Date: 4/27/25 7:03 am From: Daniel Edelstein via groups.io <danieledelstein...> Subject: [northbaybirds] Recent Sightings/Detections In Marin County: Swainson's Thrush, N. Saw-whet Owl, Allen's Hummingbird, etc., et al
Hello:
Thanks to the West Marin Env. Action Committee* staff and volunteers that invited me to conduct a tour
at Five Brooks (NPS parcel between Olema and Bolinas), I was honored to lead a tour with 14 attendants that
yielded (* = One of dozens of tours for the 16th annual Pt. Reyes Birding Festival.):
*1 SWAINSON'S THRUSH* (Call note only heard: the "drip" note sound that is one call among the six call notes
in its repertoire...and, in my experience, the most typical call note to be heard for the earliest arriving migrants...i.e.,
I begin hearing songs from this species 2-3 weeks from now.)
*2 ALLEN'S HUMMINGBIRD*
*4 MALE WOOD DUCK* (swimming together (!) )
1 PACIFIC WREN
2 WILSON'S WARBLER
1 ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER
1 PURPLE FINCH
1 BROWN CREEPER
4/21/25
While conducting a listening survey for N. Spotted Owl, I heard an ongoing calling *N. SAW-WHET OWL.*
It was approximately 1,000' west of 51 Blue Ridge Road where a cul de sac occurs, if you wish to listen upon visiting.
Recording that requires you to use headphones with your laptop/desktop computer is at my eBird checklist:
