another returning Painted Redstart, Point Loma miscellanea

The second returning Painted Redstart of the season is back in the county, also for its second winter. This bird is in Mission Valley behind 1550 Hotel Circle North, which is a private office building. Given that the redstart and all birds are at the opposite end of the parking lot from the building, this shouldn’t be a problem, though obviously good behavior is warranted. Everything is along the north edge of the parking lot, bordering the Riverwalk Golf Course, and the redstart typically prefers the northeast corner of the parking lot. However, both last year and today, I saw it fly well inside the large apartment complex to the east, where there are courtyards with plenty of sycamore trees–and where we best stay out of. So, the bird can take a while to find and it can be missed.

Earlier this morning, in the general Silvergate neighborhood in residential Point Loma, there was a Clay-colored Sparrow, continuing Black-and-white Warbler, Wilson’s Warbler, and male “Slate-colored” Junco. And at the southeast corner of Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery there was a female-type Summer Tanager.

Paul Lehman, San Diego