Date: 1/4/26 8:13 pm From: Vincent Baker via groups.io <bakerv1996...> Subject: [OrangeCountyBirding] Chestnut-sided Warbler (Gibbs Park), American Redstart (Haven View Park); 1/4/2026
Hi birders,
This morning during the coastal Orange County CBC, my dad and I found an immature/female chestnut-sided warbler in the large Tipu tree just north of the playground at Gibbs Park ( 33.7200265, -118.0355832) and a male American Redstart in the tall Ash trees at Haven View Park ( 33.7293355, -118.0445351). The chestnut-sided was pretty cooperative and allowed good looks from <5 feet away; the redstart on the other hand was incredibly flighty and hyperactively foraging in the upper canopy of ash trees. We saw these birds before the rain really started pouring down on us. Both should be first records for these hotspots.
