Comments on: Share Your Area’s Rare Bird Sightings

By: semillama

semillama — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 17:05:00 +0000

Here in Ohio, we just had our probable first record of Allen’s Hummingbird, which normally lives in California and migrates south. There’s also been a White-Winged Dove up in Amish country.

By: troutman

troutman — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 20:32:25 +0000

Hardly rare, but early this year my wife and I were fishing a local lake and saw a bald eagle, an osprey and two red-tail hawks. I only mention this because I’ve lived/camped/fished here >50 years and NEVER have seen a bald eagle here in San Diego county.

By: kgehrman

kgehrman — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 23:18:57 +0000

Out Of place "Vagrant" species I photographed (badly) in a La Jolla, CA famous golf course. A mated pair of Ruddy Shellduck, known in India as the Brahminy Duck. Stayed long enough to have a brood, then disappeared.

By: Aztec Raptor

Aztec Raptor — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 08:43:23 +0000

Crows (they were extinct in my area but commen in the farm areas), Brown Pelican, Sandpipers (in the pond thats near my high school and hospital),and Quaker Parrots in the northern parts of Illinois. I mostly see the crows and Sandpipers.