A third cycle NAZCA BOOBY was photographed on the boat "Thunderbird" out of Daveys Locker in Newport Beach, CA last night (18 NOV). The bird landed on the boat at sea and stayed on the boat into the harbor. The boat returned to sea at 9pm on 18 NOV and is due to return to harbor at 4am Monday morning 20 NOV. Local searches of the surrounding area this morning were unsuccessful. A belated report of a SWALLOW-TAILED GULL was posted to Facebook today with previously unidentified photos. The bird was photographed with Western Gulls and was reported to be on Bodega Head (Bodega Bay), CA on October 5th 2017. Jeff Bray Irvine, 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'.