Today, Aug 31st, a morning visit to Jacumba produced 4 continuing Harris's Hawks, 2 Vermilion Flycatchers, a Yellow-headed Blackbird, continuing easterly-dispersing Red-shouldered Hawk and 2 White-breasted Nuthatches, an arrival Brewer's Sparrow, a continuing high count of 65-70 White-winged Doves, and small numbers of various expected western landbird migrants. A stop at the Pine Valley hummingbird feeders produced the usual ca. 25 Black-chinneds, 60 Anna's, and 4 Rufous/Allen's, plus up to about 5 male Tricolored Blackbirds in the same yard, with other blackbirds--status locally in fall being perhaps unclear (?).

Yesterday, Aug 30, a House Wren at a coastal site where they do not breed provides for a somewhat early arrival-date data point! Hard to determine migrant dates for this species away from the desert given how widespread it is as a breeding species.

On 29 Aug, there was a Bank Swallow in Rancho Santa Fe, where also my first migrant-type Savannah Sparrows of the season--a bit late. A single flock of 10 Swinhoe's White-eyes in Solana Beach is my personal largest flock in San Diego County. A slightly wayward Hutton's Vireo was on "outer" Point Loma.

--Paul Lehman, San Diego

Today, the 2nd, a group of observers scanned the upper end of Sweetwater Reservoir and had 5 Baird's Sandpipers, 1 Lesser Yellowlegs, the continuing near-adult Bald Eagle, good numbers of shorebirds overall, and a wayward Acorn Woodpecker. Multiple Solitary Sandpipers continue on the eastern Dairy Mart pond and a Bank Swallow was near the Tijuana R. channel near Dairy Mart.

Yesterday, the 1st, an adult male Summer Tanager continued on outer Point Loma, And in University City, a MacGillivray's Warbler well up in a tipu tree likely set the MGWA Tipu Elevational Record, perhaps according to the Guinness Book of World Records.

--Paul Lehman, San Diego