Date: 1/4/25 12:48 pm From: <lehman.paul...> via groups.io <lehman.paul...> Subject: [SanDiegoRegionBirding] The Louisiana Waterthrush search method and Creek name
The creek along which the Louisiana waterthrush is present in Solana Beach is probably no more than a catchment system for local irrigation runoff, etc. unless it actually. It was very rarely ever birded until I believe in 2021, when I happened to go into the large shopping center that's just above or Northeast of the creek to pick up a snack at Panera Bread. The top end of the creek can be accessed from just past Panera going down a staircase and then following the Creek, zigzagging in and out of office building areas, and you end up at the lower section where it crosses Academy Drive and where the waterthrush is. A number of us looked at a variety of maps and could never find the creek or drainage named on any map, so without a formal name I just decided to call it Panera Creek. But if anybody does find a more official name for it anywhere, do let us know. The waterthrush Can be seen anywhere along the creek adjacent to the parking lot just north of Academy and one just looks over the wall at the creek and hope you find it. However, for much of the time when it was seen This morning it kept returning to the same two or three spots where there was actually flowing Water in the creek, not just stagnant. The most reliable of those spots I'd say is about three quarters of the way up the parking lot edge where one looks across to just the other side of the creek water and there are two or three very short 2 ft. Tall baby palm vegetation growing, almost looking like palmetto, and if you look carefully between and behind those little palms, you'll see that the water is flowing. And then the second most popular spot was close to the bottom end of the parking lot where there's a short section of running water right along the front of and underneath a much larger Palm that has dead fronds hanging down, Literally touching the water. On only one occasion. Was the bird seen farther north or up Creek from that first location, So now adjacent to the very top end of the parking lot. But it doesn't stay very long at any one time. So it was sort of like a Chinese fire drill with birders dashing one way or the other in the parking lot when somebody would call out that they had it, often to arrive too late.
Paul Lehman, San Diego
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