Date: 4/28/24 3:33 pm From: Dave Compton via groups.io <davcompton60...> Subject: [sbcobirding] Refugio Rd/Canyon this morning
This morning, I looked for migrants moving up the slope from Refugio Canyon, near where others looked yesterday. I'm not sure exactly where people birded yesterday, but I was on the stretch of road for several hundred meters west of the hairpin where the road leaves the creek and heads through the burned over-chaparral above the west fork. My eBird list covers only this area:
The best bird was probably a HAMMOND'S FLYCATCHER at what I refer to as "pt 2" in my eBird checklist. I also had at least one singing YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT, possibly two. An OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER that lingered for a while was nice. I had fewer birds that people who birded in this area yesterday, with lower numbers of almost all migrants. Wilson's Warbler and Warbling Vireo were my most numerous migrants, but more of each were seen yesterday than I saw today.
Later, I drove up and down the Gaviota coast looking around for Crested Caracara, but had no luck.
