Bird Sightings: June 4, 2005

Torrey Pines Docent Society Bird Survey

June 4, 2005

Mallard  12 
California Quail  8 
Pied-billed Grebe  2 
Sooty Shearwater  900+ 
Brown Booby  14 
Double-crested Cormorant  7 
Great Blue Heron  5 
Great Egret  10 
Snowy Egret  10 
Black-crowned Night-Heron  1 
White-tailed Kite  1 
Red-tailed Hawk  2 
American Kestrel  4 
American Coot  2 (juveniles)
Semipalmated Plover  15 
Killdeer  3 
Long-billed Curlew  1 
California Gull  3 
Western Gull  45 
Royal Tern  2 
Forster's Tern  4 
Black Skimmer  1 
Rock Pigeon  1 
Mourning Dove  12 
Great Horned Owl  1 (juvenile?) 
White-throated Swift  17 
Anna's Hummingbird  7 
Rufous/Allen's Hummingbird  1 
Nuttall's Woodpecker  1 

Black Phoebe  5 
Say's Phoebe  1 
Cassin's Kingbird  4 
Western Scrub-Jay  7 
American Crow  3 
Common Raven  27 
Tree Swallow  1 
Northern Rough-winged Swallow  70 
Cliff Swallow  33 
Bushtit  33 
House Wren  4 
California Gnatcatcher  2 
Wrentit  15 
Northern Mockingbird  1 
European Starling  20 
Common Yellowthroat  5 
Spotted Towhee  5 
California Towhee  16 
Savannah Sparrow  13 
Song Sparrow  13 
Black-headed Grosbeak  3 
Red-winged Blackbird  32 
Western Meadowlark  1 
Brewer's Blackbird  9 
Hooded Oriole  1 
House Finch  83 
Lesser Goldfinch  3 
House Sparrow  1 
Ruddy Shelduck  3 

Total of 58 species.  Unusual species shown in bold.

Weather: cool and foggy

 Lagoon mouth: open

Observers:

Hank Baele, David Blue, Kathy Estey, Blair Francis, and Don Grine.