Date: 9/16/25 9:16 am From: Florence Sanchez via groups.io <sanchezucsb11...> Subject: [sbcobirding] More on the Putative Alder Flycatcher
As I posted earlier, John Callender and I had it very early, for me at 6:40 a.m. As the morning progressed, there were multiple sightings by a lot of birders. At the time I left (around 8:30 a.m.) it was favoring the clumps of Tules on the right (west) side of the mud apron below the parking lot.
At one point where there was a lull of sightings from the apron, I took my scope around to the east, to a point off the Cabrillo bike path where there is viewing access of the northeast corner of the pond. I saw the Flycatcher twice there before it moved back to the edge of tules by the apron, and then across to the other side where several people saw it.
My advice is to make yourself wait at the edge of the apron and check the tule clumps on both sides frequently from there. The Flycatcher is regularly feeding on the insects in the mud at the estuary edges. Going elsewhere will probably not be productive. And I don't see the necessity of using playback to bring it in--it will eventually show up without it and playback might drive it away.
Florence Sanchez
