The date: 4/23/2025
The week number: 17

The walk number: 1810
The weather: 61 F; cloudy

The walkers: Alan Cummings, Chris Moreno,

Chip O’Connor, Ellen Yu

The birds (21)

No. First Name Last Name Prob

7	Western	Bluebird	0.50
4		Bushtit	1
1	American	Crow	1
11	Mourning	Dove	0.88
6	House	Finch	1
2	Lesser	Goldfinch	1
2	Anna’s	Hummingbird	1
3	Selasphorus	Hummingbird	0.62
4	Dark-eyed	Junco	1
1	Northern	Mockingbird	1
1	Indian	Peafowl	0
2	Black	Phoebe	0.75
4	Band-tailed	Pigeon	0.62
3	Common	Raven	1
4	House	Sparrow	1
3	European	Starling	0.62
10	White-throated	Swift	0.38
3	California	Towhee	1
7	Cedar	Waxwing	0
8	Acorn	Woodpecker	1
1	Bewick’s	Wren	0.75

Walk lasted between 12:00 and 14:03

We had a sub-par walk after having a record-setting walk last week. We observed 21 species, 2.3 short of the prediction.

We looked hard but failed to see the Vermillion Flycatcher that Hannah Carbone first reported and which Darren Dowell saw on three

different days hanging around my building, Cahill. I never saw it. Cullen O’Neil saw it and took a not-half-bad photo of it through his

binoculars. I attach it; sorry I couldn’t orient it properly. It is apparently an immature male. But, it did not make the Caltech list

because it wasn’t seen on the bird walk. We did observe a couple of other zero-probability birds, however. We saw 7 Cedar Waxwings

and heard an Indian Peafowl (formerly known as Common Peafowl). So, it was an OK walk.

Alan,

4/28/2025