I'm late to the montane irruption party, but made it out to Cuyamaca today and was treated to huge numbers of irrupting species continuing around the mine - at least 10 flyover Red Crossbills heading south towards Stonewall peak, 8 Pinyon Jays, and huge numbers of nutcrackers. I estimated at least 60 nutcrackers, with 50+ of them in one group, all moving around and foraging on the hill that the mine sits on (so many nutcrackers that a merlin was actively trying to grab one from out of the group for several minutes). At least one of the Zone-tailed hawks also continues.
Grigory Heaton
San Diego
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