Date: 1/4/26 10:07 am From: Justyn Stahl via groups.io <justyn.stahl...> Subject: Re: [SanDiegoRegionBirding] Sunday Winter Wren success, but different
And a request that if you join these field trips, where you’re clearly
birding as an organized group, you consider organizing a single shared
checklist!
Justyn Stahl
North Park
On Sun, Jan 4, 2026 at 10:00 AM <lehman.paul...> via groups.io
<lehman.paul...> wrote:
> The Sunday morning Winter Wren viewing event along Escondido Creek was
> attended by over 40 birders, which combined with the almost 40 yesterday
> will hopefully take care of most of the interested parties! Just to be
> clear, one's chances of seeing the bird at all well without the use of
> playback is very unlikely given the large amount of thick vegetation it can
> hide in and which you cannot directly access. You have to have the bird
> come out to near the edge of the path. Today, in response to playback, the
> bird would vocalize a bit more from time to time, but it only started out
> making very quick darting flights in and then would immediately fly back
> away and bury itself, unlike yesterday when it was spotted mousing around
> in the vegetation near the speaker. However, today after fits and starts of
> the bird doing that, it finally decided to sit in the open for two long
> periods of time on some low palm fronds at moderate distance and constantly
> call back. So people got reasonably good views and plenty of photos. From
> this point on, unless someone else wants to organize a group, which I'd
> recommend at this point giving the bird several days off And schedule such
> for next weekend, then otherwise you're on your own! There is no reason to
> think the bird won't stay at this area all winter and remain into February
> or March. But it's responsiveness to recordings already is perhaps slightly
> less today, Or at least one can say it is certainly different, than it was
> yesterday, and we got lucky that it kept picking these open perches to sit
> on in the low palm.
>
>
> Paul Lehman +43, San Diego
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