Bird Sightings: October 7, 2006

Torrey Pines Docent Society Bird Survey

October 7 , 2006

Total of 91 species (unusual sightings shown with an asterisk and in italics)
Ducks

Gadwall  5

American Wigeon  4

Mallard  9

Teal sp.  3 (females)

Quail

California Quail  2

Loons

Pacific Loon*  1

Common Loon  1

Grebes

Pied-billed Grebe  5

Eared Grebe  15

Clark's Grebe* 2

Shearwaters and Petrels

Black-vented Shearwater*  10

Pelicans

Brown Pelican  10

Cormorants

Brandt's Cormorant  20

Double-crested Cormorant  165

Herons and Egrets

Great Blue Heron  7

Great Egret  2

Snowy Egret  9

Hawks and Kites

Osprey  2                          

White-tailed Kite  2

Cooper's Hawk  1

Red-shouldered Hawk  2

Red-tailed Hawk  2

Falcons

American Kestrel  2

Merlin*  1

Rails, Moorhens, and Coots

Clapper Rail*  1

Sora*  1

Common Moorhen*  1

American Coot  2

Plovers

Semipalmated Plover  6

Killdeer  8

Sandpipers

Lesser Yellowlegs  1

Willet  35

Spotted Sandpiper*  2

Marbled Godwit  2

Sanderling  8

Western Sandpiper  3

Least Sandpiper  38

Gulls and Terns

Heermann's Gull  56

Ring-billed Gull  3

Western Gull  43

Royal Tern  2

Elegant Tern  1

Forster's Tern  6

Pigeons and Doves

Rock Pigeon  2

Mourning Dove  21

Swifts

Vaux's Swift*  20

White-throated Swift  31

Hummingbirds

Anna's Hummingbird  16

Rufous/Allen's Hummingbird*  
1

Kingfishers

Belted Kingfisher  2

Woodpeckers

Nuttall's Woodpecker  2

Downy Woodpecker  2

Northern Flicker  8

Tyrant Flycatchers

Pacific-slope Flycatcher  1

Black Phoebe  14

Say's Phoebe  11

Cassin's Kingbird  2

Shrikes

Loggerhead Shrike  1

Vireos

Hutton's Vireo*  2

Jays and Crows

Western Scrub-Jay  20

American Crow  108

Common Raven  8

Swallows

Northern Rough-winged Swallow  2

Barn Swallow  2

Bushtits

Bushtit  45

Wrens

Bewick's Wren  1

House Wren  3

Marsh Wren  1 (heard only)

Kinglets

Ruby-crowned Kinglet  1

Gnatcatchers

Blue-gray Gnatcatcher  1

California Gnatcatcher  10

Wrentits

Wrentit  24

Mockingbirds and Thrashers

Northern Mockingbird  1

California Thrasher  9

Starlings

European Starling  2

Wood-Warblers

Orange-crowned Warbler  3

Yellow-rumped Warbler  12

Common Yellowthroat  20

Wilson's Warbler  1

Emberizids

Spotted Towhee  4

California Towhee  28

Belding's Savannah Sparrow  2

Fox Sparrow*  1

Song Sparrow  11

White-crowned Sparrow  17

Golden-crowned Sparrow*  1

Blackbirds

Red-winged Blackbird  26

Western Meadowlark  3

Brewer's Blackbird  6

Finches

Lesser Goldfinch  36

Old World Sparrows

House Sparrow  163

Weather: clear

Lagoon mouth: open

Observers:   Observers: Hank & Jane Baele, Will Cox, Kathy Estey, Jack Friery, and Gary Grantham