RBA
* California * Orange County * March 23, 2023 * CAOC23.03.23
This is the Orange County, CA weekly Rare Bird Alert (RBA) and local events summary. California Bird Records Committee (CBRC) review species are capitalized and marked with asterisks below. All documentation of review species should be forwarded to the CBRC secretary, Tom Benson, at secretary@... .
BIRDS MENTIONED
Glaucous Gull Bald Eagle Ferruginous Hawk Lewiss Woodpecker Tropical Kingbird Brown Creeper Mountain Bluebird Townsend's Solitaire Clay-colored Sparrow White-throated Sparrow Vesper Sparrow Black-and-White Warbler Tennessee Warbler American Redstart Blackburnian Warbler Palm Warbler Rose-breasted Grosbeak
A GLAUCOUS GULL was reported off Newport Pier on March 22.
A BALD EAGLE continued at Upper Newport Bay Ecological Reserve in Newport Beach this week. Another bird was at Seal Beach Naval Weapons Station on March 19. A FERRUGINOUS HAWK was reported from the Los Alamitos Joint Forces Training Base on March 17.
A LEWISS WOODPECKER continued at Irvine Regional Park in Orange around Parking Lot Q through March 17.
A TROPICAL KINGBIRD continued at Arbor Park in Los Alamitos on March 17.
A BROWN CREEPER continued at Huntington Central Park in Huntington Beach through March 18.
A MOUNTAIN BLUEBIRD continued in the field near the parking lot of the Muth Center at Upper Newport Bay in Newport Beach through March 21.
A TOWNSENDS SOLITAIRE continued along the Bell View Trail (south) in RSM/Coto de Caza/Dove Canyon on March 20.
A CLAY-COLORED SPARROW continued at Clark Regional Park in Buena Park through March 22.
A WHITE-THROATED SPARROW continued along the Salt Creek Trail in Laguna Niguel on March 21.
A VESPER SPARROW was reported from ONeill Regional Park in RSM on March 17.
A BLACK-AND-WHITE WARBLER continued at Huntington Central Park in Huntington Beach through March 17.
A TENNESSEE WARBLER was reported from a private residence in Mission Viejo on March 19.
An AMERICAN REDSTART continued at Laguna Niguel Regional Park in Laguna Niguel through March 19 in the vicinity of the water treatment plant, with another continuing at Huntington Central Park in Huntington Beach behind the amphitheater through March 19.
A BLACKBURNIAN WARBLER continued in the West Coyote Hills Tree Park in Fullerton through March 19, generally in the vicinity of the oaks behind a house with a brown and white deck off of the Rosecrans Trail from Parks Road (immediately north of Avenida del Norte).
A PALM WARBLER continued at Mason Regional Park in Irvine through March 22.
An immature male ROSE-BREASTED GROSBEAK continued at Mason Regional Park in Irvine through March 22, just east of the park entrance.
LOCAL EVENTS
For a complete up-to-date list of current field trips, please visit the webpage on Sea and Sages website: https://wp.seaandsageaudubon.org/home-sas/field-trip-2/#FTSchedule
The next Upper Newport Bay bird walk will take place on March 26 from 8:00am to 11:00am.
A bird walk will take place at Caspers Wilderness Park on March 31 from 8:00am to 11:00am.
The next San Joaquin Wildlife Sanctuary bird walk will take place on April 9 from 8:00am to 11:00am.
The next Anaheim Coves bird walk will take place on April 16 from 8:00am to 12:00pm
BIRDING WORKSHOPS AND CLASSES
None just yet but an advanced shorebirds class is planned for this spring, potentially starting in April although nothing is set in concrete yet.
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The Orange County RBA and events summary is produced weekly by Ryan Winkleman and Jeff Bray in collaboration with Doug Willick. Sightings of rare birds can be posted to the OrangeCountyBirding listserv, emailed directly to Jeff Bray ( jbray3928@... ) and/or Ryan Winkleman ( rswinkleman@... ), and/or submitted to eBird ( http://ebird.org/content/ebird ). Any supporting details (descriptions, photos, audio recordings, etc.) of rare sightings that are not already disclosed on the listserv or on eBird should also be emailed to Ryan Winkleman separately for consideration to be mentioned in the current quarterly report for North American Birds.
Those sightings that are included in this summary generally include those that are considered rare (regionally or seasonally) for Orange County based on "The Birds of Orange County: Status and Distribution" (Hamilton and Willick), "Birds of Southern California" (Garrett and Dunn), and/or more contemporary changes in local or regional status and distribution. Rarities that regularly or seasonally occur at a particular location, such as annually wintering rarities on Seal Beach National Wildlife Refuge, may or may not be included in this digest, but reports of these same species occurring at other, atypical locations throughout the county may be included. We don't include hybrids, subspecies, introduced or exotic birds, or in most cases and for no real reason, geese. All bird reports are vetted to the extent possible prior to each publication, but in the interest of sharing information, the accuracy of any given report cannot always be guaranteed, nor can the presence of any given bird for those who choose to chase after them.
Information on upcoming local events is taken largely from the Sea and Sage Audubon website ( http://www.seaandsageaudubon.org/ ). Sea and Sage Audubon is based out of the Audubon House at the San Joaquin Wildlife Sanctuary in Irvine. They sponsor a number of public field trips, special birding events, conservation lectures, and social gatherings throughout the year. Information regarding upcoming local events should be considered accurate at the time of this posting. However, for the most current information please refer to the field trip list on the Sea and Sage Audubon website at https://wp.seaandsageaudubon.org/home-sas/field-trip-2/#FTSchedule . It is also recommended that you refer to that website immediately prior to engaging in any field trip to confirm that trips are still occurring. If you know of additional upcoming events that are not sponsored directly by Sea and Sage Audubon, please email Ryan Winkleman and/or Jeff Bray for inclusion. #RBA
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Jeff Bray
Irvine, CA |