Bird Sightings: May 5, 2005

Torrey Pines Docent Society Bird Survey

May 5, 2005

Mallard 10
Gadwall 8
Red-breasted Merganser 1
California Quail 10
Pied-billed Grebe 1
Western Grebe 6
Brown Pelican 16
Double-crested Cormorant 6
Brandt's Cormorant 1
Great Blue Heron 2
Great Egret 6
Snowy Egret 19
Green Heron 1
Black-crowned Night-Heron 1
White-tailed Kite 1
Sharp-shinned/Cooper's Hawk 1
Red-shouldered Hawk 1
Red-tailed Hawk  2
American Kestrel  2
American Coot with babies 6
Semipalmated Plover 16
Killdeer 2
Long-billed Curlew 1
Marbled Godwit 1
Sanderling 65
Western Sandpiper 1
Heermann's Gull 4
California Gull 7
Western Gull 9
Caspian Tern 2
Royal Tern 7
Elegant Tern 58
Forster's Tern 3
Rock Dove 6
Mourning Dove 10
White-throated Swift 3
Anna's Hummingbird 22
Costa's Hummingbird 1
Nuttall's Woodpecker 1
Empidonax sp. 2
Black Phoebe 4
Say's Phoebe (Juvenile) 1
            

Cassin's Kingbird 1

Northern Rough-winged Swallow 19
Cliff Swallow 10
Barn Swallow 5
Western Scrub-Jay 7
American Crow 2
Common Raven 27
Bushtit 6
Bewick's Wren 17
House Wren 1
Marsh Wren 1
Blue-Gray Gnatcatcher 4
California Gnatcatcher 6
Wrentit 6
Northern Mockingbird 1
California Thrasher 2
European Starling 5
Warbling Vireo 4
Orange-crowned Warbler 4
Nashville Warbler 1
Hermit Warbler 1
Common Yellowthroat 11
Wilson's Warbler 1
Yellow-breasted Chat 6
Black-headed Grosbeak 2
Spotted Towhee 19
California Towhee 11
Savannah Sparrow sp. 6
Belding's Savannah Sparrow 12
Song Sparrow 21
Red-winged Blackbird 12
Western Meadowlark 1
Brewer's Blackbird 7
Brown-headed Cowbird 3
House Finch 51
Lesser Goldfinch 19
American Goldfinch 2
House Sparrow 6

Unusual Species:
Ruddy Shelduck 3

Total of 81 species

Weather: clear
Lagoon mouth: open

Observers: Jack Friery, David Blue, Will Cox, Blair Francis, Don Grine, Gary Grantham