Date: 10/5/25 12:16 pm From: Conor McMahon via groups.io <conormcmahon22...> Subject: [sbcobirding] Franceschi Park, Andree Clark Bird Refuge
Hi all,
Yesterday morning I birded for a bit at Franceschi Park, looking for fall migrants. Like everywhere else this fall, the red gum eucalyptus don't have many lerps yet, but there were a modest number of migrants. The most interesting thing was a MacGillivray's Warbler. Also felt like a step up in Yellow-rumped numbers since the last time I was outside a few days earlier. I had a steady slow trickle of migrating Turkey Vultures later in the morning, but no other migrating raptors.
Later I went to Andree Clark. The water has fallen enough to expose a wide skirt of mud on the north side of the pond, most of which is reasonably visible from the various wooden observation platforms. Flocks of peeps were using that area but I couldn't pull out anything other than Western and Least. Shoveler numbers had jumped back up and a large number of Brown Pelicans were using the lagoon, too. I didn't see any other duck species except for Mallard and Ruddy. There was one returned Tropical Kingbird.
