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Palomar Audubon Board of Director’s Position on Two Conservation Issues
The PAS Board voted unanimously on these issues at their November 2014 meeting. The positions were submitted by the PAS Conservation Committee. Oak Creek Development Project Summary of Issue: Oak Creek is a proposal for a 65-home gated residential development … Continue reading
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Bird Tally, Lindo Lake, 11/15
Here’s the final bird tally for our Lindo Lake odyssey yesterday. Highlights included a huge flock of Red-crowned and Lilac-crowned Parrots, our friendly Greater White-fronted Goose, and close-up Tricolored Blackbirds. Special thanks go to our younger birders, Trysten Loefke and … Continue reading
Lake Hodges Bernardo Bay Field Trip Results
Hi Everyone, On a very warm day and the lake just about dried up, twenty-two birders found 51 bird species. Here is our list of bird species as reported by our field trip leader, Tom Trowbridge: Gadwall American wigeon Northern … Continue reading
Top 25 Wild Bird Photographs of the Week #73
Posted by Steve Boyes of National Geographic Expeditions in Bird Watch on November 5, 2014 Asian Openbills are a distinctive stork specifically adapted to foraging around inland wetlands mainly in the Indian subcontinent and SE Asia. (Tanmoy … Continue reading
Mission Bay Flood Control Channel & Famosa Slough Trip Report
Fifteen birders enjoyed a break in the rain storms to see 59 species. Gadwall Eurasian Wigeon American Wigeon Eurasian WigeonXAmerican Wigeon Hybrid Mallard Blue-winged Teal Cinnamon Teal Northern Shoveler Green-winged Teal Lesser Scaup Bufflehead Ruddy Duck Pied-billed Grebe Horned Grebe … Continue reading
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Daley Ranch Trip Report
Birders, Here is the list. Any corrections, etc., please email me. I had forgotten one or two from the list we had made earlier in the day. Great day for Fox Sparrows, a life bird for quite a few of … Continue reading
Palomar Audubon Society Hats For Sale
A new shipment of our official ball caps has just arrived! Just in time to show your support for our local Audubon chapter. They sport our very own PAS green & white California Gnatcatcher logo, are beige in color, … Continue reading
Biking for Birds
Last Saturday, on our La Jolla Coastline field trip, we ran into the Bicycle Birder, Dorian Anderson. I think we all spoke briefly with him. What an interesting guy! Go to his website (below) and checkout his photo of our … Continue reading
La Jolla Cove Trip Report
Below is our eBird report from the Palomar Audubon session at La Jolla Cove this past Saturday. Special thanks to Stan Walens for his extraordinary birding prowess and patient explanations of our sightings. (And for his identifying the bird of … Continue reading
Lake Hodges Trip Report
21 birders ground out 61 species of birds on a slow day at Lake Hodges. Most of us were surprised at the final tally! Here is the list: horned grebe eared grebe western grebe Clark’s grebe American white pelican double … Continue reading
WATCH: Hawk Takes Out Quadcopter Drone, Reclaims the Sky
Mike Flacy, Digital Trends Oct 10, 2014 Filmed over Magazine Beach Park in Cambridge, Massachusetts, recently, a large hawk gave Amazon a reason to rethink the company’s Prime Air drone delivery initiative. YouTube user and software developer Christopher Schmidt has … Continue reading
American Bird Concervancy eNewsletter
Federal Agencies Urged to Follow Refuges and Ban Dangerous Pesticides A coalition of wildlife conservation and food safety organizations are calling federal land managers to halt the use of dangerous neonicotinoid pesticides due to harm to pollinators. Letters were … Continue reading
Big Day at Huntington Beach – Bolsa Chica Trip Report
Hi Friends, Sixteen birders met up this morning, October 4, at Huntington Beach in LA County, where we checked out the Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve along the coast, and later we birded inland at the Huntington Central Park. The weather … Continue reading
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October RIVERSCAPE – San Dieguito River Park Events
October 2014 Dear Palomar Adubon, It’s River Valley Fest time! Planning is in full swing (well, it has been for several months!) and we can’t wait to see you at the Rancho Valencia Resort & Spa on October 12th! … Continue reading
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Wildlife photographer in search of perfection
SEPTEMBER 30, 2014, 6:54 PM|Wildlife photographer Kevin Fleming is hard at work on his 27th book called “Wild America.” The research will take him across the U.S. in his endless quest for that elusive perfect photograph. Chip Reid meets … Continue reading
Whelan Lake Trip Report
Today 26 Palomar Birders consumed 48 doughnut holes and 3 quarts of pink lemonade as sustenance while they scoured the Whelan Lake Bird Sanctuary. For an early Autumn day, it was a good count: 67 Species. Of these 46 were spotted … Continue reading
Kumeyaay Lake Field Trip Results
Hi Friends, This morning, Saturday Sept 20, fourteen birders walked around Kumeyaay Lake at Mission Trails Regional Park. The weather was very pleasant and we found 45 bird species. This number is one more species than our initial count as … Continue reading