I photographed the Santa Ana River Ruff in 2013 and every year since 2016. Unfortunately I was out of town when it was found a few weeks ago.
In some years it only hung around a few days, other years a month or more. I went to the Lincoln bridge area and ran into Shawn O'Neill who told me it was seen upstream from the first waterfall hanging out with some Stilts. I first found it here (33.840801, -117.858109) at 1230 and it was still there at 130 when I left.
Besides the Stilts there was single Dowitcher. I biked past the area around 330 and it was slightly closer to the shore (33.8408630, -117.857974).
My photos today (and those back to 2103) can be found here
