Date: 12/17/25 5:42 pm From: Caitlin Chock via groups.io <caitlin.crash...> Subject: [pen-bird] Updates on coastal rarities for Crystal Springs CBC
Hi all,
I've been birding around the Half Moon Bay area the last week on my lunch breaks and have some updates on continuing birds that CBC counters might find useful.
- Cricket Raspet's GREEN-TAILED TOWHEE was present today in the same spot it was found in - along the fenceline of the Cowell-Purisima trail adjacent to the house around here 37.422435, -122.427699.
- In 2 visits to Frenchman's Creek Park, the AMERICAN REDSTART originally found on last year's CBC and here for another winter, was in the tall bottlebrushes at the east end of the park on both visits. As Kent Forward has already mentioned, a NASHVILLE WARBLER was still present yesterday. On Saturday, I may have heard but was unable to visually confirm Jari Toivanen's CANADA WARBLER along the creek riparian. A new bird yesterday was a BLACK-HEADED GROSBEAK feeding quietly in the top of a eucalypt tree on the corner of Touraine and Toulouse.
- In a brief visit to Our Lady of the Pillar cemetery yesterday I was unable to locate Richard Jeffers' Worm-eating Warbler, but it has been observed in several different parts of the creek so hopefully it will make an appearance for the CBC.
