Greetings, We walked the in-laws around this lake yesterday afternoon (Tues 5 Jan 2021), had some very nice birds. Ring billed gulls, double-crested cormorants, 6 ibis standing near the cormorants (backlit, not sure of species ), black phoebes, Cassies kingbirds, pied-billed grebes, American coots, 3 Egyptian geese, 2 snowy egrets, ruddy ducks, great blue heron, Brewers blackbirds, mallards, domestic duck, & martins (species). The highlight was a beautiful male vermillion flycatcher. It roosted on a London plane tree on the peninsula south of the footbridge, best observed from the path on the east side of the lake. It often flew out & back, no doubt flycatching chironomid midges that are emerging from the lake. Cheers, -Bob Allen bugbob@... Mission Viejo, CA Author, Wildflowers of Orange County and the Santa Ana Mountains XsMAX |
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'.