Date: 3/20/26 9:32 pm From: Philip Unitt via groups.io <unitt...> Subject: [SanDiegoRegionBirding] Black-throated Green Warbler in Mission Valley
Dear friends,
This morning 20 March 2026 Steve Ritt and I found a female Black-throated Green Warbler in the FSDRIP revegetation area in Mission Valley, on the south side of the San Diego River a few hundred feet west of Mission Center Road. We first heard a soft but distinctive call like a Black-throated Gray's but softer--Steve called it "kissy." Then we saw it in the canopy of a cottonwood tree. The sides of the head were rather dull yellow with just a little dusky smudge over the ear coverts.The throat was a very pale yellow--barely discernible yellow.The breast and sides were variably marbled or mottled with blackish over white, most heavily on the sides of the breast, lightly across the center of the breast and on the sides. Thus the pattern below just hinted at the characteristic pattern of an spring male Black-throated Green. After we watched it for a couple of minutes it flew off to the west, toward Hwy. 163, and we lost it.
Good birding,
Philip UnittSan Diego
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