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Pt. Loma booby

The red-footed booby on the Pt.Loma bait barges was kind enough to fly in at 5:10 this afternoon, in time for me to get home to watch the World Series. Go Rays.

Dennis Parker
Tierrasanta
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Thick-billed Kingbird at Poggi Creek for another year!

Today, October 26th, 2020, at 2:30, the ThicK-billed Kingbird has returned to its favorite haunts in the Poggi Creek Greenbelt. Sitting in the dead branches of a big eucalyptus in the middle of the greenbelt, south of the small patch of remaining cattails.

Dan Jehl
San Diego
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new Tnnessee & Chestnut-collared, how many boobies?, continuing and miscellanea

On Tuesday the 27th, a new Tennessee Warbler was at Montgomery Waller Park in Otay Mesa, frequenting the northeast corner tipus (and possibly peppers and lerpy eucs)–same area where a Magnolia Warbler wintered back in 2016-2017. Five Cattle Egrets, now very rare along the coast in fall, were at the salt works. A Red-breasted Sapsucker and "Sooty" Fox Sparrow were at the Bird & Butterfly Garden. Aaron Gyllenhaal found a new Chestnut-collared Longspur on the high school ball fields immediately south of Nestor Park. Very flighty and moving around a bunch; sometimes with pipits and sometimes by itself.

Continuing rarities today include the Villa La Jolla Park Scarlet Tanager, Grace's Warbler, and Plumbeous Vireo and a new Palm Warbler and "Gray-headed" Junco; the Robb Field Buff-breasted Sandpiper continues; and the Red-footed Booby continues on the San Diego Bay bait barge (fide Curtis Marantz & Chris Dean).

And speaking of Red-footed Boobies…In addition to the bait barge bird since before the 23rd, a Red-footed Booby was photo'd on a fishing boat moored at the G Street commercial fishing harbor on the 20th (iNaturalist). Still working out whether it is the same individual or not from the photos. One bird looks paler than the other, but it might be the lighting.

Paul Lehman, San Diego
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Rock Wren San Elijo Lagoon.

I got good looks at a rock wren along the road west of rios Ave and east of the tracks by the water treatment plant and tunnel below the tracks. 

Geoff Veith 
Solana Beach

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Bait Barge Red-footed Booby continuing 10/26/2020

The red footed booby continues at the bait barge on Monday afternoon, October 26, 2020, and is visible from Fort Rosecrans national Cemetery on the north end. Currently sitting on one of the lighting wires above the far east bait barge. 

Dan Jehl  
San Diego   


> On Oct 25, 2020, at 10:29 AM, Eitan Altman <eitanaltman@…> wrote:
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> UPDATE: for those, like me, who are idiots and didn’t realize this, the views of the bait barges are MUCH better from the cemetery. There is a small viewpoint with a bench where there is a gap in the memorial wall running along the NE edge of the cemetery (32.6920232, -117.2443486), from which there are unobstructed views down towards the bait barge (about 1/2 the distance as from Shelter Island). Additionally you are perpendicular to the barges, making it way easier to pick out individual birds!
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> From this much easier vantage it was a piece of cake to spot and confirm that it is indeed the young RED-FOOTED BOOBY. A county bird! Somehow I had missed out on this within the county so far despite its increasing occurrences.
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> Eitan Altman
> San Carlos
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>> On Oct 25, 2020, at 10:00 AM, Eitan Altman via groups.io <eitanaltman=gmail.com@groups.io> wrote:
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>> Sunday morning, Oct 25, I was able to spot an all-brownish Booby hanging around the bait barges, scoping S from the SW end of Shelter Island. Presumably the continuing Red-footed (which was photographed on the barge yesterday evening ~5pm by Scott Terry, per eBird).
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>> At that distance (~1 mile) it was a challenge to see clear details and I only got a few brief looks in flight, so in theory I can’t rule out a juvenile Brown Booby. Every time it landed it disappeared into the dense crowd of birds on the barge.
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>> So if anyone is floating by on a boat today, keep an eye out!
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>> San Carlos
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Re: Broad-billed Hummingbird

The bird is a male. He's guarding the feeder on the left side of the house from  a twig of a potted sapling peach tree behind the feeder just to the left of the front doorsteps You can see it from the driveway. 
Jan Nordenberg 
San Diego 

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Broad-billed Hummingbird

As of 11:00, the Broad-billed Hummingbird is continuing at 17621 Boca Raton Lane in Poway. It can be seen from the street and uses the feeder on the left as you face the house. It’s in the shade, but still offers good viewing.
Barbara
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