Hi Everyone,

Yesterday, June 28, seventeen birders met up at Palomar Mountain State Park for our last PAS mountain field trip for 2014. The weather was perfect and we all had a great time.

We found 43 bird species. Lot’s of Purple Finches. Other good finds were a pair of Lawrence’s Goldfinches, a Red-breasted Nuthatch, and a Townsend’s Warbler. Here’s our list:

Mallard

Wild Turkey

Mountain Quail

California Quail

Turkey Vulture

Cooper’s Hawk

Red-shouldered Hawk

Red-tailed Hawk

Band-tailed Pigeon

Anna’s Hummingbird

Rufous/Allen’s Hummingbird

Acorn Woodpecker

Nuttall’s Woodpecker

Northern Flicker

Western Wood-Pewee

Pacific-slope Flycatcher

Ash-throated Flycatcher

Steller’s Jay

American Crow

Common Raven

Violet-green Swallow

Mountain Chickadee

Oak Titmouse

Bushtit

Red-breasted Nuthatch

White-breasted Nuthatch

House Wren

Western Bluebird

American Robin

Wrentit

Phainopepla

Townsend’s Warbler

Common Yellowthroat

Western Tanager

Spotted Towhee

Song Sparrow

Dark-eyed Junco

Black-headed Grosbeak

Red-winged Blackbird

Bullock’s Oriole

Purple Finch

Lesser Goldfinch

Lawrence’s Goldfinch

JIM BECKMAN  trip leader