Date: 12/23/24 11:42 am From: <lehman.paul...> via groups.io <lehman.paul...> Subject: [SanDiegoRegionBirding] Black Scoters, Plumbeous, Vermilion & Slate-colored glut
Monday morning the 23rd, there's a Plumbeous Vireo moving around Heritage Park in eastern Chula Vista. A Plumbeous has wintered in this park for almost ten years now, so presumably an ancient, returning bird. Also a Western Tanager and the usual mid-sized flock of Chipping Sparrows. At Sunnyslope Park, there's a continuing adult male Summer Tanager and multiple Western Tanagers and Bullock's Orioles. And the "forgotten" Black Scoters on South San Diego Bay continue, with a male and female together in the usual stretch between Coronado Cays and Chula Vista.
The surge of Vermilion Flycatchers continues county-wide, with my calculated total of birds since late November west of the deserts now at approximately 64. Another bird doing very well this winter is "Slate-colored" Dark-eyed Junco (including the intergrade form "cismontanus"), with the county total this month standing at about 17 birds.
Paul Lehman, San Diego
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