Bird Sightings: August 5-6, 2005

Gadwall  1
Mallard  5
California Quail  3
Common Loon  1
Pied-billed Grebe  1
Double-crested Cormorant  3
Great Blue Heron  8
Great Egret  21
Snowy Egret  9
Little Blue Heron  1
Black-crowned Night-Heron  1
Osprey  1
Red-tailed Hawk  2
American Kestrel  1
American Coot  1
Black-bellied Plover  7
Snowy Plover  4
Semipalmated Plover  8
Killdeer  2
Black-necked Stilt  2
Willet  42
Wandering Tattler  1
Whimbrel  6
Long-billed Curlew  5
Marbled Godwit  3
Peep sp.  25
Sanderling  7
Western Sandpiper  2
Heermann's Gull  163
Ring-billed Gull  1
California Gull  10
Western Gull  88
Caspian Tern  3

Royal Tern  110
Elegant Tern  22
Common Tern  1
Forster's Tern  1
Least Tern  1
Rock Pigeon  1
Mourning Dove  28
White-throated Swift  1
Anna's Hummingbird  18
Nuttall's Woodpecker  3
Black Phoebe  10
Cassin's Kingbird  3
Loggerhead Shrike  1
Western Scrub-Jay  8
American Crow  11
Common Raven  13
Bushtit  35
House Wren  2
California Gnatcatcher  6
Wrentit  7
Northern Mockingbird  1
Orange-crowned Warbler  2
Common Yellowthroat  2
Spotted Towhee  2
California Towhee  35
Savannah Sparrow  12
Song Sparrow  8
Black-headed Grosbeak  1
Red-winged Blackbird  11
Brewer's Blackbird  18
Hooded Oriole  1
House Finch  113
Lesser Goldfinch  13

Total of 66 species.    Unusual species in bold.

Weather: cloudy

Lagoon mouth: open

Observers: Hank Baele, Will Cox, Kathy Estey, Blair Francis, Jack Friery, and Gary Grantham