Hi Everyone,
Yesterday, January 18, twenty four birders walked around Dos Picos County Park and Rangeland Road in Ramona and found 67 different bird species. The weather was perfect. Good looks at a Green Heron, Loggerhead Shrike, and a Red-naped Sapsucker at Dos Picos. Lots of Mountain Bluebirds and a pair of Bald Eagles on Rangeland Road. Here’s our list of species:

Canada Goose
Wood Duck
American Wigeon
Mallard
Northern Shoveler
Green-winged Teal
Ring-necked Duck
Bufflehead
Ruddy Duck
Pied-billed Grebe
Cattle Egret
Green Heron
Turkey Vulture
Bald Eagle
Cooper’s Hawk
Red-shouldered Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
Ferruginous Hawk
American Kestrel
Prairie Falcon
American Coot
Mourning Dove
White-throated Swift
Anna’s Hummingbird
Belted Kingfisher
Acorn Woodpecker
Red-naped Sapsucker
Nuttall’s Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Black Phoebe
Say’s Phoebe
Cassin’s Kingbird
Loggerhead Shrike
Western Scrub-Jay
American Crow
Common Raven
Oak titmouse
Bushtit
White-breasted Nuthatch
House Wren
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Western Bluebird
Mountain Bluebird
Hermit Thrush
American Robin
Wrentit
Northern Mockingbird
European Starling
American Pipit
Orange-crowned Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
Spotted Towhee
California Towhee
Lark Sparrow
Fox Sparrow
Song Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
Red-winged Blackbird
Tricolored Blackbird
Western Meadowlark
Brewer’s Blackbird
Brown-headed Cowbird
House-Finch
Lesser Goldfinch
House Sparrow

JIM BECKMAN