Hi Friends,

This morning, September 5, thirty-four birders walked around Kit Carson Park and we found 52 bird species.
A good mix of resident and migrating birds.

Here’s our bird list:

Mallard
Pied-billed Grebe
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Egret
Snowy Egret
Green Heron
Black-crowned Night-Heron
Turkey Vulture
Cooper’s Hawk
Red-shouldered Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
American Kestrel
Killdeer
Rock Pigeon
Mourning Dove
Black-chinned Hummingbird
Anna’s Hummingbird
Acorn Woodpecker
Nuttall’s Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Western Wood-Pewee
Pacific-slope Flycatcher
Black Phoebe
Cassin’s Kingbird
Warbling Vireo
Western Scrub-Jay
American Crow
Common Raven
Oak Titmouse
Bushtit
White-breasted Nuthatch
Bewick’s Wren
California Gnatcatcher
Western Bluebird
American Robin
Wrentit
Northern Mockingbird
European Starling
Orange-crowned Warbler
Nashville Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
Wilson’s Warbler
Western Tanager
California Towhee
Song Sparrow
Black-headed Grosbeak
Red-winged Blackbird
Brewer’s Blackbird
Bullock’s Oriole
House Finch
Lesser Goldfinch
Scaly-breasted Munia

JIM BECKMAN, trip leader