Monthly Archives: November 2022

One white-throated sparrow, tan stripe type, feeding on seed with white-crowned sparrows in my backyard.
Arden Drive, Encinitas.

Maryanne Bache
Encinitas, CA

There is currently a verdin at the intersection of International Road and Sunset Ave along the closed road. Here:  (32.5587, -117.0753). 

Brandon Stidum
Normal Heights

At the main drip area of the Bird and Butterfly garden. Dashing amongst the toyon bushes.

Nancy Christensen
Ramona

A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song.
Chinese Proverb

Friday morning, just a little after dawn, there was a medium-bright female-type Baltimore Oriole in the blooming eucalyptus trees immediately on the east side of the main residence building at Rohr Park in Bonita. Also in the general area at least one Western Tanager and one or two wintering White-breasted Nuthatches which are annual there. At Sweetwater Reservoir there are now 10 Cackling Geese with the 150 Canadas and 110 White- frontends, of which six are minima Cacklings, which may be a new high count for the county for that subspecies, and then four are of the more expected Aleutian Cackling. Also 23 Bonaparte’s Gulls, 5 ibis, and three barn swallows with the Tree swallow flock. Uncommon or high late-season INLAND shorebirds included two Semipalmated Plovers, avocet, six Dunlin, and 350 Western Sandpipers. At Lower Otay Lake there were good counts of 38 Canvasbacks and 2,500 Coots!

Re: 2 Lapland Longspur’s at Robb Field – very west field

Minorly interesting addition to the Longspur mystery.

I was at Robb Field and Dusty Rhodes essentially all morning, 9am – 12:45pm (doh!). I checked all the fields, and saw no Longspurs. The only Horned Larks I found were adjacent to the westernmost field where John had them shortly after I left. There weren’t any Longspurs with them around 11:30 or so. I’m assuming these are the same Horned Larks that John saw the Longspurs with, which I believe means the Longspurs aren’t necessarily moving with that flock. The question is, where else are they going when they’re not at Robb Field?
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Nick Thorpe
University Heights

2 Lapland Longspur’s at Robb Field – very west field

This afternoon around 12:45 I located two Lapland Longspur’s seen together. So not sure if one of these is a continuing bird or if both are new. They were associating with Horned Larks. Today they were in the very west field near where Jim Pawlicki had one on November 6. Justyn and I had one on the 7th probably the same bird but it was in the fields directly behind the tennis courts, so obviously they move around. Today there was really no activity on the fields so no pressure for them to move. Not sure about tomorrow but I expect on Saturday and probably Sunday the fields will be used for games.

“glut” explained (White-thr Sparrow), Laplands

Thursday morning before 7 AM, a Black-throated Green Warbler was seen briefly along the Kumeyaay Lake loop trail at Mission Trails Regional Park.  The specific location was near a tall ash tree, west of the spot where the American Bittern is being seen. Lat/Long: 32.842342/-117.032809.  In addition to the warbler, the American Bittern continues on the floating vegetation at the usual spot, and the Philadelphia Vireo showed up a little before 9 AM and was seen and photographed by many.

Jeremiah Stock
Santee, CA
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Continuing in same area as yesterday, high in willows