Date: 10/26/25 2:47 pm From: Roee Astor via groups.io <roeeastor...> Subject: Re: [SanDiegoRegionBirding] golden-plovers continue off 10th but...
American Golden Plover continues this afternoon as of 2:45pm on stint
island if anyone still needs to see it. The plovers have been flushed
several times by raptors over the past hour I’ve been here but invariably
have circled around and returned after ten minutes or so.
On Sun, Oct 26, 2025 at 11:38 AM Robert Patton via groups.io <rpatton=
<san.rr.com...> wrote:
> Around 10:45 this morning (10/26/25), the majority of birds, including the
> golden-plovers, flushed from the SW pond 23 island of SoCal saltworks.
> Thankfully, a good proportion of them returned within a few minutes,
> including the American and at least one juv Pacific. Scoping from the
> bikepath NW of 10th St in IB (yes, scope necessary), heatwaves were already
> getting bad, but one could still discern for comparison broadness of
> supercilium, paleness of face & supercilium, and wing extension, with the
> American usually hanging out just SW of the NW end of the ridge on the
> island, and the Pacific on the SW shore of the saltcrust extending NW from
> the island. With high tide currently peaking, I would expect them to shift
> to the bay to forage with ebbing tide this afternoon then hopefully return
> to saltworks to roost with the next rising tide.
> Robert Patton
> San Diego, CA
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