Date: 1/21/26 6:19 pm From: Ruslan Balagansky via groups.io <ruslan...> Subject: [SanDiegoRegionBirding] Hotspots for eBird Bar Charts Jan 22-31
Hello fellow SD birders,
Thanks again for contributing to our efforts to fill out the weekly eBird bar charts! This week the number of hotspots covered was *double* the number from last week!
Highlights include:
* A Summer Tanager at Memorial Park * Cuyamaca Rancho SP Cold Stream Trail - the first double digit species count in 5 years owing to a thorough 5 mile / 3 hour effort! (23 species). Highlights here include a Fox Sparrow and a Purple Finch. * Montevalle Community Park was birded for the first time since July and yielded a pretty good audio recording of a Hutton's Vireo * Phil Unitt birded PQ Carson's Crossing as part of SD Nat's Urban Canyon Study: https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/healthy-canyons-initiative-san-diego
For next week, we have a very short list of hotspots nearing completion. Only 2 spots with fewer than 10 weeks remaining, so 2 more are added to the list of the week based on fewest weeks remaining. Although these 4 spots are on the outskirts, we have a few extra days to cover them since this is the last chart week of the month. As usual for this year, we also have a second list with about two dozen hotspots that have pretty good coverage except for the current time of year.
All 4 hotspots on the first list should be comfortably within one California Bird Atlas block, and the Old Coach Rd. riparian hotspot hasn't been atlassed at all yet.
Also a reminder: eBird now allows submission of photos of the hotspot itself (under Experience and/or Habitat). These photos will be featured on the hotspot page itself. This is a great way to document for others what the hotspot itself looks like / what a birder visiting for the first time might expect. No fancy camera necessary - a phone photo will work just fine! Here's the Carson's Crossing page, for example, currently showcasing several photos taken by John Bruin in December: https://ebird.org/hotspot/L4310853.
Laguna Mtns.--Pine Creek Rd. near S1 Cuyamaca Rancho SP--Azalea Glen Trail Appleton Preserve, Fallbrook, CA Old Coach Rd. riparian
Hotspots with 3+ week bar chart gaps:
Agua Hedionda Lagoon--Harbor Dr. Reama Park Laguna Mtns.--Desert View Overlook Sloane Canyon Azalea Community Park Palomar County Park Sunrise Hwy--mile 14.5 pullout San Onofre SB--bluffs Zuniga Jetty Oasis Spring Scripps Ranch Community Park Carmel Creek Neighborhood Park Santa Margarita Ecological Reserve (Restricted Access) Agua Hedionda Lagoon--boat ramp Palomar Mtn.--Doane Valley CG Camp Pendleton--Macs Road Ponds (restricted access) Kwaamii Point Spooners Mesa 32nd St. Canyon Open Space Camp Pendleton--Santa Margarita River mouth (restricted access) Otay River Valley--east of 125 Holy Cross Cemetery Coronado Cays--park & residential South Buena Vista Park Hidden Canyon Park
Cheers,
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