Bird Sightings: June 3-4, 2006

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Torrey Pines Docent Society Bird Survey

June 3-4, 2006

Total of 65 species (unusual sightings shown with an asterisk and in italics)

 

Ducks

Gadwall  10

Mallard  9 (with young)

Cinnamon Teal  1

Grebes

Pied-billed Grebe  1

Western Grebe  5

Clark's Grebe*  1

Pelicans

Brown Pelican  12

Cormorants

Double-crested Cormorant  5

Bitterns and Herons

Great Blue Heron  5

Great Egret  7

Snowy Egret  12

Green Heron  2

Black-crowned Night-Heron  2

Ibises

White-faced Ibis  4

Hawks and Kites

White-tailed Kite  2

Red-tailed Hawk  6

Falcons

American Kestrel  2 (carrying food)

Rails and Coots

Clapper Rail * 1 (heard only)

American Coot  3

Plovers

Killdeer  6

Stilts

Black-necked Stilt  2

Gulls and Terns

California Gull  8

Western Gull  53

Caspian Tern  2

Royal Tern  2

Forster's Tern  11

Pigeons and Doves

Rock Pigeon  2

Mourning Dove  25

Swifts

White-throated Swift  12

Hummingbirds

Black-chinned Hummingbird  1

Anna's Hummingbird  15

Tyrant Flycatchers

Pacific-slope Flycatcher  1

Black Phoebe  5

Ash-throated Flycatcher  1

Cassin's Kingbird  4

Jays and Crows

Western Scrub-Jay  9

American Crow  9

Common Raven  16

Swallows

Northern Rough-winged Swallow  21

Cliff Swallow  22

Barn Swallow  2

Bushtits

Bushtit  1 (at nest)

Wrens

Bewick's Wren  5

House Wren  2

Marsh Wren  1 (heard only)

Gnatcatchers

Blue-gray Gnatcatcher  1

California Gnatcatcher  3

Babblers

Wrentit  19

Mockingbirds

Northern Mockingbird  5

Silky-flycatchers

Phainopepla  1

Wood-Warblers

Orange-crowned Warbler  1

Yellow Warbler  1

Yellow-breasted Chat  1

Emberizids

Spotted Towhee  9

California Towhee  16

Savannah Sparrow  5

Belding's Savannah Sparrow  2

Song Sparrow  18

Grosbeaks

Black-headed Grosbeak  2

Blackbirds

Red-winged Blackbird  35

Brewer's Blackbird  8

Brown-headed Cowbird  2

Hooded Oriole  2

Finches

House Finch  118

Lesser Goldfinch  14

American Goldfinch  1

 

Weather: clear

Lagoon mouth: open

 

Observers: Hank & Jane Baele, David Blue, Kathy Estey, Jack Friery, and Gary Grantham

 

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