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An all-American Bittern was sighted on the east shore of SBWR's lake (due east 
of the island) 

this Friday morning from 9:15 - 9:30 a.m.  

Bob Pann
Cheviot Hills

This morning at 8:15 I flushed an adult, female Yellow-bellied 
Sapsucker from the same Orchid Tree (at unit 5554) that harbored last 
winter's YBSA (LACoBirds #4201), and today's bird most likely is the 
same individual.  Later, at 9:45, the same tree had a male Red-naped 
Sapsucker that has been in this area since Tuesday.  Will these two be 
able to coexist, sharing the same tree???

Village Green is near the SW corner of Rodeo Rd and S. La Brea in LA.  
The closest parking to unit 5554 is on Hauser Blvd that forms the 
western boundary of Village Green (you can also park on Coliseum St, 
the southern boundary).  The most direct access to 5554 is via a 
walkway (look for nearby home security signs labeled Centurion and 
ADT) about 50 yards north of Coliseum St.  This morning a fire-gutted 
car was parked near this access spot.  LACoBirds #4201 has alternative 
directions.

Don Sterba
Culver City

- RBA
* California
* Los Angeles RBA
* October 18, 2007
* CALA0710.18

- Birds mentioned

Crested Caracara
Franklin�s Gull
Poorwill
Blackpoll Warbler
Black-throated Blue Warbler
Palm Warbler
Painted Redstart
Clay-colored Sparrow
Baltimore Oriole


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- Transcript

This is the Los Angeles Rare Bird Alert for Thursday October 18, 2007. Please 
report 

sightings to Jon Fisher at  or via e-mail to JonF60 AT hotmail.com

A CRESTED CARACARA was seen briefly flying over the 10 Freeway at Rosemead 
Blvd. on October 14. 


A FRANKLIN�S GULL was at Hermosa Beach on October 18. It was seen just north of 
the 5th Street lifeguard tower. 


POORWILLS were detected at several locations this past week with birds at Peck 
Road Water Conservation Area in Monrovia, Malibu Lagoon and Madrona Marsh in 
Torrance. 


A BLACKPOLL WARBLER continued at Sand Dune Park in Manhattan Beach through 
October 14. 


A BLACK-THROATED BLUE WARBLER continued at Holmby Park through October 13. The 
park is on Comstock, north of Wilshire near Westwood. The bird has been in the 
firewheel tree just off Comstock. 


Another BLACK-THROATED BLUE WARBLER was near Zuma Beach on Ocober 15. The bird 
was along 

the Zuma Beach access road immediately east of Busch Drive and just north of 
the Pacific Coast Highway. 


The PAINTED REDSTART has returned to Bonelli Park in San Dimas. The bird is 
near Restroom #8. 


A CLAY-COLORED SPARROW was at Peck Road Water Conservation Park in Monrovia. 
This bird was near the Restrooms. Just west of here was a PALM WARBLER. Both of 
these birds were reported on October 14. 


Another PALM WARBLER was at Santa Fe Dam on October 15. It was seen on the dirt 
mounds across from Parking Area #5. 


A BALTIMORE ORIOLE was at Forest Lawn Glendale off Glendale Ave. on October 14. 
The bird was initially seen in Section B then flew uphill to the Iona Section, 
thus if still present it could be anywhere in the area. 


Another BALTIMORE ORIOLE was at Bonelli Regional Park on October 12. The bird 
was near Group 

Picnic Area 1 and 2 on the north side of the lake.

This report is sponsored by the Los Angeles Audubon Society.

- end transcript

Jon L Fisher
Glendale, CA
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Today I had a Swainson's Thrush skulking around the grounds outside my
apartment.
 
Good birding
 
Patrick Santinello
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Today there was a first winter Franklin's gull in the
huge gull flock that gathers just north of the 5th
Street lifeguard tower.
Martin Byhower

Today at 9:30 am the Painted Redstart was observed in the oak tree
near restroom #8 at Bonelli Park in San Dimas.  The oak tree is the
same one it has favored for the past 2 years.  Also in the area
between restroom #7 and restroom #8 was a Red-breasted Sapsucker and
at least 2 Brown Creepers.

Rod Higbie
San Dimas

I was in LA from NYC and ran out to the VA hospital when I first read the
report. Cops came within 15 minutes and hassled me. I had to wander around
in a neighborhood I was completely unfamiliar with for almost a half hour
before I could find a cab that would take me back downtown. In the 15
minutes I was able to bird, I was amazed at the amount of bird activity
along the main road. The flycatcher was located as I was leaving the area
near where it had been reported earlier.

-M


-- 
Michael J. Shanley
Exhibits Technician
Staten Island Children's Museum
 x156 

Hi all,

While walking our dogs tonight, my mom and I found a dead bird lying
in the middle of the street. On closer inspection, although it was
difficult to tell because there were so many ants, it appeared to be
Sora. I'm guessing this bird was migrating when it died. This was very
near the corner of Lake Ave. and California Blvd in Pasadena, and was
completely out of habitat. Sorry to you taxidermists, but the specimen
was too decayed and ant-covered to be preserved.

John Garrett
Pasadena

Hi Andrew and Everybody,

1) Has the Painted Warbler not (yet) returned to Bonelli Park?
2) Has anybody been checking Almansor Park in Alhambra for Eurasian Wigeon & 
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher? 

Tom

>From: Andrew Lee 
>Date: 2007/10/15 Mon PM 08:14:25 CDT
>To: lacobirds AT yahoogroups.com
>Subject: [LACoBirds] 10/15 Santa Fe Dam, Palm Warbler

>This morning there was a Palm Warbler at Santa Fe Dam in Irwindale.  It was
>feeding along the dirt mounds across from parking lot 5.  There were 2
>Horned Larks and 2 Loggerhead Shrikes in the area too.  A Greater
>White-fronted Goose and Cackling Goose remain with the feral flock.  Six
>"wild" Greater White-fronted Geese (3 adults & 3 juveniles) fed separately
>and later joined the flock.  Harriers made a good showing with 4 cruising, 3
>Osprey were waiting for the next trout plant and a Peregrine decided to
>scatter everything.  Barn, Tree and Violet-green Swallows were flying about
>with still good numbers of Vaux's Swift mixed in with the White-throated.
>The park was like one giant Yellow-rump convention.
>
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This morning there was a Palm Warbler at Santa Fe Dam in Irwindale.  It was
feeding along the dirt mounds across from parking lot 5.  There were 2
Horned Larks and 2 Loggerhead Shrikes in the area too.  A Greater
White-fronted Goose and Cackling Goose remain with the feral flock.  Six
"wild" Greater White-fronted Geese (3 adults & 3 juveniles) fed separately
and later joined the flock.  Harriers made a good showing with 4 cruising, 3
Osprey were waiting for the next trout plant and a Peregrine decided to
scatter everything.  Barn, Tree and Violet-green Swallows were flying about
with still good numbers of Vaux's Swift mixed in with the White-throated.
The park was like one giant Yellow-rump convention.

Andrew Lee
West Covina


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Hermits Warbler

I had a Hermits Warbler in the Arbor Vitae in my driveway just short
of noon today. Also present was Townesend's and Yellow-rumped warbler.
I've had Wilson's, MacGillavray's, and Townesend's in addition to the
regular Orange-crowned and  Yellow-rumped Warblers who visits the
Hummingbird feeders. This Morning I heard Northern Flickers calls and
saw them hanging high up on the Slender Fan Palms in the neighborhood
just as they did last October.

Jonathan Coffin
Inglewood, Ca

That place down the hill from the Playboy Mansion.

No sign of the bird Sunday, as far as I know. I left at 5:00 p.m. Nice park, 
lots of nice birds. Great potential for lots of good migrants & vagrants. If I 
ever go birding there in the future, I'm taking a teapot, lawn chair, and 
table, like all of those old Russians in the park. I thought I had died and 
woken up in Petropavlovsk. 

Tom

>From: jimmoore91390 
>Date: 2007/10/12 Fri PM 08:02:17 CDT
>To: LACoBirds AT yahoogroups.com
>Subject: [LACoBirds] Black-throated Blue Warbler still at Hombly Park

>Barbara Johnson and I saw the Warbler between 8:00 & 8:30 this 
>morning.  It was frequenting the same Firewheel tree near the sidewalk 
>off Comstock Ave.  The Firewall tree is small with dense foliage and 
>red berries.  It is adjacent to a large sycamore nearer the sidewalk.
>
>The bird often flies in and out of the tree.  Usually it skulks behind 
>the leaves giving only partial views.  Be patient, it will eventually 
>show itself.
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>I did not see Wanda Dameron, so expect her report referred to 
>yesterday's sighting.
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653 S. Indian Hill Blvd., #C
Claremont, CA 91711
U.S.A.
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In China today, Bill Gates is Britney Spears. In America today, Britney Spears 
is Britney Spears-and that is our problem. 

-Thomas Friedman in "The World Is Flat", page 265

Somebody came into Pomona Cemetery, and replaced all of the birds. There has 
been a large influx of Robins and Cassin's Kingbirds, and the Chipping Sparrow 
and Western Bluebird flocks were gone, today. The Cassin's Kingbirds were 
singing (not simply calling "Cha-Pew!") their heads off. Also new were a 1st 
winter male Bullock's Oriole and a Red-breasted Nuthatch. A flock of DC 
Cormorants flew over. Multiple R Sh Flickers. 


Oak Park Cemetery in Claremont had a scatering of western warblers and Hermit 
Thrushes, but a large number of White-crowned Sparrows. 


Tom

Thomas Miko 
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653 S. Indian Hill Blvd., #C
Claremont, CA 91711
U.S.A.
 N,  W

home:
cell:   
work:

In China today, Bill Gates is Britney Spears. In America today, Britney Spears 
is Britney Spears-and that is our problem. 

-Thomas Friedman in "The World Is Flat", page 265

14 Oct 2007

A few things at DeForest Park today:

A singing Plumbeous Vireo was in sycamores south of the tennis courts.

A calling Red-breasted Nuthatch moved through the area near the 
basketball court and playground.

A Hammond's Flycatcher continues from yesterday in the park area north 
of the rec center.

Kevin Larson
Lawndale

Hi birders,

This afternoon at Peck Rd Park in North El Monte there was Clay-colored
Sparrow hanging out with the Chipping Sparrow flock in the picnic area next
to the restrooms.  There was also a Plumbeous Vireo in the picnic area,
replacing a Cassin's Vireo that had been there previously.  Out in the open
area as one walks toward the channel, there was a Gray Flycatcher and a
western race Palm Warbler.  At the north end of the southern lake, I
accidently flushed a Common Poorwill, and at the patch of grass at the north
end of the northern lake at least 2 Blue Grosbeaks still linger.  Earlier in
the morning there were 2 or 3 Plumbeous Vireos at the Group Picnic Area
(along the eastern portion) at Whittier Narrows. No Caracara :)

A belated report, last Friday (10/12) the adult male Baltimore Oriole made
an appearance at the Group Picnic Area 1 & 2 at Bonelli Park near the exit
to the north shore.  It appears that the north shore kiosk is FREE during
weekdays at Bonelli now.

Some more fun photos
http://s90.photobucket.com/albums/k267/gnatcatcher/


Andrew Lee
West Covina


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Birders-

Sun 14 Oct

This morning there was a male Baltimore Oriole at Forest Lawn Memorial 
Park in Glendale, off Glendale Ave. near San Fernando Rd. (TG P.594 E1) 
It was in Section B along the main lower road past the offices/mortuary 
building, then flew uphill toward the Iona Section and I lost track of 
it.

Richard Barth
West Hollywood  

Sun 14 Oct

Present for the eighth day, the Blackpoll continues at Sand Dune.

Carol Selvey spotted a Hammond's Flycatcher near the silk oak.

Kevin Larson
Lawndale

It might be good to check out the Legg Lake area where
there is plenty of habitat for this one.  I'm heading
there now.. Gonna troll the lakes and north of the 60
by the soccer fields.

Raul Roa
Whittier, CA



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Hello LA County Birders...

14 October 2007

This morning at about 10:15 there was a female Black-throated Blue Warbler near 
Zuma Beach. There is an access road to Zuma Beach on the right hand side of 
Bush Drive just north of the Pacific Coast Highway. The bird was along this 
access road between the "Caution Speed Bumps" sign and the overhanging blue 
"Vehicle Clearance" sign which is just before the PCH overpass. The bird was 
mostly in the vegetation on the left side of the access road. 


Parking here is problematic. I parked on Westward Beach Road south of PCH (free 
parking there) and walked across the streambed and then to the right and under 
the PCH bridge to the spot where the bird was found. 


Jon Fisher
Glendale, CA

 

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LA County birders,

Todd McGrath asked me to post this note. He was traveling
east bound on Interstate 10 at Rosemead Blvd. and saw
a Crested Caracara cross the freeway headed south. If
you are in the south San Gabriel Valley you may want to
watch for it.

Mike San Miguel
Arcadia CA


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Hi all

We looked for the above mentioned warbler for a couple of hours beginning 
around 9 AM today. There were several other birders looking as well. Wouldn't 
you know, as soon as everyone else left, & we had circled the entire park 3 
times, it showed up in the previously referred to Firewheel tree! That was 
around 11 AM. Sorry guys! 


Lori & Mark Conrad
Hermosa Beach

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LA County Birders:

I just got word that today the Governor signed AB821 banning lead 
ammunition in Condor country. 

This is a great victory, especially for Assemblymember Pedro Nava of 
Santa Barbara who authored the bill, and for Audubon California who 
spent a great deal of time and resources lobbying for the bill.

In shock,

Garry George
Los Angeles Audubon

Birders-

Sat 13 Oct

This morning there was a Plumbeous Vireo in the triangular strip park 
across Los Feliz Blvd. from the Los Feliz Golf Course (along the 
L.A.River).  It foraged with a small flock of warblers, mostly in 
sycamores. 

Richard Barth
West Hollywood

Greetings!
The Black-throated Blue Warbler was present this morning ( 8:00-8:30 a.m.)
at Holmby Park in the same area, although the fire wheel tree's "berries"
looked more like flowers to me.  The tree is about 10-12 feet tall and right
near the sidewalk.  The bird was also moving through the nearby sycamores.  
Regards,
Ed
Ed Stonick
Pasadena, CA
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Truly bizarre sighting this morning - see my, er, blog: 
http://gridlockbirding.blogspot.com/ 


At least 22 Snowy Plovers on the beach. Lots of passerine movement too, with 
several species 

of warblers, Warbling Vireo, etc. in the sycamores and mulefat. I was there 
briefly, so who 

knows what I missed.

Dan Cooper
Los Angeles
www.cooperecological.com

P.S. The parking lot was completely empty, and here at the peak of fall 
migration, at 9 on a 

Saturday morning, not a single other birder. ???

The only noteworthy that I had from 7:30 to 8:30 at Sand Dune Park was the 
continuing fall plumage Blackpoll Warbler. It was along the middle walkway. 


Thomas Miko 
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Tamás) 


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thomas_miko AT hotmail.com

653 S. Indian Hill Blvd., #C
Claremont, CA 91711
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In China today, Bill Gates is Britney Spears. In America today, Britney Spears 
is Britney Spears-and that is our problem. 

-Thomas Friedman in "The World Is Flat", page 265

Hi,

If you're thinking of going to Palmdale, Lancaster Sewage Ponds, or Galileo, 
you ain't goin dere today, my friends. Last night 15 big rig trucks crashed 
into each other and burned in the tunnel where the 5 and 14 split. They're 
waiting for the fuel to finish burning before they look for bodies. It happened 
in the southbound 5 section, but CalTrans is worried, because that's underneath 
the northbound 5 & 14. 


Of course, you can always go east to the 15, and  go up that way.

Tom

Thomas Miko 
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thomas.miko AT verizon.net
thomas_miko AT hotmail.com

653 S. Indian Hill Blvd., #C
Claremont, CA 91711
U.S.A.
 N,  W

home:
cell:   
work:

In China today, Bill Gates is Britney Spears. In America today, Britney Spears 
is Britney Spears-and that is our problem. 

-Thomas Friedman in "The World Is Flat", page 265

No luck with the sparrow this morning. I did try twice to post at 7AM 
and 8AM but it didn't work.

                                         John Ivanov

This is the third time I've tried to post to the server this morning, 
sorry the first 2 hasn't posted. No luck with the sparrow so far.

                                               John Ivanov 

Hi All
 
     The past 40 minutes I have been looking at what I have deceided is 
a cassin's in my front yard. The bird was trying to sleep under my 
porch. I am of course going to look for it at sun up. All are welcome, 
the bird had been feeding on my lawn most of the time. My address is 
14418 grevillea ave in Lawndale just s. of LAX. Exit 405 go east on 
rosecrans for a ~mile turn right on grevillea. Phone . 

                                           John Ivanov 

Birders and Digiscopers:

LOS ANGELES AUDUBON HOSTS PHOTOSHOP WORKSHOP   
Saturday, October 20, 2007 | 12:00 pm to 5:00 pm, with a break

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Barbara Johnson and I saw the Warbler between 8:00 & 8:30 this 
morning.  It was frequenting the same Firewheel tree near the sidewalk 
off Comstock Ave.  The Firewall tree is small with dense foliage and 
red berries.  It is adjacent to a large sycamore nearer the sidewalk.

The bird often flies in and out of the tree.  Usually it skulks behind 
the leaves giving only partial views.  Be patient, it will eventually 
show itself.

I did not see Wanda Dameron, so expect her report referred to 
yesterday's sighting.

Jim Moore
Agua Dulce

Birders-

Fri 12 Oct

Don Sterba reports that the Blackpoll Warbler is still at Sand Dune 
Park in Manhattan Beach.  Early afternoon today (Fri) he saw it along 
the main north-south walkway where it starts uphill opposite the large 
silk oak.

Richard Barth
West Hollywood

- RBA
* California
* Los Angeles RBA
* October 11, 2007
* CALA0710.11

- Birds mentioned

Common Ground-Dove
Lewis�s Woodpecker
Vermilion Flycatcher
Red-eyed Vireo
Pygmy Nuthatch
Winter Wren
Black-throated Blue Warbler
Blackpoll Warbler
Clay-colored Sparrow
Vesper Sparrow
Rose-breasted Grosbeak
Orchard Oriole


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Coverage:  Los Angeles County, Ventura County


- Transcript

This is the Los Angeles Rare Bird Alert for Thursday October 11, 2007. Please 
report 

sightings to Jon Fisher at  or via e-mail to JonF60 AT hotmail.com

A presumed COMMON GROUND-DOVE was along the LA River in the Sepulveda Basin on 
October 7. However Ruddy Ground-Dove was not eliminated in the ID. 


A LEWIS�S WOODPECKER was seen flying over Exposition Park on October 9.

A VERMILION FLYCATCHER was on the grounds at the VA Hospital in Los Angeles on 
October 11. The hospital is at the northeast corner of Wilshire and San 
Vicente. The bird was perching on wooden stakes on the southwest lawn. 


A RED-EYED VIREO was at the Village Green Condominiums in Los Angeles on 
October 10. The bird was near unit #5332. The condos are located on the south 
side of Rodeo between La Cienega and LaBrea. This is private property but 
courteous birders are welcome. 


Four PYGMY NUTHATCHES were in Griffith Park (away from expected areas of 
occurrence) on October 7 and a WINTER WREN was in a private area of Griffith 
Park on October 10. 


A male BLACK-THROATED BLUE WARBLER was at Holmby Park near Westwood from 
October 10-11. The park is on Comstock north of Wilshire. The bird was in a 
firewheel tree and also in a nearby sycamore. 


A BLACKPOLL WARBLER was at Sand Dune Park in Manhattan Beach from October 7-9. 
It was seen in the northeast corner and in the center of the park. 


A CLAY-COLORED SPARROW was on the south side of Vanderlip Park in Palos Verdes 
on October 8. 


A VESPER SPARROW was at Augustus Hawkins Natural Park in south central Los 
Angeles on October 6. 


A ROSE-BREASTED GROSBEAK was at Oak Park Cemetery in Claremont on October 11.

An ORCHARD ORIOLE was at Banning Park in Wilmington on October 6. The bird was 
in the southwest part of the park. 


This report is sponsored by the Los Angeles Audubon Society.

- end transcript

Jon L Fisher
Glendale, CA
JonF60 AT hotmail.com

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Dave Moody just emailed me about a Common Poorwill at Madrona Marsh, in 
Torrance. He literally kicked it up, and it flew off, landing nearby. He said 
that if it hadn't flown, he would have never even known it was there. 


Thomas Miko 
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Tamás) 


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In China today, Bill Gates is Britney Spears. In America today, Britney Spears 
is Britney Spears-and that is our problem. 

-Thomas Friedman in "The World Is Flat", page 265

I just got a heads-up email that guards at this site have been hostile 
to birders recently, so maybe just scan from outside the gate if you 
go for this bird (it should be easily visible from San Vicente).

Dan Cooper
Los Angeles
www.cooperecological.com

After looking for a couple of hours, Larry Schmall came along and 
spotted him sitting and feeding rather quietly in a tree about 1/3 the 
distance into the park along Comstock where bunches of us saw him at 
approximately 11 am.    Several of us also looked for the Red-eyed Vireo 
afterwards with no luck--didn't even get the 2 flocks from previous day

Wanda Dameron
Canoga Park


richardbarth38 wrote:

> Birders-
>
> Wed 10 Oct
>
> Early afternoon I had a male Black-throated Blue Warbler at Holmby Park
> near Westwood, on Comstock Ave. north of Wilshire Blvd. (TG P.632 C1).
> The bird frequented a small Firewheel Tree right along Comstock Ave.
> about half way up the park. Pat Heirs came over at about 3:00 to look
> at the bird.
>
> This morning there was a Plumbeous Vireo at Ladera Park (Ladera
> Heights), moving around in sycamores etc. in the middle of the park.
>
> Richard Barth
> West Hollywood
>
>  




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I had a few minutes to kill in West L.A. this afternoon and stopped in to bird 
the hospital 

grounds, located at the northeast corner of Wilshire and San Vicente (just west 
of the 405 

Fwy.). You can enter from either Wilshire or San Vicente.

The bird was perching on wooden stakes on the southwest lawn. Nice backdrop w/ 
the 

buildings/traffic!

This is a really birdy spot, and I've been waiting for something good to turn 
up. Lots of other 

migrants around, incl. a Plumbeous Vireo, Western Tanager, BT Gray Warbler, 
etc., along with 

loads of Yellow-rumps.

The flycatcher could winter, since the habitat looks right (unkempt lawn, 
scattered trees). 


Dan Cooper
Los Angeles
www.cooperecological.com

On the other hand it�s a good thing it hadn�t succeeded in landing a shark,
as it would have had to exit with shagreen!

 

Rah

La Canada CA 91011

 

 

  _____  

From: LACoBirds AT yahoogroups.com [mailto:LACoBirds AT yahoogroups.com] On Behalf
Of Jean Brandt
Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2007 4:41 PM
To: 'Thomas Miko'; lacobirds AT yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [LACoBirds] heron-I mean pelican-I mean heron ?

 

I didn't know that Great Blue Herons ate plombs.

JB

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Subject: [LACoBirds] heron-I mean pelican-I mean heron ?

Now I've seen everything: birding Lincoln Park this afternoon (the Mandarin
Duck is gone-too weird)I saw a Great Blue heron jump out of a palm tree,
crash into the deep water like a booby, nab a humonganormous catfish, and
then swim around like a pelican, while struggling to lift up and eat the
catfish. I could see the GB Heron kicking strokes in the water, generally
swan-like in its pose and behavior. The catfish won, so the heron swam to
where the water is shallow enough, and stood up, exiting with aplomb.
Tom

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Today there were 3 Brown Creepers plus Lawrence's Goldfinch in the
area between restrooms #7 and #8 at Bonelli Park in San Dimas.  This
area is reached by entering the park from the west on Via Verde.  Park
at the first parking lot on the left after entering the park.

Rod Higbie
San Dimas 

I didn't know that Great Blue Herons ate plombs.

JB

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Subject: [LACoBirds] heron-I mean pelican-I mean heron ?

Now I've seen everything: birding Lincoln Park this afternoon (the Mandarin
Duck is gone-too weird)I saw a Great Blue heron jump out of a palm tree,
crash into the deep water like a booby, nab a humonganormous catfish, and
then swim around like a pelican, while struggling to lift up and eat the
catfish.  I could see the GB Heron kicking strokes in the water, generally
swan-like in its pose and behavior.  The catfish won, so the heron swam to
where the water is shallow enough, and stood up, exiting with aplomb.
Tom

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Now I've seen everything: birding Lincoln Park this afternoon (the Mandarin 
Duck is gone-too weird)I saw a Great Blue heron jump out of a palm tree, crash 
into the deep water like a booby, nab a humonganormous catfish, and then swim 
around like a pelican, while struggling to lift up and eat the catfish. I could 
see the GB Heron kicking strokes in the water, generally swan-like in its pose 
and behavior. The catfish won, so the heron swam to where the water is shallow 
enough, and stood up, exiting with aplomb. 

Tom

Thomas Miko 
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653 S. Indian Hill Blvd., #C
Claremont, CA 91711
U.S.A.
 N,  W

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In China today, Bill Gates is Britney Spears. In America today, Britney Spears 
is Britney Spears-and that is our problem. 

-Thomas Friedman in "The World Is Flat", page 265

 Two sapsuckers, one RED-NAPED and one RED-BREASTED (daggetti), were vying for 
the best 

sap in the elms that are located some 20 yards north of the Visitor Center at 
Malibu Creek 

State Park.   

They were observed Thursday from 10:00-10:30 a.m., October 11, 2007.

Bob Pann
Cheviot Hills 

Nice work, Christopher!

That orange at the base of its bill is interesting... I'm accustomed 
to seeing that on juvenile birds. bna.birds.cornell.edu says of the 
Black-throated Blue Warbler, "Males in their first year tend to have 
a greenish tinge to their dorsal tract feathers, and their alula 
covert is edged with green." I have a protonomalous color deficiency, 
but from what I can see the warbler in your photos has both of these 
characteristics (I had to look up what the "alula" is). It's a 
first-year male, then, right?

David Ellsworth
San Pedro, CA

At :30, Christopher Taylor wrote:
>Thanks to Richard for finding the BTBW! We both observed him all
>morning and he posed quite nicely for us after taking a bath:
>

>http://www.kiwifoto.com/galleries/birds/black_throated_blue_warbler/ 

>
>--
>Christopher Taylor
>Marina del Rey, CA
>www.kiwifoto.com

Richard and Jim Lomax refound the bird around 7:15 AM, and it 
frequented the Firewheel (see below) and a nearby Sycamore.

Jim and I could not refind the Red-eyed Vireo (LACoBirds #5092) at 
Village Green, but that doesn't mean the bird isn't there.

Don Sterba
Culver City

--- In LACoBirds AT yahoogroups.com, "richardbarth38"  
wrote:
>
> Birders-
> 
> Wed 10 Oct
> 
> Early afternoon I had a male Black-throated Blue Warbler at Holmby 
Park 
> near Westwood, on Comstock Ave. north of Wilshire Blvd. (TG P.632 
C1).  
> The bird frequented a small Firewheel Tree right along Comstock 
Ave. 
> about half way up the park.  Pat Heirs came over at about 3:00 to 
look 
> at the bird.
> 
> This morning there was a Plumbeous Vireo at Ladera Park (Ladera 
> Heights), moving around in sycamores etc. in the middle of the 
park.
> 
> Richard Barth
> West Hollywood
>

All,

 

I had a young male Rose-breasted Grosbeak at Oak Park Cemetery in
Claremont this morning. It was working the eastern edge of the property
then flew to the southwest corner and into the neighborhood. I also had
a Brown Creeper along the eastern edge in a large Ash tree.
Yellow-rumped Warblers are now back in large numbers with over 85 being
counted. Townsend's Warbler and Black-throated Gray Warblers were even
at 12 each. 

 

Also looks like a good year for Lawrence's Goldfinch with three flyovers
today. They have been seen and heard everyday out here in La Verne, and
at the cemetery since the last week of September. 

 

Good Birding.

 

Michael J. San Miguel, Jr.
La Verne, CA

 

 

 



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Thanks to Richard for finding the BTBW! We both observed him all 
morning and he posed quite nicely for us after taking a bath:

http://www.kiwifoto.com/galleries/birds/black_throated_blue_warbler/


-- 
Christopher Taylor
Marina del Rey, CA
www.kiwifoto.com



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Sent: Wednesday, Oct 10, 2007 at 04:36 PM (PDT)
Subject: [LACoBirds] Black-throated Blue Warbler  AT  Holmby Park, Plumbeous  AT  
Ladera [13K] 


Birders-

Wed 10 Oct

Early afternoon I had a male Black-throated Blue Warbler at Holmby Park 
near Westwood, on Comstock Ave. north of Wilshire Blvd. (TG P.632 C1).  
The bird frequented a small Firewheel Tree right along Comstock Ave. 
about half way up the park.  Pat Heirs came over at about 3:00 to look 
at the bird.

This morning there was a Plumbeous Vireo at Ladera Park (Ladera 
Heights), moving around in sycamores etc. in the middle of the park.

Richard Barth
West Hollywood 

Birders,

 

An immature (1-2 year old) Masked Booby came in to rehab at the
International Bird Rescue and Research Center in San Pedro after having
come aboard a sportfishing boat somewhere between Santa Catalina Island
and Long Beach on 29 September.  When the bird failed to depart the boat
on a round-trip from Long Beach to Catalina and back the next day (30
September) it was picked up by Animal Control and brought to IBRRC.  The
apparently healthy bird was measured and photographed, given a few
hearty meals, banded, and prepared for release (just ask Bob Beckler how
hard it could bite!).  Yesterday, 9 October, it was flown to Santa
Catalina Island and released on the west side of the island at Indian
Head (Ben Weston Beach).  It immediately flew out to sea.

 

Should any Masked Boobies of similar age appear in the region over the
coming months, it should be possible (from the presence of a band, and
from plumage details) to determine if it is the same individual.  So
keep your eyes open.  Many thanks to Susan Kaveggia for obtaining
important documentation for this record.

 

KLG

 

Kimball L. Garrett

Ornithology Collections Manager

Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County

900 Exposition Blvd.

Los Angeles CA 90007

 FAX

kgarrett AT nhm.org

 



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Hi,

     Hazard Park today had multiple Mtn Chickadees and a Gray Flycatcher.

 Lincoln Park: not much, but a male Mandarin dark was my first ever at this 
park, in years of birding there. Also, the Ross' Goose has been gone all 
summer. Could she actually migrate to the arctic, and return, or do allegedly 
feral Ross' geese not do such things. This bird appears to disappear every 
summer. 


Tom



Thomas Miko 
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In China today, Bill Gates is Britney Spears. In America today, Britney Spears 
is Britney Spears-and that is our problem. 

-Thomas Friedman in "The World Is Flat", page 265

Birders-

Wed 10 Oct

Early afternoon I had a male Black-throated Blue Warbler at Holmby Park 
near Westwood, on Comstock Ave. north of Wilshire Blvd. (TG P.632 C1).  
The bird frequented a small Firewheel Tree right along Comstock Ave. 
about half way up the park.  Pat Heirs came over at about 3:00 to look 
at the bird.

This morning there was a Plumbeous Vireo at Ladera Park (Ladera 
Heights), moving around in sycamores etc. in the middle of the park.

Richard Barth
West Hollywood 

Around  hr this afternoon (10 Oct) a Red-eyed Vireo cooperated
for four of us (me, Judy Bass, Johanna Dawes, Susan Kaveggia) at The
Village Green (s. side of Rodeo, between La Cienega and La Brea).  It
fed openly in the sycamores (and a few other trees) around the sw. edge
of the main central green area (roughly in front of Unit # 5332); it was
working its way west. Other migrants/winter visitors included Willow (1)
and Hammond's (1) flycatchers, Warbling Vireo (1), Black-throated Gray
(2), Townsend's (7), Yellow (2), Wilson's (2), Orange-crowned (8) and
Audubon's (15) warblers, Western Tanager (1) and Ruby-crowned Kinglet
(7).

 

Kimball

 

Kimball L. Garrett

Ornithology Collections Manager

Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County

900 Exposition Blvd.

Los Angeles CA 90007

 FAX

kgarrett AT nhm.org

 



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