Hi Everyone,
Yesterday, December 7, thirteen birders braved some pretty rough weather at Lake Elsinore, but we managed to find 53 different bird species. The bird of the day had to be the Burrowing Owl. Here’s our list:

Gadwall
American Wigeon
Mallard
Northern Shoveler
Blue-winged Teal
Ring-necked Duck
Ruddy Duck
Eared Grebe
Western Grebe
Clark’s Grebe
American White Pelican
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Snowy Egret
Turkey Vulture
Northern Harrier
Red-tailed Hawk
American Coot
Killdeer
Black-necked Stilt
Greater Yellowlegs
Spotted Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
Long-billed Dowitcher
Bonaparte’s Gull
Ring-billed Gull
California Gull
Herring Gull
Mourning Dove
Greater Roadrunner
Burrowing Owl
Anna’s Hummingbird
Nuttall’s Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Black Phoebe
Say’s Phoebe
American Crow
Common Raven
Horned Lark
Bushtit
Bewick’s Wren
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
American Pipit
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
California Towhee
Savannah Sparrow
Song Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow
House Finch
House Sparrow

JIM BECKMAN