Date: 5/12/25 10:37 am
From: Deborah Diersch <debbiediersch...>
Subject: Re: [MBBIRDS] Astonishing Migration Push and a Lazuli photo
Such great news - thank you for sharing Pete!

The photo of the Lazuli Bunting is beautiful.

On Sat, May 10, 2025 at 8:03 PM '<delallag...>' via mbbirds <
<mbbirds...> wrote:

> Gorgeous LABU photo!
>
> Gail DeLalla
>
>
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> On Saturday, May 10, 2025, 6:36 PM, Pete Sole <pete...>
> wrote:
>
> Hi birders,
>
> During the last 2 nights, radar analysis from Cornell's Birdcast
> reported an astonishing number of birds passing through. Thursday night
> was phenomenal, with some 1.5 million birds crossing into Santa Cruz
> county. Friday night, last night, still saw some incredible, 1.09
> million birds cross into our county. My strong suspicion, is that this
> is likely one the largest migration pushes, if not the largest, that we
> will see this migration season. To obsess over more data 😂, see:
>
> https://dashboard.birdcast.info/region/US-CA-087?night=2025-05-09
>
> Given the above, I aborted my plan to bird the northern end of the
> county today, and went up to Loma Prieta. Got there late around 8am. But
> none the less, BLACK-CHINNED SPARROWS and LAZULI BUNTINGS were singing.
> One bunting even sort of posed for a brief moment:
>
>
> https://www.lighthousenet.com/photos/birds/web_ready/sparrows_allies/bunting_lazuli_250510b.jpg
>
> For more info, and a few additional so-so photos of what was we saw and
> heard at Loma Prieta, see these two ebird reports:
>
> Lower saddle: https://ebird.org/checklist/S235582858
>
> Upper saddle: https://ebird.org/checklist/S235735718
>
> Fun birding,
>
> Pete Solé
>
> Soquel, CA
>
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