Bird Sightings: July 1-2, 2006

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Torrey Pines Docent Society Bird Survey

July 1-2, 2006

Total of 67 species (unusual sightings shown with an asterisk and in italics)

 

Ducks

Gadwall  8 (With young)

Mallard  8

Ruddy Duck*  1

New World Quail

California Quail  1

Grebes

Pied-billed Grebe  3

Pelicans

Brown Pelican  7

Cormorants

Double-crested Cormorant  6

Bitterns and Herons

Great Blue Heron  1

Great Egret  10

Snowy Egret  11

Little Blue Heron*  1

Green Heron  2

Black-crowned Night-Heron  1

Ibises

White-faced Ibis*  2

Vultures

Turkey Vulture*  1

Hawks and Kites

Accipiter sp.  1

Cooper's Hawk  2

Red-tailed Hawk  2

Falcons

American Kestrel  1

Rails and Coots

American Coot  3

Plovers

Black-bellied Plover  1

Killdeer  5

Sandpipers

Willet  14

Sanderling*  6

Gulls and Terns

Heermann's Gull  12

Ring-billed Gull  2

California Gull  1

Western Gull  43

Caspian Tern  5

Royal Tern  6

Forster's Tern  6

Pigeons and Doves

Mourning Dove  23

Swifts

White-throated Swift  3 

Hummingbirds

Anna's Hummingbird  26

Woodpeckers

Nuttall's Woodpecker  4

Downy Woodpecker*  1

Tyrant Flycatchers

Black Phoebe  1

Ash-throated Flycatcher  2

Cassin's Kingbird  3

Jays and Crows

Western Scrub-Jay  5

American Crow  35

Common Raven  20

Swallows

Northern Rough-winged Swallow  26

Cliff Swallow  22

Barn Swallow*  1

Bushtits

Bushtit  13

Wrens

Bewick's Wren  1

House Wren  1

Gnatcatchers

California Gnatcatcher  5

Babblers

Wrentit  25

Mockingbirds and Thrashers

Northern Mockingbird  5

Starlings

European Starling  2

Wood-Warblers

Common Yellowthroat  17

Yellow-breasted Chat  1 (heard only)

Emberizids

Spotted Towhee  14

California Towhee  32

Savannah Sparrow  1

Belding's Savannah Sparrow  2

Song Sparrow  6

Grosbeaks

Black-headed Grosbeak  1

Blackbirds

Red-winged Blackbird  11

Brewer's Blackbird  15

Brown-headed Cowbird  2

Hooded Oriole  3

Finches

House Finch  119

Lesser Goldfinch  35

Old World Sparrows

House Sparrow  3

Weather: clear

Lagoon mouth: open

 

Observers: Will Cox, Kathy Estey, Blair Francis, Jack Friery, and Gary Grantham, Don Grine

 

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