Date: 9/24/25 11:49 am From: <lehman.paul...> via groups.io <lehman.paul...> Subject: [SanDiegoRegionBirding] Tennessee Warbler, tipus, miscellanea
This morning, Weds, there was a Tennessee Warbler in Sorrento Valley. This is about the fifth Tennessee in the county this month, and about the third to be found in tipu trees. As is the case in a number of years, our local tipu hotspots have been rather slow so far this month, but I have noted some improvement at several of the ones I visit just in the past week. Hopefully, it will be a continuing upward trend and like in past years when bird numbers and quality improve substantially beginning sometime in October and continue on into the early winter months.
In other news, as has become the norm over the past number of years, numbers of Black-chinned Hummingbirds are remaining at favored feeders well into late September--later than they formerly lingered. I still have several at some Tierrasanta feeders, and there were still 7 in Jacumba yesterday (where also the usual Harris's Hawks). A couple Olive-sided Flycatchers on Point Loma on Monday, as well as the continuing Tropical Kingbird at Robb Field which certainly is a returning bird for at least several years now--and so far the only TK seen this month in the county.
As many birders have noted, the numbers of western landbird migrants near the coast this entire month as been decidedly mediocre. Certainly some nice eastern vagrants around, although not in large numbers, but regular western migrants not so encouraging.
Paul Lehman, San Diego
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