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Birdwatching tour company based in Los Angeles. Tours can be single or multi-day in greater Los Angeles and Southern California.

03/22/2025

A fun morning guiding in the Antelope Valley with a returning client from Maine. We successfully saw and heard (and recorded) LeConte's Thrasher (which was our goal). The first birds we found were paired up and not vocalizing so I found us another bird to record. Other highlights included plenty of Bell's Sparrows, a rare Lark Bunting (that we found in a random field) and a number of migrating Sage Thrashers.

03/03/2025

Any day of guiding with a much sought after White-headed Woodpecker is a good day. This cutie is battling it out in my opinion with Lewis's Woodpecker as the best US woodpecker. We had about five on the day and knocked off a clients nemesis bird in the process.

04/21/2024

Today was an enjoyable one with a repeat client from Michigan. Highlights included LeConte's Thrasher, Tricolored Blackbird, Townsend's Solitaire, Clark's Nutcracker and White-headed Woodpecker. I only really had time to photograph this Bald Eagle though.

03/18/2024

The Los Angeles River. Beautiful birds, less than beautiful scenery. I found this lovely (and rare) pink washed Franklin's Gull along the river on Saturday. Other highlights on the day including Western, Summer and Hepatic Tanager and Dusky-capped Flycatcher as well as some introduced target species like Swinhoe's White-eye, Red-whiskered Bulbul and Pin-tailed Whydah.

03/04/2024

A magical California Condor moment was a highlight of today's guiding. We spent half-an-hour with thirteen birds, so close that you felt like you could almost reach out and touch them.

02/23/2024

A fun day guiding on Thursday which required some quick thinking and local expertise after winter rains made higher elevations inaccessible due to mud and rock slides on mountain roads. In the end we still managed to have a great day birding and dig out a few montane species at lower elevation: White-headed Woodpecker, Steller's Jay etc. Other highlights included Golden Eagle, Prairie Falcon, Bell's Sparrow and this self found Lark Bunting. Probably the rarest bird I've discovered while guiding clients (apart from the time we found the 4th record of Gray-capped Cuckoo for Panama).

02/19/2024

A possible new species to look for on a visit to SoCal? There's a proposed split of the western elegans subspecies of Red-shouldered Hawk from the eastern birds and an elevation to a full species. Here in Los Angeles the birds are typically found in riparian areas or dense suburban "woodlands".

I'm looking forward to some more guiding later in the week and will be keeping my eyes peeled for this stunning raptor. It's a particularly good time to find this species as they are very vocal right now and displaying as we head into breeding season.

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