A SPECIAL REPORT: BIRDS

LOST AND LONELY: While swallows get the attention, a remarkable 10-year tradition continued this winter. . . . A solitary thick-billed kingbird returned to a tree in Tustin’s Peters Canyon. The species rarely ventures north of Mexico, and for a bird to return to the same place, so far outside its range, is “quite amazing,” says birder Doug Willick. Sightings of such “vagrants” are relished by bird watchers.