Date: 4/8/24 6:37 pm From: Brian Fitch <fogeggs...> Subject: Re: [SFBirds] A High Count & Interesting Behavior
So we can’t blame global warming for the current situation! Thanks Peter.
Brian
On Mon, Apr 8, 2024 at 6:23 PM Peter Metropulos <pjmetrop...>
wrote:
> TROPICAL KINGBIRD: Historical breeding season record.
>
> During the winter of 1976-77, two TROPICAL KINGBIRDS were present at North
> Lake in Golden Gate Park. I was attending SF State at the time so I
> frequently birded GGPark.
> I observed one of these birds as late as May 27. A friend of mine who was
> in my Ornithology class told me he saw the kingbird on June 4 !
>
>
> PS: I need to dust off my old SF field notes & get them into the archives.
>
>
> Peter Metropulos
>
> On Monday, April 8, 2024 at 05:28:56 PM PDT, Brian Fitch <
> <fogeggs...> wrote:
>
>
> At the Sutro Baths today, a flock of roughly 280 Elegant Terns was
> dominating a feeding frenzy out in the GG channel. This was in addition to
> many more Elegants flying in and out simultaneously nearer to my watch
> point. In 28 years of covering this site, I can’t recall ever seeing a
> single flock beyond double digits, so the relatively new spring presence of
> the species here has become quite phenomenal.
> At North Lake, I looked up toward a very vocal Red-shouldered Hawk in
> flight and saw the Tropical Kingbird attacking it, before returning to a
> perch on the southern island. This kingbird has already shown amazing
> fidelity to the area since sometime last year, but does the territorial
> behavior mean that it will stay around for the breeding season? A
> rhetorical question for now.
> Brian Fitch
>
>
