Hudsonian Godwit. San Diego River mouth, Ocean Beach, California. June 1, 2019. On Memorial Day, Monday, May 27, a Hudsonian Godwit was ...

First found on April 4th, 2019 by Jim Pawlicki, two Neotropic Cormorants were at Lake Cuyamaca for several days. I was able to visit on Apri...

I hiked around the top of the hill in the forest at Stonewall Mine for about an hour without seeing or hearing the reported Red Crossbill. T...

Slam on the breaks; back up! There it is. A Merlin. Not only that, it is a Black Merlin Falco columbarius suckleyi . This dark and heavily...

Eurasian Wigeon is a rare winter visitor with about 5-10 sightings per winter in the San Diego region. A pair (presumably the same pair?) ...

In January there was a King Tide in San Diego, appearing on the news. What, exactly, is a King Tide? Well, according to NOAA ( here ), a...

On November 23, 2018, Nancy Christensen located a Chestnut-sided Warbler at Batiquitos Lagoon. These birds breed in scrubby forests in easte...

The beach at the historic Hotel del Coronado was the picturesque site of a rare bird this winter. Ron and Shawn Miller of Wisconsin discove...

I have previously photographed Green-tailed Towhees twice in San Diego. Those photos were so poor and out-of-focus that they were unusable. ...