Date: 10/15/25 9:29 pm From: Keith Maley via groups.io <keith.maley...> Subject: Re: [SFBirds] COMMON POORWILL on Corona Hill 10/15/2025
Following Dominik's sighting, a Common Poorwill was actively hunting on Mt.
Davidson starting at 7:17 pm and observed several times over the course of
an hour, including with Nico. It moved back and forth across the hillside
and was viewed from the north plateau, the eastern slope path, and the X. I
found the best way to locate it is by scanning the open hillside with an
iphone video and picking up the orange eye shine. The bird was calling
regularly-- cluck calls, like this recording:
https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/112803311. I'll post videos on ebird.
Similarly, also present were at least two Barn Owls and one Great Horned
Owl.
On Wed, Oct 15, 2025 at 9:15 PM Dominik Mosur via groups.io <dominikmosur=
<gmail.com...> wrote:
> Midday while walking up to my hawk watching perch on top of Corona Hill I
> flushed a Common Poorwill from a patch of rock and short grass. The
> poorwill flew into cover down a ways. It came out to forage from the same
> spot 28 minutes after sunset (18:59) when the light was almost gone.
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> A Great-horned and Barn Owl were both also active on the hill after sunset.
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> Dominik Mosur
> San Francisco
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