Orange County RBA
March 5, 2008

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RBA

* California
* Orange County
* March 5th, 2008
* CAOC0803.05

- Birds mentioned
Lewis Woodpecker
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Eurasian Wigeon
Red-naped Sapsucker
Snow Goose
Swainson Hawk
Tropical Kingbird
Ferruginous Hawk
American Redstart

- Transcript

hotline: Orange County, California
date: March 5th, 2008;  number: (949) 487-6869; compiler: Joel Weintraub. 
Sponsored by Sea and Sage Audubon Society.

Website and archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/OrCoRBA/
Please send e-mail sightings to:   JWeintraub@Fullerton.edu.
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Send reports on California Bird Record Committee Review Species sightings 
to: Guy McCaskie,  Secretary,  California Bird Records Committee   P. O. Box 
275 Imperial Beach, CA 91933-0275 The species in caps on the bird mentioned 
list (if present) are all Review Species; the committee would appreciate 
documentation on their occurrence in Orange County. There is a website for 
discussing birds/birding in Orange County California.

Please visit:  http://groups.yahoo.com/group/OrangeCountyBirding.  Radio 
Codes for Birders in Orange County: channel 11 subcode 22 (national code). 
We have a new accessory website that has recent photos of rarities (when 
submitted)  and maps of some birding spots in the County, including a map of 
Huntington Central Park showing the "local" names for birding areas at: 
http://members.cox.net/orcorba/

Observers:  Neil Gilbert, Leigh Johnson, Tom Croom, Nathan Babcock, Robert 
McNab, Aaron Simon, Barry Borne.

LEWIS WOODPECKER: continuing, Irvine Regional Park around parking lot #16 
(3/4)

YELLOW-BELLIED SAPSUCKER: reported last Thursday and since at Santiago Oaks 
Regional Park,  in a large pepper tree overhanging the Santiago Creek Trail. 
"From the parking lot, take the trail across the  creek, turn left, climb up 
the short flight of wooden stairs, and  walk down the right fork of the 
trail a short distance to where the  pepper tree overhangs the trail. " 
(Also a RED-NAPED SAPSUCKER reported from the park on Rinker Grove Trail 
last Sunday)

EURASIAN WIGEON: one report last Sunday at Tri-City Park in Placentia, 
another last Thursday at the outlet of Big Canyon, Upper Newport Bay (off of 
East Bluff Dr).  A SNOW GOOSE was also reported last Thurday near Shellmaker 
Island.

SWAINSON'S HAWK: 20 reported overhead in Orange flying north on Sunday.

TROPICAL KINGBIRD: continuing at San Joaquin Wildlife Sanctuary from last 
Thurs. through Saturday between ponds 1 & 2.

FERRUGINOUS HAWK off Ortega Highway west of Tree of Life nursery.  This is a 
dangerous road and difficult to safely stop along.

AMERICAN REDSTART: continuing at Laguna Niguel Regional park by outfall dam 
(last Friday).

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