Pomona Valley Audubon - Southern California Local Birding Locations! Claremont Colleges & area

The Claremont Colleges with their long established trees and plantings harbor migrants and winter visitors and offer a quiet productive walk for local birders year and day long. Street sidewalks are public property.

Summer tananger (first year male) seems to be spending the 01-02 winter in the Oak Park Cemetary (about 1/4 north of I-10, east of Indian Hill Blvd. and off Mills Ave.)

Audubon Christmas Count 2001 special birds included Western Tananger (eucalyptus north of Harrison between Harvard and College) and Townsend's Warbler in pines on Dartmouth near Honnold Library (check the grassy areas around library for Chipping Sparrow).

The redwoods and oaks of the Pomona College Quad (between College and Big Bridges Auditorium) have warblers, robins, juncos, etc. with a Hawk and Merlin occasional fly thru.

The Liquid amber and pine trees of Dartmouth Ave., Foothill Blvd. and Harvey Mudd College often yeild wintering sapsuckers, siskins, goldfinch, nuthatches and the occasional crossbill. The oaks and telephone poles north of first street will often host a Lewis's Woodpecker, if there is one in the area.

The grassy areas of the Puppy Park and baseball fields of College Park (off College Ave. just south of First Street) are usually home to a tiny flock Chipping and Lark Sparrows in winter.

Parrots (present in Village area until mid 90's) have not been seen in resent years.

San Antonio Wash Settling Ponds - Located just west of Montclair Plaza is a series of four ponds. The lowest is just south of the I-10 freeway and can be accessed from Palos Verdes street off Mills Ave. The northern three ponds can be seen from San Jose, Moreno and Arrow Highway. In winter these ponds, if full, have a good variety of ducks. Hooded Mergansers, often present on the pond below I-10 most winters, have moved to ponds north of I-10 due to cleaning and reshaping of southern pond.

Gray Catbird --- See Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Gardens.

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