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BIRD TALK: WILD TURKEYS AND TURKEY VULTURES
By Greg Dunne November 16, 2011 (Harbison Canyon) -- It’s November, the month when we all enjoy turkey at Thanksgiving. So this edition of Bird Talk is on the wild turkey...
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BIRD TALK: THE WHITE-CROWNED SPARROW
By Greg Dunne January 4, 2012 (Lake Murray) -- The Sparrow is not exactly an exotic or glamorous bird, but it’s one with which we are all familiar. This...
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BIRD TALK: MANDARIN DUCKS SIGHTED AT SANTEE LAKES
By Greg Dunne January 16, 2012 (Lindo Lake) -- The latest poser for my Canon was this beautiful Mandarin Duck on January 14. On a cold, cloudy Saturday morning at the water’s edge at Lindo Lake it...
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BIRD TALK: THE REGAL OSPREY
By Greg Dunne February 14, 2012 (Lake Murray) -- One of the royalty members of the skies in the bird world is the Osprey. The king of raptors may go...
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BIRD TALK: THE AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN
By Greg Dunne March 27, 2012 (San Diego’s East County)-- You might ask what a Pelican is doing inland at any of these East County Lakes: Lake Murray,...
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BIRD TALK: THE DOUBLE-CRESTED CORMORANT
By Greg Dunne April 27, 2012 (Lake Jennings) –The Cormorant is a silly bird. That’s what I named my favorite photograph of the Cormorant, which I...
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BIRD TALK: THE BLACK CROWNED HERON
By Greg Dunne June 26, 2012 (San Diego’s East County)--Although the Black-Crowned Night Heron is mostly nocturnal and not commonly seen by the casual...
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BIRD TALK: THE ANNA'S HUMMINGBIRD
By Greg Dunne August 8, 2012 (Lake Jennings)--I am going to make an assumption here, but I believe that the Hummingbird is everyone’s favorite backyard...
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BIRD TALK: THE CALIFORNIA VALLEY QUAIL
By Greg DunneSeptember 24, 2012 (Alpine)--The California State Bird is the California Valley Quail. Over the past two seasons, I have had the pleasure of having a covey of California Quail living in my...
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BIRD TALK: RARE BIRDS IN EAST COUNTY
By Greg DunneNovember 15, 2012 (San Diego’s East County)--We have our share of rare bird sightings now and then in our East County. The three I am going to talk about are the Greater White-Fronted...
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BIRD TALK: THE CATUS WREN
By Greg DunneFebruary 21, 2013 (Lake Jennings) -- Many birds call both California and Arizona their home. Although our state bird, the California Quail, crosses over into other states, it does not...
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BIRD TALK: BULLOCK’S ORIOLE
By Greg DunneMarch 16, 2013 (Lake Murray) -- Spring has sprung, warm weather is here and the wild Ramona Lilac is in bloom all over the hills in the East County. It is the time of year to keep a keen...
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BIRD TALK: THE WESTERN BLUEBIRD
By Greg DunneJune 22, 2013 (Alpine)--“I'm a bluebird, I'm a bluebird I'm a bluebird, yeah, yeah, yeah,” to quote Paul McCartney. Just last week our “children” left the nest here in Alpine, our...
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BIRD TALK: NESTS - HOMES FOR BIRDS
By Greg DunneJuly 24, 2013 (San Diego’s East County) – Bird nests can be hard to observe. We usually just stumble across them out in nature. One place you can always see a large variety of Egret and...
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BIRD TALK: MIGRATORY BIRDS
By Greg DunneDecember 17, 2013 (San Diego’s East County) – Our County has many migratory birds. This week, I’m highlighting two of them: the Northern Shoveler Duck (although a few will stay year...
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BIRD TALK: MT. FORTUNA’S WRENTIT
By Greg DunneJanuary 24, 2014 (Mission Trails) -- Instead of being glued to the sofa and TV watching championship football games to see who will be going to the Super Bowl, I got a big pay-off with a...
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BIRD TALK: THE ELUSIVE BLUE-GRAY GNATCATCHER
By Greg DunneMarch 15, 2014 (Cowles Mountain)--The Blue-Gray Gnatcatcher is a small songbird living here in our East County that reminds me of the Wrentit. It mainly reminds me of the Wrentit because...
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BIRD TALK: THE COMMON HOUSE FINCH & NOT SO COMMON RELATIVES
April 21, 2014 (San Diego’s East County) --There is a staggering estimated population of up to 1.4 billion House Finches across North America. If the birding scientific estimates are accurate, that...
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BIRD TALK: THE GREAT BLUE HERON
By Greg Dunne August 8, 2014 (Lake Murray) --Always dazzling when you see them with their long S-shaped necks, usually standing motionless, they look as if...
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BIRD TALK: THE COMMON RAVEN
By Greg Dunne August 10, 2014 (San Diego’s East County)--The Raven has such an undeserved reputation--always associated with darkness, despair, death. Right...
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