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A little ways to go but Scope city in Costa Mesa Orange county have or used to have a pretty good selection. http://www.scopecity.com/showrooms.cfm?pn=Best+Stores+to+Buy#Costa%20Mesa Have fun and welcome to Birdforum

There are quite a few large solar projects approved and being built mostly in the deserts of southern california that together once built will produce about 7-8 times the output of altamont. Theres a mandate to produce 33% renewables by 2020 thats driving a lot of this. Although I think all the...

There appears to be some confusion as to dates, its listed as November 14th here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Year#cite_note-TBYRef4-4

These days even our local supermarket has signs not allowing you to tie your horse outside and you can forget riding in the car park. Although i did see one guy with an unfeasibly large sombrero riding his horse in the car park, but probably had just been to the liquor store and probably didn't...

I just came out of the cinema to see it, must have been about 8 people total in a Southern California matinee but the weather was great outside, finally cooled down to the 90's. I thought it was great, very nicely done with a good mix of birds, people and scenery to appeal to everyone. Even...

I think he's referring to the Kern river flooding the entrance way to the Kern audubon reserve. http://kern.audubon.org/ Looks like you can walk in though so can't be too bad

Pinnacles national monument should be a good bet as it was one of the release sites.

Big Morongo should be good I assume you have their website http://www.bigmorongo.org/ Make sure you hit the next door local park Covington which usually has a pair of Vermillion flycatchers and often better birds than the reserve itself. I was there a few weeks ago and there's loads of nice...

http://fog.ccsf.cc.ca.us/~jmorlan/county.htm Check out Joe Morlans site and click on appropriate counties you'll be travelling through to get some detailed info.

Few links you might find useful http://www.socalbirding.com/home.html http://shearwaterjourneys.blogspot.com/ http://www.shearwaterjourneys.com/index.shtml http://www.angelfire.com/ca5/pelagics/CALENDAR.html You could also try posting to some local ca birding group lists if you want...

You might want to ask your question or keep checking this group as there are regular updates from the Salton Sea on there http://groups.yahoo.com/group/inlandcountybirds/ David

I would definitely go for the Western Sibley, lovely little guide and designed to be portable. Joe Morlans site is a good general guide for California http://fog.ccsf.cc.ca.us/~jmorlan/county.htm Just click on each county map for specific details per county. There's also some birding trails...

Good to see as well, Iolo's got a great way of presenting Strange that they repeated Sundays night program again on Monday, I was looking forward to a new program not one i watched last night

I'd recommend getting the Schram "A birders guide to southern California" I know there is a section on Anza Borrego in there. One area thats good especially in migration time is as you come into the park from Julian direction theres a campground and a spring and it acts as a migrant trap in the...

http://iowbirds.awardspace.com/Gallery/Insects/GlanvilleFlit239WheelersBay220510.jpg a week ago near Ventnor, Isle of Wight from Derek Hales site http://iowbirds.awardspace.com/IOW.htm Much nicer on the Island any day of the year, hope you make it over next year

If near the coast probably an Allens

They must be quite common around San Diego, I wonder who introduced them. http://www.birdforum.net/showthread.php?t=52940 You're photo is better than the one in the above

Depending on where you're going the smaller Eastern/Western field guide versions of the large Sibley are very good. The larger Sibley is quite a large tome.

There were similar reports at the same place last year over quite a long period but no photos were obtained as there have been this year.