Bird Outings in Orange County, California

A Visit to San Joaquin Wildlife Sanctuary on July 18, 2014 around 4:30 produced a pair of Wilson’s Phalaropes (male and female) that were seen at Pond C.  Harsh lighting and similar red-necked phalarope plumage  made it a bit difficult … Continued

This was an unusual sighting for south Orange County.  Typically a mountain finch (such as Big Bear or as close as the Santa Ana Mountains), this bird was initially found by another fellow birder on 7-12.  I had opted to … Continued

In the past while traveling in Irvine off University Drive, I’ve seen the sign post for Strawberry Farms.  I did some investigation recently via Google Earth and explored the area beforehand.  The Reservoir is quite spacious as it resides within … Continued

In the Local Birding Spot section of this web site a new, detailed description on how to get to this Wildlife Preserve area is now list. To access the shortcut link, simply click in this post and click HERE

At the back end of the park in the protected wooded area, a very vocal Western Wood-Pewee was located and photographed.  It was interesting to note its size in comparison to the Pacific-slope Flycatcher seen moments earlier and about 15 … Continued

With migrant season upon us and the cool weather still lingering, it seemed proper to revisit this location as it had been over a year since I had last visited this park. Nothing rare to be reported excepted on this … Continued

At approximately 3:30 near Shelters 1 and 2 there was much activity to be found just before the walk bridge. More notably: a male and female Bullock’s Oriole, Western Tanagers, Wilson’s Warbler, Yellow Warbler, Yellow-rumped Warbler (white throat/Myrtle), Swainson’s Thrush … Continued

The visit to San Joaquin Wildlife Sanctuary on April 25th, 2014 was a bit less productive bird was due to gusty winds which came quite a bit of the non water fowl at bay and in hiding.  Fortunately we located … Continued

Monte Taylor and I arrived approximately 3:15pm in hopes to find several of the migrants that typically pass through this area.  Our stay was until 7 p.m. though our success was only moderate, this visit was not in vain. In … Continued

  A second visit produced greater results as the time span of the visit was longer.  This includes photos of the Calliope Hummingbird, Band-tailed Pigeons, Lark Sparrow, a California Thrasher fledgling and an Acorn Woodpecker peering out of his tree … Continued