Torrey Pines Docent Society Bird Survey

March 7, 2009

Ruddy Shelduck 1 (Non-native)

Gadwall 25

American Wigeon 14

Mallard 4

Cinnamon Teal 6

Northern Shoveler 25

Northern Pintail 1

Green-winged Teal 25

Lesser Scaup 22

Bufflehead 9

Ruddy Duck 25

California Quail 8

Pied-billed Grebe 3

Western Grebe 1

Brown Pelican 40

Brandt's Cormorant 60

Double-crested Cormorant 12

Great Blue Heron 3

Great Egret 6

Snowy Egret 19

White-faced Ibis 130

White-tailed Kite 1

Northern Harrier 1

Cooper's Hawk 2

Red-shouldered Hawk 2

Red-tailed Hawk 9

Peregrine Falcon 1

Common Moorhen 3

American Coot 19

Snowy Plover 23

Semipalmated Plover 4

Willet 6

Long-billed Curlew 1

Marbled Godwit 1

Sanderling 9

Western Sandpiper 3

Least Sandpiper 12

peep sp. 20

Heermann's Gull 10

Ring-billed Gull 7

Western Gull 3

California Gull 2

Caspian Tern 12

Royal Tern 2

Eurasian Collared-Dove 1

Mourning Dove 9

White-throated Swift 14

Anna's Hummingbird 23

Rufous/Allen's Hummingbird 8

Belted Kingfisher 2

Nuttall's Woodpecker 1

Northern Flicker 1

Black Phoebe 17

Tropical Kingbird 1 *(Rare)

Cassin's Kingbird 1

Western Scrub-Jay 4

American Crow 24

Common Raven 26

Tree Swallow 4

Northern Rough-winged Swallow 14

Bushtit 22

Bewick's Wren 5

House Wren 2

Marsh Wren 2

Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 1

California Gnatcatcher 5

Hermit Thrush 1

Wrentit 10

Northern Mockingbird 1

California Thrasher 2

Orange-crowned Warbler 2

Yellow-rumped Warbler 4

Common Yellowthroat 5

Spotted Towhee 10

California Towhee 21

Savannah Sparrow (Belding's) 8

Song Sparrow 16

White-crowned Sparrow 10

Golden-crowned Sparrow 1

Red-winged Blackbird 12

Brewer's Blackbird 3

House Finch 44

Lesser Goldfinch 21

House Sparrow 1

Total of 84 species (unusual sightings shown with an asterisk and in italics)

Observers: Gary Grantham, Hank & Jane Baele, Will Cox, Herb Knufken, and Jack Friery.