Date: 10/22/25 8:03 pm From: Dominik Mosur via groups.io <dominikmosur...> Subject: [SFBirds] CANADA WARBLER 10/22/2025 and recent observations of note
This afternoon I took a detour from my commute home to follow up on an iNaturalist report of a Canada Warbler in the West Portal neighborhood that had been posted yesterday. Walking along the alley that parallels (runs between) Portola and Ulloa I came upon a mixed flock of Bushtits, Chickadees and Warblers where Granville Way dead ends. A bit of pishing elicited the continuing CANADA WARBLER to briefly pop into view. I notified a few others and Keith Maley arrived within a few minutes and was able to get some good photos of the warbler.
Some other sightings from the past couple of weeks:
On 10/12 doing point counts on Mount Sutro there were favorable conditions for a morning flight (clear skies north/northeast breeze) and a group of (8-10) LAWRENCE’S Goldfinches flew by the hill observed from the North Ridge trail where many trees have been removed in the past year making it now a prime spot for observing fly-overs/hawkwatching. A Varied Thrush calling around sunrise was the first I’ve encountered this fall.
On 10/16 there was a LONG-EARED OWL on Corona Hill.
The morning of 10/18 conditions were once again good for morning flight. A pre-work skywatch from Corona Hill was punctuated by a calling fly-over CASSIN’S FINCH - a species very rarely noted on the immediate coast. The first I’ve noted this fall in SF , a flock of (~30) American Pipits flew by as well.
On 10/20 on a visit to the Lincoln Park Golf Course I connected with the returning GRACE’S Warbler in the same area it wintered from Sept - April. The Grace’s was foraging and calling frequently from a Monterey Pine near the tee for the hole at 40th and Clement.
Yesterday (10/21) I got a message from Erick Masias that he had found a BLACK-AND-WHITE Warbler on Corona Hill. I walked over to the north side of the park and together we watched the B&W Warbler cooperatively foraging in Coast Live Oaks along the trail that connects the 15th Street entrance of the park with the plateau area below the crown. Interestingly, Erick had found a Black-and-white Warbler in nearby Buena Vista Park over the weekend which is only a few hundred meters distant as the bird flies. I suspect the bird we watched on Tuesday was the same individual.
