Posted in News, Sightings, Web Updates on Nov 16th, 2009 Comments Off
We have a new addition to the BFS Bird List! On Saturday, November 14, and Monday, November 16, a Virginia Rail (Rallus limicola) was seen among the cattails on the south side of pHake Lake. This small, chicken-like shore bird frequents freshwater marshes, where it most often remains hidden in dense vegetation. [...]
An injured Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias) has apparently taken refuge at the field station lake. Whether this is a past visitor (Cathy McFadden at Harvey Mudd College has sighted one somewhat recently) or a new arrival is unknown. I first noticed it last Friday, October 30th while conducting brush and cattail clearance [...]
I previously posted several photos of a California ground squirrel (Otospermophilus beecheyi) interacting with one of our ground-based remote cameras. The two photos below show a California thrasher (Toxostoma redivivum) exhibiting the same curiosity. Perhaps it is the shape of the camera or minor light reflection off the lens glass (actually plastic). [...]
Our hidden trail camera captures a Great Egret (Ardea alba) fishing off one of the islands in pHake Lake.
Posted in News, Sightings, Web Updates on Oct 25th, 2009 Comments Off
We have a new addition to the BFS Bird List! On Sunday, October 25, a Sage Thrasher (Orescoptes montanus) was seen hopping down the road on the eastern side of pHake Lake (photo below).
The Sage Thrasher is the smallest thrasher. It has a brownish-gray back, prominent dark streaking on white underparts, thin white [...]
Posted in News on Oct 21st, 2009 Comments Off
The BFS plant list has been updated.
The update includes taxonomic changes, additions and deletions of taxa, new photos and links to specimens at the Rancho Santa Ana and UC Riverside herbaria.
As with all flora and fauna lists, expect additional modifications in the future. Some families need to be revisited and expanded or [...]
Posted in News, Web Updates on Sep 27th, 2009 Comments Off
The BFS website now has an embedded feed from this blog, so new posts will now automatically appear on the BFS Home Page (www.bfs.claremont.edu).
Posted in News on Sep 23rd, 2009 Comments Off
Another fire week is upon us and it didn’t take long for breakouts near Fillmore and another in Norco. The NOAA has now extended the time frame for triple digit temps and single digit humidities from Tuesday-Thursday to Tuesday-Sunday. Surely more fires will be set in the next few days, hopefully not anywhere near BFS. [...]
Posted in News on Sep 21st, 2009 Comments Off
I have previously posted various photographs by an inexpensive “trail cam” made by Wildview (one “bubba cam” and one “Xtreme 2″). The Xtreme model replaced the earlier bubba cam. The price of $80 remains the same, but one can disable the flash on the newer model. These cameras operate on infrared heat sensing to activate [...]
Posted in News, Web Updates on Sep 13th, 2009 Comments Off
Monthly bird survey records for the Bernard Field Station (2001-present) are now available on eBird!
‘eBird’ is an online checklist program launched in 2002 by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and the National Audubon Society. eBird is free and available to anyone, although to get the most out eBird’s features, you may want to register [...]