Date: 4/28/26 7:08 am From: Steven Tracey (via aznmbirds Mailing List) <aznmbirds...> Subject: [AZNMbirds] SEAZ: A Belated Report from Saturday's Big Birding Challenge
Hi Birders,
On this past Saturday, the Big Birding Challenge hosted 29 birders spread
across five SPRNCA locations with each team birding for 4 hours, trying to
tally as many species as possible. Our winning team finished with 70
species from the Waters Road (Casa de San Pedro) location. In total the
five teams found 93 species which was about 10 less than last year which
feels about right given a fairly slow migration this year. We did have
some nice highlights across the teams. Just about all teams had a good
raptor day with several groups finding Common Black Hawks. Flycatchers
were also seen in good numbers with all three regional Myiarchus
flycatchers seen along with the three expected Empidonax, among others.
Warblers continued to be harder to find beyond the numerous Lucy's and
Northern Yellow, with a beautiful male Hermit Warbler probably the
highlight. All in all a really nice time and a great way to celebrate the
San Pedro!
Just a reminder, tomorrow will be the last of the every Wednesday April
walks at San Pedro House, as we revert back to the 2nd and 4th Wednesday of
the month in May. The walk tomorrow starts at 7:00am.
