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Link to prior announcement here.
Temperature: Likely mid-to-high 70’s.
High tide of 3.33 ft. is at 9:43 am!
Dilly-dallying? We still have a few openings.
To reiterate a few rules:
- If I checked your Covid card last month, I won’t check it again.
- For all others, bring your covid card. Yes, I have a list.
- Trip has a few openings. Send me an email if you want to be on it.
- Email to Chuck: misclists@verizon.net.
- Masks are not required but are appreciated.
- Temperature likely to be in mid-to-high 70’s.
- Expect “A flyȝght of swalowes!”
The prior rules, still in force
- Registration required, max. 30 people. No drop-ins, please.
- Bring your Covid-19 Vaccination Record Card and a photo ID card. They will be checked. If you do not have two shots and a booster recorded on your card, you must wear a mask while you are with the group.
- If we checked your Covid card last month, we won’t check it this month.
- Bring your own binoculars.
- All Field Trips are designed to maximize your safety, while also enjoying birds. CDC Guidelines are followed. Participants are encouraged to observe safe distancing, and face coverings are required for those who are not fully vaccinated (2 shots + booster) for Covid-19.
- Participation in social activities, such as field trips, comes with an inherent risk of exposure to infectious disease. Prospective participants should self-evaluate or discuss with their doctor if their participation merits this risk. If you’re sick or experiencing any symptoms that indicate you might be sick, STAY HOME.
- The 10am Children & Parents Walk is NOT reinstated. Not yet, anyway.
- For general questions or help registering, contact Chuck: misclists@verizon.net
- Additional information on our permanent Covid-19 blog page:

A fish for a dish, is that what you wish? | YouTube
[Posted by Chuck Almdale]
A female Belted Kingfisher captures a fish and prepares her meal. Watch what happens to the railing. Sound included.
Malibu Lagoon Monthly Field Trip: Sunday, 26 June 2022
Rules for Malibu Lagoon trip are
unchanged from last month.
The following rules will be in effect:
- Registration required, max. 30 people. No drop-ins, please.
- Register to Chuck: misclists@verizon.net, not to this email or blog.
- Masks are not required but will be appreciated.
- Bring your Covid-19 Vaccination Record Card and a photo ID card. They will be checked. If you do not have two shots and a booster recorded on your card, you must wear a mask while you are with the group.
- If we checked your Covid card In March-May, we won’t check it this month.
- Bring your own binoculars; telescope too if you have one.
- All Field Trips are designed to maximize your safety, while also enjoying birds. CDC Guidelines are followed. Participants are encouraged to observe safe distancing, and face coverings are required for those who are not fully vaccinated (2 shots + booster) for Covid-19.
- Participation in social activities, such as field trips, comes with an inherent risk of exposure to infectious disease. Prospective participants should self-evaluate or discuss with their doctor if their participation merits this risk. If you’re sick or experiencing any symptoms that indicate you might be sick, STAY HOME.
- The 10am Children & Parents Walk is NOT reinstated.
- For general questions or help registering, contact Chuck: misclists@verizon.net
- Additional information on our permanent Covid-19 blog page:

The wintering and most of the migrant birds are gone, but the nesting birds are out and about feeding their young, and the gulls and waders who couldn’t be bothered to leave will be lounging around. The sun and sand are warm, the mullet may be jumping, and the tide is 3.33′ high at 9:43 am! Well…medium high anyway.
Some of the great birds we’ve had in June: Brant, Gadwall, Red-breasted Merganser, Pied-billed Grebe, Pelagic Cormorant, Great & Snowy Egret, Black-crowned Night-Heron, White-tailed Kite, Red-tailed Hawk, Killdeer, Willet, Long-billed Curlew, Ruddy Turnstone, Heermann’s Gull, Caspian, Royal & Elegant Tern, White-throated Swift, Anna’s & Allen’s Hummingbird, Black Phoebe, Cassin’s Kingbird, Rough-winged, Barn and Cliff Swallow, Northern Mockingbird, Common Yellowthroat, California Towhee, Song Sparrow, Red-winged Blackbird, Great-tailed Grackle, Lesser Goldfinch.
It will be, as they so often say: “A flyȝght of swalowes!”

Adult Walk 8:30 a.m., 4th Sunday of every month. Beginner and experienced, 2-3 hours. Species range from 40 in June to 60-75 during migrations and winter. We move slowly and check everything as we move along. When lagoon outlet is closed we may continue east around the lagoon to Adamson House. We put out special effort to make our monthly Malibu Lagoon walks attractive to first-time and beginning birdwatchers. So please, if you are at all worried about coming on a trip and embarrassing yourself because of all the experts, we remember our first trips too. Someone showed us the birds; now it’s our turn. Bring your birding questions.
Children and Parents Walk: Still canceled due to Covid-19 pandemic, immunization and masking problems, especially with young children.

Map to Meeting Place
Directions: Malibu Lagoon is at the intersection of Pacific Coast Highway and Cross Creek Road, west of Malibu Pier and the bridge. Look around for people wearing binoculars.
Parking: Parking machine recently installed in the lagoon lot: 1 hr $3; 2 hrs $6; 3 hrs $9, all day $12 ($11 seniors); credit cards accepted. Annual passes accepted. You may also park (read signs carefully) on either of PCH west of Cross Creek Road, on Cross Creek Road, or on Civic Center Way north (inland) of the shopping center. Lagoon parking in shopping center lots is not permitted (i.e. they tow cars).
Prior checklists:
2021: Jan-July, July-Dec
2020: Jan-July, July-Dec 2019: Jan-June, July-Dec
2018: Jan-June, July-Dec 2017: Jan-June, July-Dec
2016: Jan-June, July-Dec 2015: Jan-May, July-Dec
2014: Jan-July, July-Dec 2013: Jan-June, July-Dec
2012: Jan-June, July-Dec 2011: Jan-June, July-Dec
2010: Jan-June, July-Dec 2009: Jan-June, July-Dec
[Chuck Almdale]
[Posted by Chuck Almdale]
Ryan Terrill was still sick Wednesday and couldn’t give Los Angeles Audubon Society his presentation. LAAS says they will try for September, 2022. Many asked, thus the explanation.
Unfortunately for SMBAS, the interesting impromptu talk given by Richard Crossley on Tuesday night was not taped. It’s now irretrievably surfing the electromagnetic wave heading towards Alpha Centauri, 4.3 light years away, and to points beyond. So it goes.