Bird Sightings: September 5, 2006

Torrey Pines Docent Society Bird Survey

September 2 , 2006

Total of 69 species (unusual sightings shown with an asterisk and in italics)

Ducks
Gadwall  4
Mallard  68
Ruddy Duck  1
New World Quail
California Quail  8
Grebes
Pied-billed Grebe  13
Pelicans
Brown Pelican  14
Cormorants
Double-crested Cormorant  2
Bitterns and Herons
Great Blue Heron  2
Great Egret  9
Snowy Egret  8
Green Heron  2
Black-crowned Night-Heron  2
Ospreys, Hawks, & Kites
Osprey  1
White-tailed Kite  3
Red-tailed Hawk  3
Falcons
American Kestrel  6
Rails
Clapper Rail* 1
Plovers
Black-bellied Plover  7
Snowy Plover  16
Semipalmated Plover  3
Killdeer  8
Stilts and Avocets
Black-necked Stilt  2
Sandpipers and Phalaropes
Greater Yellowlegs  1
Willet  18
Whimbrel  3
Long-billed Curlew  1
Marbled Godwit  7
Ruddy Turnstone*  1
Sanderling  60
Western Sandpiper  7
Least Sandpiper  2
Red-necked Phalarope*  6
Gulls and Terns
Heermann's Gull  65
California Gull  1
Western Gull  21
Royal Tern  3
Elegant Tern  12
Forster's Tern  11
Least Tern  1

Doves
Mourning Dove  12
Swifts
White-throated Swift  2
Hummingbirds
Anna's Hummingbird  41
Kingfishers
Belted Kingfisher  2
Woodpeckers
Nuttall's Woodpecker  4
Tyrant Flycatchers
Black Phoebe  17
Cassin's Kingbird  3
Jays and Crows
Western Scrub-Jay  21
American Crow  38
Common Raven  2
Swallows
Northern Rough-winged Swallow  2
Cliff Swallow  6
Bushtits
Bushtit  28
Wrens
House Wren  10
Gnatcatchers
California Gnatcatcher  18
Babblers
Wrentit  34
Mockingbirds and Thrashers
Northern Mockingbird  1
California Thrasher  6
Wood-Warblers
Orange-crowned Warbler  1
Common Yellowthroat  10
Emberizids
Spotted Towhee  9
California Towhee  25
Savannah Sparrow  10
Belding's Savannah Sparrow  3
Song Sparrow  16
Grosbeaks
Black-headed Grosbeak  1
Blackbirds
Red-winged Blackbird  6
Brewer's Blackbird  8
Finches
House Finch  52
Lesser Goldfinch  13

Weather: clear

Lagoon mouth: open

Observers:   David Blue, Will Cox, Blair Francis, Kathy Estey, Jack Friery, Gary Grantham, and Herbert Knufken