Hi Everyone,

This morning, twenty-eight birders checked out Batiquitos Lagoon in Carlsbad. We found 50 bird species.
Great looks at a Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, Belted Kingfisher, and a lone flyover American White Pelican.
Perfect weather and here is our species list:

Gadwall
Pied-billed Grebe
Eared Grebe
Double-crested Cormorant
American White Pelican
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Snowy Egret
Turkey Vulture
Osprey
Cooper’s Hawk
Red-shouldered Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
Ridgway’s Rail
American Coot
Black-bellied Plover
Semipalmated Plover
Killdeer
Willet
Whimbrel
Long-billed Curlew
Marbled Godwit
Western Sandpiper
Dowitcher Sp.
Ring-billed Gull
Western Gull
Mourning Dove
Vaux’s Swift
Anna’s Hummingbird
Belted Kingfisher
Nuttall’s Woodpecker
Black Phoebe
Cassin’s Kingbird
California Scrub-Jay
American Crow
Barn Swallow
Bushtit
House Wren
Marsh Wren
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
California Gnatcatcher
Wrentit
Northern Mockingbird
Common Yellowthroat
California Towhee
Savannah Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Red-winged Blackbird
House Finch
Scaly-breasted Munia

JIM BECKMAN, trip leader