Date: 11/20/25 7:34 am From: Justyn Stahl via groups.io <justyn.stahl...> Subject: Re: [SanDiegoRegionBirding] Prothonotary continues , Blue Grosbeak
Continues this morning, 20 Nov. spotted by Margaret Brown.
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Justyn Stahl
North Park (about 75 stop signs west of Colina Del Sol)
On Wed, Nov 19, 2025 at 10:17 AM <lehman.paul...> via groups.io
<lehman.paul...> wrote:
> The Prothonotary Warbler in Colina del Sol Park found early this morning
> by John Bruin was finally refound after almost 3 hours in the same exact
> area initially seen in, frequenting several thick ficus trees and then
> immediately on the east side of the ficus are a couple trees called fern
> pines of the genus afrocarpus or podocarpus, and the bird regularly would
> go in those as well, back and forth. The reason it is so hard to refind is
> it stays buried for long periods of time. And then, to make matters
> potentially worse, the bird was also seen flying out of one of those fern
> pines across the main road (54th St.) to the east, to where there are some
> additional fern pines and then farther some heavily blooming eucalyptus
> around some apartment buildings, which Prothos like in the late fall and
> winter. Whether this is a regular route of the bird Is uncertain, but in
> any case, thank goodness not long thereafter that it returned to Colina del
> Sol into the three ficus trees.
>
> Also present today farther west in the park in the North-Central part of
> the park was a female or immature Blue Grosbeak, which is very late.
>
>
> Paul Lehman and mobs, San Diego
>
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