vagrant Swinhoes White-eye!!

8:47 am

Wednesday morning I am out at Jacumba and have found a Swinhoe’s White-eye in the lerpy eucalyptus near the fire station. I can’t check my various data at home currently, but my guess is this is the farthest east record ever in Southern California?

Other highlights include “the dark lord” White crowned Sparrow, Yellow-headed Blackbird, the usual three turkeys, and the usual couple Harris’s Hawks. Only a few migrant passerines.