A wonderful morning for my group of intrepid SFO veterans- all three of them (where were all the rest, it can't be the rain deterred them?). We were joined at first by Mark Chao this morning at Sapsucker Woods, as Mark has already reported. Close, clear view of the MOURNING WARBLER was probably the most spectacular sighting. We saw all the species reported by others in the last few days there except the Blue-winged (Kevin's photo is wonderful!), we had great looks at BAY-BREASTED, BLACKBURNIAN, MAGNOLIA . It got a bit soggy by 9:30 so we got in the car for a bino cleaning and headed over to the Hawthorns, where the rain stopped and the show was just as spectacular as reported by Chris and others the last few days. TENNESSEE WARBLERS were everywhere, i've never seen/heard so many, and all the other species reported by others, especially two PHILADELPHIA VIREOS, seen together in the same tree about halfway along the edge on the Equestrian side. Today there were numerous RED_EYED vireos as well. A single BLUE_WINGED warbler was in the same area. One song from a WINTER WREN was heard, probably down in the ravine on the NW side, a WOOD THRUSH sang constantly, and an E MEADOWLARK sang out in the pasture.
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