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Chirp,
My friend, Marion Hill and I recently attended the San Diego Bird Festival. Congratulations to the organizers for a terrific festival.
We were pleased to go on three field trips {and were scheduled to go on the pelagic trip that was unfortunately cancelled}, all led by great folks and excellent birders. Thanks to all the leaders, volunteers, Jennifer, and SD Audubon. Though we are generally not listers, we keep track of species seen when on a trip. For our week in San Diego County, we identified 141 species, including 12 life birds. Please follow the links below to view images of some of these birds. If we got any identifications wrong, please inform.
My Flickr album from our week in San Diego …
https://www.flickr.com/photos/146696747@N03/albums/72157713442749547
My personal website ….
http://www.douglaslbrownphotography.com/
Marion’s Flickr page ….
https://www.flickr.com/photos/147611851@N07/
cheers, Douglas Brown, Marion Hill
Bellingham, Wa.
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We found a 1st-spring male Summer Tanager (red head and breast,
lots of yellow mixed with red on the body) this morning in the tall,
partly dead pine tree at the corner of Dudley and Silvergate in Point
Loma. (The tree had lots of other birds, including a Red-breasted
Nuthatch.)
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Sara Mayers
Point Loma (San Diego)
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Was out for our afternoon walk up Corral Canyon Dr. when I noticed a couple of Cassin's Kingbirds in a tree overhead. On second glance, they turned out to be Western Kingbirds and were immediately joined by about 10 more. First Western Kingbirds I recall seeing in the neighborhood, although the open hillsides above our housing development are good WEKI habitat. This group was almost certainly Just Passing Through. Not a particularly exotic sighting, but I'll take what I can get these days.
John Walters
Bonita, CA
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Susan Smith
Seiurus Biological Consulting
Del Mar, CA
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Lots of birds enjoying the quiet central Coronado Beach this morning. Two big groups of ~90 surfbirds each, feeding at the waterline, accompanied by a good handful of red knots, a few willets; about 25 godwits keeping to themselves. Two groups of ~15 royal terns, with a few elegant terns causing trouble at the edges of the group. ~200 sanderlings strewn all along the surfline. A group of 15 scoters off the (shuttered) Hotel Del rocks, and a couple of rafts of bright white dots way out at sea. No fulmars. A 'rare' day with about 300x the usual avian population.
Lisa Heinz
Coronado
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Richard Cuthbertson
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Hi all there were 5 dead Fulmars on Cardiff beach today Thursday…..also one dead sea lion
that`s the most I`ve seen since the big fulmar die off about 15 years ago
Cardiff beach is open if you can find a parking place on the street parking lots are closed parking on street will be non existent if the surf is good………or even fair
stay safe
steve brad
leucadia
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It has been suggested that this bird is a female Violet-green swallow, which can be quite dusky. That makes more sense for this time of year!
Nancy Christensen
Ramona
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