Date: 5/7/26 9:45 am From: <lehman.paul...> via groups.io <lehman.paul...> Subject: [SanDiegoRegionBirding] Broad-winged Hawk, Wilson's Phalaropes, Cook's Petrels
At around 9:00 a.m. Thursday there was a sub-adult Broad-winged hawk perched in one of the taller willow trees just past the main platform at the main Dairy Mart Pond, but then it got flushed off its perch by crows though it didn't go far but it could be anywhere in the area. This matches the plumage of the bird Brennan found yesterday just slightly farther west off Sunset, so could well be the same individual and thus perhaps would be one of the first-ever multi-day birds in spring in the county.
Right after dawn this morning there were three very dull Wilson's Phalaropes swimming around in pond 22 off the end of 13th Street at the saltworks. Hardly a big deal but it's been a poor spring for them it seems this year.
I just got back in town with a group of San Diegans from a repo cruise we took from San Diego to Vancouver, and right after we left San Diego last Saturday, we did have several Cooks Petrels either in Baja waters or Los Angeles County waters within a very few miles of "The Corner," so they probably are nipping the San Diego boundary there if anybody visited..... Maybe on the scheduled upcoming pelagic trip on May 23rd!!
Paul Lehman, San Diego
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