All,
The list of missing species continues to shrink but it still has some relatively common birds. Here are species found in previous years that we haven't got so far in 2023:
# Brant
# Wood Duck
# Canvasback
# Greater Scaup
# Black Scoter
# Common Goldeneye
# Hooded Merganser
# Gambel's Quail
# Chukar
# Horned Grebe
# Common Ground-Dove
# White-winged Dove
# Ridgway's Rail
# Sandhill Crane
# Ruddy Turnstone
# Red Knot
# Ruff
# Stilt Sandpiper
# Baird's Sandpiper
# Pectoral Sandpiper
# Semipalmated Sandpiper
# Pomarine Jaeger
# Parasitic Jaeger
# Scripps's Murrelet
# Cassin's Auklet
# Rhinoceros Auklet
# Sabine's Gull
# Laughing Gull
# Franklin's Gull
# Short-billed Gull
# Iceland Gull (Thayer's Gull)
# Glaucous Gull
# Black Tern
# Common Tern
# Yellow-billed Loon
# Black-footed Albatross
# Leach's Storm-Petrel
# Northern Fulmar
# Pink-footed Shearwater
# Sooty Shearwater
# American Bittern
# Least Bittern
# California Condor
# Golden Eagle
# Zone-tailed Hawk
# Ferruginous Hawk
# Flammulated Owl
# Northern Pygmy-Owl
# Burrowing Owl
# Spotted Owl
# Long-eared Owl
# Williamson's Sapsucker
# Red-naped Sapsucker
# Crested Caracara
# Prairie Falcon
# Red-masked Parakeet
# Least Flycatcher
# Thick-billed Kingbird
# Plumbeous Vireo
# Clark's Nutcracker
# Purple Martin
# LeConte's Thrasher
# Mountain Bluebird
# Varied Thrush
# Red-throated Pipit
# Evening Grosbeak
# Red Crossbill
# Pine Siskin
# Grasshopper Sparrow
# Clay-colored Sparrow
# Field Sparrow
# Brewer's Sparrow
# Harris's Sparrow
# Vesper Sparrow
# Orchard Oriole
# Baltimore Oriole
# Northern Waterthrush
# Black-and-white Warbler
# Tennessee Warbler
# Hooded Warbler
# American Redstart
# Northern Parula
# Chestnut-sided Warbler
# Red-faced Warbler
# Painted Redstart
# Summer Tanager
# Indigo Bunting
Among these, it's surprising that we haven't found ruddy turnstone or hooded merganser yet.
Has anyone seen a Wood Duck We usually find those.
There were LeConte's thrashers and Sage Thrashers along Ave. B near 60th St. West in the Antelope Valley last weekend. Has anyone checked
What about Golden Eagle We usually find some. Pine Canyon Road near Sandberg, Gorman Post Road, and Quail Lake could be good. They also turn up regularly in the San Gabriel Mountains.
Thank you for all your help,
Lance
Lance Benner
Altadena |