Torrey Pines Docent Society Bird Survey

Oct 5-6, 2007

Ducks & Geese

Gadwall  6

American Wigeon  6

Mallard  4

Northern Shoveler  4

Northern Pintail  2

Surf Scoter  6

Ruddy Duck  2

Quail

California Quail  17

Grebes

Pied-billed Grebe  6

Eared Grebe  1

Shearwaters

Black-vented Shearwater

    20

Pelicans

Brown Pelican  12

Cormorants

Double-crested Cormorant  5

Herons & Egrets

Great Blue Heron  1

Great Egret  4

Snowy Egret  6

Ibises

White-faced Ibis  1

Hawks & Kites

Osprey  2

Northern Harrier  1

Accipiter sp.  1

Cooper's Hawk  4

Red-shouldered Hawk  1

Red-tailed Hawk  6

Falcons

American Kestrel  6

Plovers

Snowy Plover  17

Killdeer  2

Sandpipers & Phalaropes

Spotted Sandpiper  1

Willet  8

Long-billed Curlew  1

Western Sandpiper  50

Least Sandpiper  30

Gulls & Terns

Heermann's Gull  30

Ring-billed Gull  4

California Gull  4

Western Gull  32

Caspian Tern  1

Royal Tern  3

Pigeons & Doves

Rock Pigeon  10

Mourning Dove  8

Swifts

Vaux's Swift  7

Hummingbirds

Anna's Hummingbird  23

Kingfishers

Belted Kingfisher  2

Woodpeckers

Nuttall's Woodpecker  7

Tyrant Flycatchers

Pacific-slope Flycatcher  1

Black Phoebe  9

Say's Phoebe  5

Cassin's Kingbird  2

Jays and Crows

Western Scrub-Jay  13

American Crow  57

Common Raven  16

Swallows

Cliff Swallow  2

Barn Swallow  6

Bushtits

Bushtit  13

Wrens

Bewick's Wren  5

House Wren  2

Marsh Wren  1 (heard only)

Gnatcatchers

California Gnatcatcher  6

Wrentits

Wrentit  11

Mockingbirds & Thrashers

Northern Mockingbird  1

Starlings

European Starling  1

Wood-Warblers

Yellow-rumped Warbler

   25

Common Yellowthroat  6

Emberizids

Green-tailed Towhee*  1

Spotted Towhee  1

California Towhee  14

Rufous-crowned Sparrow

   1

Savannah Sparrow  4

Song Sparrow  10

White-crowned Sparrow

  19

Blackbirds

Red-winged Blackbird  40

Finches

House Finch  85

Lesser Goldfinch  7

Total of 72 species (unusual sightings shown with an asterisk and in italics)

Observers: Blair Francis, David Blue, Gary Grantham, Hank & Jane Baele, Herb Knufken, Jack Friery, Kathy Estey, Will Cox