California eBirds

Okay, so maybe the first post of this isn't quite so momentous and inciteful as one might hope, but rest assured I have several such entries in the Draft section on their way to production. In the meantime, I found a fun website: www.ebird.org, discovered while poking around the LA Audubon Societies' web offerings.

This morning I ventured out to my first SoCal birding expedition which was indeed an Audubon Society birdwalk. We met in a park (one which was new to me - precisely the reason to participate in such birdwalks) a bit west of here - Upper Franklin Canyon Reservoir. We walked around for a few hours and saw a good 18 species, as outlined in my new ebirds profile.

The highlight was a pair of Hutton's Vireos building a nest only a few feet from one of the roads. The day turned warm and summery, a nice kick-off to spring in LA.