Date: 6/19/25 9:42 am From: <tgmiko...> via groups.io <tgmiko...> Subject: [LACoBirds] Claremont "vagrant", Black Swifts
Ahoy, 1. I had a singing uncooperative (is there any other kind?) Fox Sparrow in suburban Claremont at the intersection of Bucknell and Doane this morning. That is one of the few birds that other people have had at Wheeler Park that I have never had up until this morning. Becky Turley had one here vaguely 10 years ago and it's been bothering me ever since. 2. Whenever I walk Duke around 6:00 or 7:00 in the morning, I do not see Swinhoe's White-eyes in the park but I am reliably seeing them when I take him for a walk at 8:00 a.m. they are consistently in a small eucalyptus tree with extensive filamentous red flowers on the immediate west edge of the Vista Elementary School parking lot. (I am sure that everybody who regularly walks their neighborhood or some local park has observed that you consistently get a different set of birds at 6:00 a.m. versus 7:00 a.m. versus 9:00 a.m.) The Allen's Hummingbirds are consistently very aggressive towards the Swinhoe's White-eyes. 3. There will be a Black Swift walk organized by Pomona Valley Audubon Society on Sunday, July 13th. It is held this late on purpose to make sure the weather is horrible and miserable and hot. Info available online. Bring bug spray. Seriously, do not leave home without bug spray. I'm going to do another scouting trip somewhere in the next 4 days. If you want to attend this trip, plan on being there for hours and standing around with no bathroom. It is a steep walk up a dirt road in the heat. https://pomonavalleyaudubon.org/field-trips/ Thomas Geza Miko Claremont, LA County 909.241.3300 " ... there's a relationship between attention span and morality. I think that, if you shorten people's attention span a great deal, you are left with only the attraction of power."--Marcel Ophuls 1978
