The date: 5/7/2024
The week number: 19

The walk number: 1761
The weather: 72 F; sunny

The walkers: Alan Cummings, Jim Zumberge, Chris Moreno,

Chip O’Connor, Marsha Hirano-Nakanishi, Ellen Yu, Robin Savoian

The birds (23)

No. First Name Last Name Prob

1	Red-whiskered	Bulbul	0.88
4		Bushtit	0.88
2	American	Crow	1
1	Mourning	Dove	0.88
1	House	Finch	1
1	Western	Flycatcher	0
1	Lesser	Goldfinch	1
2	Cooper’s	Hawk	0.38
1	Anna’s	Hummingbird	0.88
3	Selasphorus	Hummingbird	0.62
7	Dark-eyed	Junco	1
1	Ruby-crowned	Kinglet	0
2	Black	Phoebe	1
1	Band-tailed	Pigeon	0.62
6	Common	Raven	1
5	House	Sparrow	1
2	European	Starling	0.50
2	White-throated	Swift	0.50
2	California	Towhee	0.75
5	Warbling	Vireo	0.25
1	Turkey	Vulture	0.25
1	Hermit	Warbler	0
5	Acorn	Woodpecker	1

Walk lasted between 12:00 and 13:57.

We had a spectacular walk. We saw some pretty rare birds, the rarest being a Hermit Warbler. The bird has a black throat and a mostly yellow head. It is just beautiful. Chris had noticed that there were two interesting birds on a tree on Arden Road and called us over. She was right. The first was this Hermit Warbler, only the 6^th sighting on campus, the last being in 2014. The other one was a Warbling Vireo, actually 4 of them. We saw an additional one later to make 5 total. Those are not as rare as the Hermit Warbler but still a good find. It turns out the Warbling Vireo sightings cluster around week 20 and week 40 and these were the week 20 bunch. And there’s more. We also saw a Western Flycatcher, previously known as the Pacific-slope Flycatcher. I will have to change my records on that one. Ugh. And our count was good too. We observed 23 species, right on the prediction of 22.8. While we did see 3 zero-probability birds we did miss a Mockingbird at 100% probable and a Wilson’s Warbler at 75% probable. There were 5 more misses of birds with 50% or greater probability, so the record for the week of 31 wasn’t that far out of reach. Still a really good walk.

Alan,

5/7/2024