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Hot spots for the week of October 1-7

5:25 pm

Greetings 

Here are the list of Hot spots in San Diego County that could use a report during the week of October 1-7.  Each of these locations need fewer than 10 reports over the coming year to be completed. The two in red only need a report this coming week and they will be finished. Hopefully you will find a Hot spot here to visit and do a complete report. Obviously there are many more hot spots out there that could use reports this coming week but they need greater than 10 over the coming year to be completed.
Oct 1-7
Aviara Resort
Batiquitos Lagoon – Cholla Point
Delta Beach – South Overlook
El Capitan Reservoir
Elfin Forest Recreational Reserve
Forester Creek at Mission Gorge Rd
Iron Mountain (SD Co.)
Lake Hodges – footbridge (east end)
Lake San Marcos
Lakeside Linkage County Preserve
Lopez Canyon
Mission Trails Regional Park – Father Junipero
Moonlight SB
Otay River Restoration (west portion restricted)
Pepper Park & Sweetwater River Mouth
Poway Pond
Romona Community Park
San Diego Unified School Complex
Scott Valley Park and Encinitas Creek area, Encinitas
Seagrove/Powerhouse Parks
Silver Strand SB – Crown Cove (bay side)
Sweetwater Channel – tidal & riparian

If you have any questions please contact me at JohnRBruin@…

John Bruin
Bay Park

Re: Blackpoll Warbler, Coronado

5:41 pm

I had a Blackpoll Warbler about 8:45 this morning in Tecolote Canyon. I heard calling and Merlin confirmed it. I did not have a camera with me. In the area below the USD athletic fields, near the Via Las Cumbres trailhead. Other warblers in the area included Orange-crowned, Yellow-rump (FOS), and Common Yellowthroat.

Larry Edwards

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Larry Edwards
San Diego, CA

Tricolored Heron confusion, returning Am. Redstart

3:48 pm

An adult male American Redstart has returned for at least its third winter to the Sheraton Four Points property bordering Montgomery Field. North and east sides. Please be on your best behavior.
The Tricolored Heron situation in the county has become a bit confused the past couple months. First, there was the immature bird at the San Diego River mouth (Robb Field) that remained a long time through 17 Sep, and which was eBirded about 250 times for a new county record! While that bird was still present, another bird of uncertain age set up shop at San Elijo Lagoon starting 31 Aug, and remained to the present, where it now appears to also be an immature. Then, on 11 Sep a one-day-wonder immature Tricolored was farther north at Batiquitos Lagoon. But then on 27 Sep, TWO Tricoloreds were seen side-by-side at San Elijo, both appearing similar and would likely not be easily told from one another if seen separately. So, exactly how many different immature Tricoloreds have been present in the county during the past two months? Somewhere between two and four birds. Folks could help clarify the situation somewhat by paying close attention to the plumage of any Tricolored they see, noting exact neck color and the exact patterning of any rusty coloration to the wing coverts on both sides–and, of course, try to get reasonable photos of the bird(s).
Paul Lehman, San Diego

Hybrid Broad-billed X Annas, and FRNC incl. Grace’s

9:29 am

The male hybrid Broad-billed X Anna’s Hummingbird found yesterday by Matt S. continues Sunday morning at Point Loma Nazarene University in exactly the same place described by Matt yesterday in his eBird report. Spends a lot of time in the small olive tree under the palm tree right next to the University Department of Public Safety sign and then feeds right across the street in the mass of blooming salvia.

A fair number of people at the FRNC cemetery this morning saw the continuing Graces warbler, continuing American redstart and three Vermilions, and the single Tropical Kingbird has now become two Tropical Kingbirds, and there was a brief female or young male Rose-breasted Grosbeak in the southeast corner, and I hear rumor of a briefly seen Tennessee warbler in the northeast corner.
Paul Lehman,  San Diego 

San Diego pelagic 28 Sep: Guadalupe Murrelet, Least Storm-Petrels, Craveri’s, male Cocos Booby

4:33 am

The San Diego pelagic trip on Saturday, September 28, out
of Mission Bay aboard “Legacy” and sponsored by Buena Vista Audubon
Society was held under very nice sea conditions. Keeping the theme of
much of 2024, overall bird numbers were lower than average, in fact they were much lower on this day, but several
good birds were seen. Leading the pack was the fairly cooperative Guadalupe Murrelet at “The Corner” (31.4 miles west of the tip of Point Loma). Also two pairs of Craveri’s Murrelets and four Least Storm-Petrels on the 30-Mile Bank, and a pale-headed adult male Cocos (Brown) Booby in the San Diego Trough. Photos will be added to posted eBird
lists, probably available later today or tomorrow. Totals for the day once we got about
a mile offshore were as follows:
Black-bellied Plover:  1
Whimbrel:  1
Western Sandpiper:  1
Red-necked Phalarope:  52
Pomarine Jaeger:  2
Parasitic Jaeger:  1
Guadalupe Murrelet:  1
Craveri’s Murrrelet:  4
murrelet sp.:  2
Cassin’s Auklet:  1
Heermann’s Gull:  12
Western Gull:  250
California Gull:  5
Common Tern:  7
Elegant Tern:  20
Black Storm-Petrel:  45
Least Storm-Petrel:  4
Pink-footed Shearwater:  24
Black-vented Shearwater:  22
Brown (Cocos) Booby:  2
Brandt’s Cormorant:  1
Brown Pelican:  15
hummingbird sp.:  1
Yellow-rumped Warbler:  2
Also:  Surfbirds, Striped Marlin, Mola-Mola, Elephant Seal, Risso’s Dolphins
–Paul Lehman, Dave Povey, Bruce Rideout, Paul Mulholland, Brennan Mulrooney, San Diego

Northern Waterthrush(es) at the Pond West of the B&B Garden

2:46 pm

We were at the Bird and Butterfly Garden about an hour ago and saw 2, possibly 3, Northern Waterthrushes. We couldn’t get a pic because they were too fast, but we got audio. We found them here: 32.5554610, -117.0957851. We got a really good lookk at one of them at the pond, and it was definitely a Northern Waterthrush.
 
Here’s the eBird checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S196798915
 
Chad Brack (Bearded Birding)
La Jolla Colony 
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