like it is breathing.) Can anyone tell what species this is just from the head? [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Unsubscribe: mailto:CALBIRDS-unsubscribe AT yahoogroups.com Website: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CALBIRDS Listowners: mailto:CALBIRDS-owner AT yahoogroups.com For vacation suspension of mail go to the website. Click on Edit My Membership and set your mail option to No Email. Or, send a blank email to these addresses: Turn off email delivery: mailto:CALBIRDS-nomail AT yahoogroups.com Resume email delivery: mailto:CALBIRDS-normal AT yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: Possible Blue Jay (Mendocino) From: "brdnrd59" <shrikethree AT gmail.com> Date: Mon, 20 May 2013 04:56:08 -0000 This afternoon I managed to track down the source of the calls. It turned out to be a poorly-heard and somewhat atypical White-breasted Nuthatch. Well, mystery solved and lesson learned. I apologize for any inconvenience my report may have caused anyone. Ken Burton Willits --- In CALBIRDS AT yahoogroups.com, "Ken Burton" wrote: > > Two days ago at dusk, I heard what sounded like a BLJA across the street from 751 E. Hill Rd. in Willits. I dismissed it, figuring I must’ve been mistaken. At dawn this morning, I heard it several times again, initially just north of the Dripworks plant on Sanhedrin Circle and then at the original location. I've been unable to confirm it visually and still could be mistaken, but it doesn’t sound like anything else I can think of. There are mockingbirds in the area, but a NOMO in Willits mimicking a BLJA somehow seems even more unlikely than an actual BLJA. I hope others can get out there and look for it. Recorded calls might help. Traffic and construction noise are pretty bad there, so very early morning would be best. > > Ken Burton > Willits > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > ------------------------------------ Unsubscribe: mailto:CALBIRDS-unsubscribe AT yahoogroups.com Website: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CALBIRDS Listowners: mailto:CALBIRDS-owner AT yahoogroups.com For vacation suspension of mail go to the website. Click on Edit My Membership and set your mail option to No Email. Or, send a blank email to these addresses: Turn off email delivery: mailto:CALBIRDS-nomail AT yahoogroups.com Resume email delivery: mailto:CALBIRDS-normal AT yahoogroups.com Subject: Mendocino Pelagic Trip From: John Sterling <jsterling AT wavecable.com> Date: Sun, 19 May 2013 21:53:00 -0700 Just returned from a pelagic trip off Ft. Bragg organized by Karen Havlena for the local Audubon group. I co-led the trip with Todd Pterodroma Easterla and Rob Fowlerope Fowler. It was a bit rough and choppy out there so not too much fun, but the highlights were a subadult Brown Booby that came right to the boat, called a bunch and joined the gull flock coming to chum for a few minutes. Soon afterward Easterla spotted a Black Tern coming up to the stern and then a Laysan Albatross swooped in for a good look. This was all before 9:30 am and we could have returned then without missing more than an afternoon Fork-tailed Storm-Petrel. Photos are on my website at www.sterlingbirds.com click on Photo Gallery tab, then on Recent Photos Gallery John Sterling VVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVV 26 Palm Ave Woodland, CA 95695 530 908-3836 jsterling AT wavecable.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Unsubscribe: mailto:CALBIRDS-unsubscribe AT yahoogroups.com Website: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CALBIRDS Listowners: mailto:CALBIRDS-owner AT yahoogroups.com For vacation suspension of mail go to the website. 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