Date: 4/22/25 4:03 pm From: Gwen Baldwin via groups.io <gwenbaldwin...> Subject: Re: [SanDiegoRegionBirding] American Bittern and miscellaneous
The American Bittern is still in the same location (north lake of Kumeyaay
Lakes) with the same behavior...only neck and head visible this morning
around 8:45 am.
Gwen Baldwin
On Wed, Apr 9, 2025 at 8:04 AM Nancy Christensen via groups.io
<nancy.r.christensen...> wrote:
> Bird still here at 8am. Way out on the floating vegetation - only head and
> neck visible.
> Nancy Christensen
> Ramona
>
>
> A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a
> song.
> Chinese Proverb
>
> On Apr 9, 2025, at 6:48 AM, <lehman.paul...> via groups.io
> <lehman.paul...> wrote:
>
>
> The American Bittern reported yesterday at the smaller pond on the north
> side of the main pond at Kumeyaay Lake at Mission Trails flew in this
> morning, Wednesday, between 6:15 and 6:20 a.m. from roosting somewhere
> else, did several circles around the pond and landed in the middle. Access
> is from the campground walking clockwise around the main pond. You cannot
> cross on the little pedestrian bridge that's farther to the east, as it's
> closed for the season and half removed! At 5:55 a.m., in the pre-dawn
> gloom, I had a Neotropic Cormorant leave the main lake, circle up, and
> depart, perhaps heading to Santee Lakes?
>
>
> Yesterday, there were three very rare, well Inland Red-breasted Mergansers
> at Lake Morena. Also a singing Yellow-headed blackbird. The mergansers are
> probably quasi-annual at some Inland lake in the county each spring.
> Earlier in the morning, several of us were along kitchen Creek Road, where
> we had one singing Gray Vireo where previously reported a short ways out
> the Pacific Crest trail to the east, a couple singing Black chinned
> sparrows in their usual area adjoining the mile 2.3 "pullout", and plenty
> of Mountain Quail. But general bird activity seemed a bit on the low side.
>
>
> Paul Lehman, San Diego
>
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>
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