The gray hawk was seen well on the telephone lines over the entrance to Seaside Gardens nursery on Via Real about 12:00 noon. Shortly after informing a cluster of birders on Santa Claus Lane of its location and their departure to find it, the bird was seen flying low over Santa Claus Lane being mobbed by a few crows until it dropped out of sight behind the main cluster of businesses near the large cypress and Canary Island pine. About 1:00 p.m., Joe Morlan and I saw the hawk fly from the east into the eucalyptus trees behind the Rincon Beach Club where it was observed and photographed over 5-10 minutes when it flew west parallel with the railroad tracks. Joe, Eric Weir and I refound the bird sitting on the short sign in the vacant lot behind the chain link fence between the cluster of businesses and the purple clothing store. After a few minutes, the bird flew east parallel with the railroad tracks. Bruce Henderson Camarillo, CA |
v1.35 - 11/22/22 - Finally rewrote code to handle new Groups.IO web structure v1.30 - 01/05/16 - Revamped cloud logic, optimized database queries, linked to eBird rarities. v1.23 - 12/08/11 - Added direct link to CBRC records. v1.22 - 12/03/11 - Corrected GMT offsets on dates. Added last 5 posts at top. v1.21 - 11/24/11 - Added direct link to range map for NA birds. v1.2 - 11/23/11 - Greatly improved graphing technology - separates month vs. year by posts. Added species auto-complete functionality. v1.14 - 11/22/11 - Added cloud bubble for common thread topics. v1.13 - 11/22/11 - Added integrated photos where available. v1.12 - 11/22/11 - Added multiple input boxes for additional refinement, negative search criteria (eg. -keyword). v1.11 - 11/22/11 - Added banding code, species look-up. Also direct link to recent eBird observations. v1.1 - 11/22/11 - Added 'date' functionality. Shows top 'month/year' combinations for a query. Restrict results to that 'month/year'. v1.0 - 11/21/11 - Initial version coded. Currently archiving 'lacobirds' and 'calbirds'.