Bird Sightings: October 1, 2005

Gadwall 10
Mallard 2
California Quail 8
Common Loon 2
Pied-billed Grebe 10
Eared Grebe 1
Brown Pelican 89
Cormorant sp. 200
Brandt's Cormorant 8
Double-crested Cormorant 6
Great Blue Heron 3
Great Egret 6
Snowy Egret 9
Osprey 3
White-tailed Kite 3
Cooper's Hawk 2
Red-shouldered Hawk 5
Red-tailed Hawk 4
American Kestrel 5
Black-bellied Plover 3
Snowy Plover 6
Semipalmated Plover 7
Killdeer 2
Greater Yellowlegs 1
Willet 35
Wandering Tattler 3
Spotted Sandpiper 1
Whimbrel 4
Long-billed Curlew 4
Marbled Godwit 7
Black Turnstone 2
Sanderling 20
Western Sandpiper 150
Least Sandpiper 50
Dunlin 2
Long-billed Dowitcher 30
Jaeger sp. 1
Heermann's Gull 220
Ring-billed Gull 15
California Gull 30
Western Gull 80
Royal Tern 2
Rock Pigeon 5
Mourning Dove 19
 

White-throated Swift 4
Anna's Hummingbird 15
Belted Kingfisher 1
Nuttall's Woodpecker 1
Pacific-slope Flycatcher 1
Black Phoebe 16
Say's Phoebe 12
Cassin's Kingbird 3
Warbling Vireo 2
Western Scrub-Jay 7
American Crow 42
Common Raven 14
Northern Rough-winged Swallow 2
Bushtit 53
Bewick's Wren 3
House Wren 7
Marsh Wren 1
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 2
California Gnatcatcher 6
Hermit Thrush 1
Wrentit 13
Northern Mockingbird 2
California Thrasher 4
European Starling 4
Orange-crowned Warbler 1
Yellow-rumped Warbler 19
Black-throated Gray Warbler 1
Townsend's Warbler 1
Grace's Warbler 1 (seen on 9/30/05)
Common Yellowthroat 7
Western Tanager 1
Spotted Towhee 6
California Towhee 45
Brewer's Sparrow 1
Lark Sparrow 1
Savannah Sparrow 7
Song Sparrow 27
White-crowned Sparrow 3
Red-winged Blackbird 15
Western Meadowlark 11
Brewer's Blackbird 5
House Finch 224
Lesser Goldfinch 10
 

Total of 87 species

Weather: clear

Lagoon mouth: open.

Observers:

Hank & Jane Baele, Dave Blue, Will Cox, Kathy Estey (compiler), Don Grine, and Gary Grantham