Date: 2/2/26 1:47 pm From: David Ellsworth via groups.io <davidells...> Subject: Re: [LACoBirds] Tropical Kingbird at Cabrillo Beach right now
Well, I see looking at eBird that this is a known bird. As is made evident by this, I do not check rare bird reports these days and prefer to find my own rarities, but if something pops out at me from the LACoBirds subject headings, occasionally I may try for it (if it's local enough). It seems to me that LACoBirds is dying though. It seems people are only posting straight to eBird, or maybe they're also posting on social media platforms that I don't use (since I don't want to support huge corporations that have way too much power over people's data). Discouraged by this and other things, I haven't even posted all the rarities and rare behaviors I've observed in the last few years, which would have been unthinkable to me in the past.
I've been seeing a kingbird at the beach from my house since December, and it may have been this bird at least some of the time, but previously when I went down to the beach to look for it, it had already flown away – and from home was too far away to identify for sure. I don't know why the thick bill didn't pop out at me before though, because this time, it did, even from this distance. (I'll have to check my records in light of this.)
David Ellsworth San Pedro, CA
On 2026-02-02 13:03:01, David Ellsworth via groups.io wrote: > Near the bathhouse (Cabrillo Beach, San Pedro), preening. Heavy bill; > extensive yellow on breast; white on chin; no pale trim on tail in > either direction. Will post footage later, but going back now with my > tripod. > > David Ellsworth > San Pedro, CA
