Red-necked Grebe | Inca Dove | White-winged Dove | Pectoral Sandpiper | Solitary Sandpiper | Red-throated Loon | Brown Pelican | Western Cattle-Egret | CRESTED CARACARA | Tropical Kingbird | THICK-BILLED KINGBIRD | White-throated Sparrow | Green-tailed Towhee | Ovenbird | Northern Waterthrush | Black-and-white Warbler | Tennessee Warbler | Chestnut-sided Warbler | Palm Warbler | Pine Warbler | Black-throated Green Warbler | Summer Tanager | Indigo Bunting
We will be leading a Southern Sierra Nevada Owl Prowl July 3-6 Friday to Monday (departure day). Three nights of owling, (and days of birding) SWEEEETTTT!! We have been leading this trip for 20 years or so. If you can’t bear to stay up after midnight, or sleep in a bit, please reconsider.
John Schmitt, illustrator of the National Geographic Field Guide will join us as a co-leader.
February and early March offered typically pleasant weather, with many continuing rare birds and a handful of new ones, as well as the arrival of a few Neotropical migrants. By late March these migrants were becoming more obvious and widespread, with some already on territory. Breeding activity for resident birds was underway well before that.
White-winged Dove | Pacific Golden-Plover | Sabine's Gull | Common Tern | Nazca Booby | Neotropic Cormorant | Yellow-crowned Night-Heron | Zone-tailed Hawk | Purple Martin | Clay-colored Sparrow | Lapland Longspur | Northern Waterthrush | Lucy's Warbler | Virginia's Warbler | Tennessee Warbler | Northern Parula | Blackpoll Warbler | Canada Warbler | Bobolink
Spotted Dove | White-winged Dove | Pacific Golden-Plover | Stilt Sandpiper | Semipalmated Sandpiper | Sabine's Gull | Common Tern | Neotropic Cormorant | Yellow-crowned Night-Heron | Zone-tailed Hawk | Eastern Kingbird | Purple Martin | Green-tailed Towhee | Northern Waterthrush | Lucy's Warbler | Virginia's Warbler | Magnolia Warbler | Summer Tanager | Painted Bunting
I am witness to some especially exciting hawk activity in the backyard this morning, along with a circus of dark-eyed juncos, mockingbirds, Black Phoebes, California Towhee’s, house finches, and squirrels. The hawk startles an adult squirrel, who has been camping out on the squirrel-proof feeder, sphinxlike, for nearly half an hour, into a sudden and urgent leap to safety in the neighbor’s magnolia grandiflora. The feeder swings madly back and forth from the shock.
From the time I was a teenager, the Northern cardinal has held a special place in my heart. When my family was forced to move from Los Angeles to the mid-west when I was 15, I was heartbroken to leave my home. However, the first time I saw a bright red male Cardinal on a black iron fence against the stark white snow, I felt a sense of hope, renewal and peace. I cannot explain why. It was just a natural, emotional and spiritual response to this unique and beautiful bird in such a desolate, barren setting.
INSIDE THIS ISSUE, Vol. 88 No. 1 Sep–Oct 2021
Island Hopping: Birding the U.S. Virgin Islands, By Lisa Freeman; The Baldwin Hills Greenhouse Program Research Projects, 2020-2021 school year: What If We Had A Field Trip and Nobody Could Attend?, By Cindy Hardin; Birds of the Season - August 2021, By Jon Fisher; Grand Appreciation For All Things Natural, By Rose White; Long Live The Queen, By Michael H. Lester; The Circus Is In Town, By Michael H. Lester; The Velocity Master, By Richard Knight; We Have a Birdbath, By Susan Lapham; The Los Angeles Cardinal, By Rachelle A. Arslan;
The Western Tanager is the chapter newsletter of the Los Angeles Audubon Society and has been published continuously since 1934. Originally published in print and mailed to each member, beginning with the January/February 2006 issue (Vol. 72 No. 3), the Western Tanager has been published online as PDF issues. For older issues, please visit the archives at: https://thewesterntanager.org/
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