Date: 10/5/26 8:16 am From: <tgmiko...> via groups.io <tgmiko...> Subject: [LACoBirds] Catalina Island (Avalon) Sunday birds
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Rick Fisher and I took the Catalina Express from Long Beach to Avalon, this
morning Sunday 10/4/2026. We wanted to take the boat out of San Pedro—to go
past the red buoy and the green buoy where boobies (starting with a Nazca
Booby)—but San Pedro boat tickets were all sold out on Thursday.
We arrived in Avalon around 0930, and spent the day slowly ascending Avalon
Canyon Road, arriving at the Wrigley Memorial around 1230 PM. Along the
way, we saw bazillions of Red breasted Nuthatches—who were in every type of
tree or bush you could imagine—not limiting themselves to pines
(most—perhaps all—non native pines). It was hot. We sweated a lot. We drank
a lot of water. It was exhausting and not birdy at all, until Rick found a
weird Empidonax:
https://ebird.org/checklist/S399265092 Then we sat around, resting in town, and it finally got birdy in the last
hour of sunlight:
https://ebird.org/atlascalifornia/checklist/S399305105 We randomly sat in front of an espresso/ ice cream/ bakery place and saw
multiple cool birds.
