Torrey Pines Docent Society Bird Survey

October 3, 2009

American Wigeon 5

Surf Scoter 6

California Quail 3

Common Loon 1

Pied-billed Grebe 4

Western Grebe 3

Brown Pelican 78

Brandt's Cormorant 3

Double-crested Cormorant 26

Great Blue Heron 4

Great Egret 3

Snowy Egret 8

Green Heron 1

Osprey 3

White-tailed Kite 2

Red-shouldered Hawk (Calif.) 3

Red-tailed Hawk (Western) 5

American Kestrel 4

Peregrine Falcon 2

Clapper Rail 1

Virginia Rail 1

American Coot 3

Black-bellied Plover 10

Snowy Plover 18

Semipalmated Plover 5

Killdeer 4

Greater Yellowlegs 2

Willet 19

Whimbrel (American) 1

Long-billed Curlew 4

Western Sandpiper 17

Least Sandpiper 31

Short-billed/Long-billed Dowitcher 9

Heermann's Gull 70

Ring-billed Gull 3

Western Gull 48

California Gull 6

Caspian Tern 1

Elegant Tern 1

Rock Pigeon 1

Mourning Dove 32

White-throated Swift 7

Anna's Hummingbird 21

Belted Kingfisher 2

Nuttall's Woodpecker 4

Northern Flicker 1

Black Phoebe 21

Say's Phoebe 16

Cassin's Kingbird 10

Western Scrub-Jay 3

Western Scrub-Jay (Coastal) 6

American Crow 8

Common Raven 9

Northern Rough-winged Swallow 2

Cliff Swallow 3

Barn Swallow 2

Bushtit 55

Bewick's Wren 6

House Wren 1

Marsh Wren 3

California Gnatcatcher 5

Wrentit 18

Northern Mockingbird 1

California Thrasher 2

European Starling 6

Orange-crowned Warbler 1

Yellow-rumped Warbler 9

Common Yellowthroat 5

Spotted Towhee 3

California Towhee 23

Rufous-crowned Sparrow 1

Savannah Sparrow (Belding's) 5

Fox Sparrow 1

Song Sparrow 14

White-crowned Sparrow 4

Red-winged Blackbird 3

Western Meadowlark 1

Brewer's Blackbird 19

House Finch 120

Lesser Goldfinch 21

House Sparrow 4

Total of 80 species (unusual sightings shown with an asterisk and in italics)

Observers: Jack Friery; Herbert Knufken, Kathy Dickey, Richard Chance, Blair Francis, Hank and Jane Baele, Don Grine, Gary Grantham and Anonymous