Torrey Pines Docent Society Bird Survey

July 7-8, 2007

Ducks & Geese

Gadwall  9 (1 juv.)

Ruddy Duck  1

Quail

California Quail  7

Grebes

Pied-billed Grebe  9

Pelicans

Brown Pelican  7

Cormorants

Brandt's Cormorant  1

Double-crested Cormorant  5

Herons & Egrets

Great Blue Heron  4

Great Egret  8

Snowy Egret  17

Black-crowned Night-Heron   2

Ibises

White-faced Ibis  2

Hawks & Kites

Cooper's Hawk  2

Red-tailed Hawk  4

Falcons

Peregrine Falcon  1

Rails & Coots

American Coot  1

Sandpipers & Phalaropes

Willet  6

Whimbrel  4

Western Sandpiper  7

Gulls & Terns

Heermann's Gull  24

Ring-billed Gull  5

California Gull  1

Western Gull  25

Caspian Tern  9

Forster's Tern  1

Elegant Tern  18

Pigeons & Doves

Rock Pigeon  5

Mourning Dove  31

Swifts

White-throated Swift  11

Hummingbirds

Anna's Hummingbird  20

Woodpeckers

Nuttall's Woodpecker  6

Downy Woodpecker  1

Tyrant Flycatchers

Black Phoebe  6

Say's Phoebe  1

Ash-throated Flycatcher  5

Cassin's Kingbird  3

Jays and Crows

Western Scrub-Jay  7

American Crow  30

Common Raven  17

Swallows

Northern Rough-winged Swallow  8

Cliff Swallow  56

Barn Swallow  2

Bushtits

Bushtit  22

Wrens

House Wren  1

Marsh Wren  2

Gnatcatchers

California Gnatcatcher  5

Wrentits

Wrentit  19

Mockingbirds & Thrashers

Northern Mockingbird  7

California Thrasher  1

Silky-flycatchers

Phainopepla  5

Wood-Warblers

Yellow Warbler  1

Common Yellowthroat  12

Yellow-breasted Chat  3

Towhees & Sparrows

Spotted Towhee  5

California Towhee  29

Rufous-crowned Sparrow  2

Belding's Savannah Sparrow  6

Song Sparrow  6

Grosbeaks

Black-headed Grosbeak  2

Blackbirds

Red-winged Blackbird  53

Brewer's Blackbird  15

Brown-headed Cowbird  1

Hooded Oriole  3 (1 juv.)

Finches

House Finch  188

Lesser Goldfinch  18

American Goldfinch  1

Total of 66 species (unusual sightings shown with an asterisk and in italics)

Observers:

Hank & Jane Baele, Will Cox, Blair Francis, Jack Friery, Gary Grantham, Don Grine, Herb Knufken