Date: 4/9/25 6:48 am From: <lehman.paul...> via groups.io <lehman.paul...> Subject: [SanDiegoRegionBirding] American Bittern and miscellaneous
The American Bittern reported yesterday at the smaller pond on the north side of the main pond at Kumeyaay Lake at Mission Trails flew in this morning, Wednesday, between 6:15 and 6:20 a.m. from roosting somewhere else, did several circles around the pond and landed in the middle. Access is from the campground walking clockwise around the main pond. You cannot cross on the little pedestrian bridge that's farther to the east, as it's closed for the season and half removed! At 5:55 a.m., in the pre-dawn gloom, I had a Neotropic Cormorant leave the main lake, circle up, and depart, perhaps heading to Santee Lakes?
Yesterday, there were three very rare, well Inland Red-breasted Mergansers at Lake Morena. Also a singing Yellow-headed blackbird. The mergansers are probably quasi-annual at some Inland lake in the county each spring. Earlier in the morning, several of us were along kitchen Creek Road, where we had one singing Gray Vireo where previously reported a short ways out the Pacific Crest trail to the east, a couple singing Black chinned sparrows in their usual area adjoining the mile 2.3 "pullout", and plenty of Mountain Quail. But general bird activity seemed a bit on the low side.
Paul Lehman, San Diego
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