Good afternoon,

25 people ditched the holiday shopping crowd to enjoy a relaxed and fun morning of great birding in and around Tijuana estuary.  They were rewarded with 3 San Diego county rarities for their efforts; Hepatic Tanager, Black and White Warbler and Green-tailed towhee.  Other birds of note among the 82 species found included; Yellow-crowned night-heron, Little blue heron; Clapper Rail and Wilson’s Snipe.

Complete list follows;

American wigeon

Mallard

Blue-winged teal

Cinnamon teal

Northern shoveler

Northern pintail

Green-winged teal

Lesser scaup

Bufflehead

Red-breasted merganser

Ruddy duck

Eared grebe

Pied-billed grebe

Western grebe

American whote pelican

Brown pelican

Double-crested cormorant

Great blue heron

Great egret

Snowy egret

Little blue heron

Black-crowned night heron

Yellow-crowned night-heron

Turkey vulture

Osprey

White-tailed kite

Norther hariier

Cooper’s hawk

Red-tailed hawk

American kestrel

Clapper rail

Black-bellied plover

Killdeer

American avocet

Willet

Whimbrel

Long-billed curlew

Marbled godwit

Wildon’s snipe

Heerman’s gull

Ring-billed gull

Western gull

Caspian tern

Rock pigeon

Eurasion collared-dove

Mourning dove

Anna’s hummingbird

Belted kingfisher

Black phoebe

Say’s phoebe

Cassin’s kingbird

Loggerhead shrike

American crow

Common raven

Tree swallow

Bushtit

Bewick’s wren

Marsh wren

Western bluebird

Hermit thrush

Wrentit

Northern mockingbird

European starling

American pipit

Orange-crowned warbler

Yellow-rumped warbler(possible Myrtle’s race?)

Back-and-white warbler

Common yellowthroat

Hepatic tanager

Green-tailed towhee

California towhee

Savannah sparrow(beldings)

Song sparrow

White-crowned sparrow

Red-winged blackbird

Western meadowlark

Brewers’ blackbird

Brown-headed cowbird

House finch

Lesser goldfinch

American goldfinch

House sparrow

Thanks to all of the spotters who helped make this a great trip,

Michael