Hi Friends,

On Saturday May 26, fourteen birders walked the Sweetwater River Gorge trail at Rancho San Diego.
We found 34 bird species. The weather was very comfortable, cool and overcast. A fun walk for everybody!
We saw five warbler species, three different flycatchers, and two vireo species. While hearing the constant call
of the Yellow-breasted Chat, we were determined to actually find the bird, and eventually we located several individuals.

Here is our bird species list:

California Quail
Red-shouldered Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
Rock Pigeon
Mourning Dove
Anna’s Hummingbird
Hummingbird sp.
Nuttall’s Woodpecker
American Kestrel
Western Wood-Pewee
Pacific-slope Flycatcher
Ash-throated Flycatcher
Bell’s Vireo
Warbling Vireo
Common Raven
Cliff Swallow
Bushtit
House Wren
Wrentit
Western Bluebird
Northern Mockingbird
Phainopepla
Orange-crowned Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
Yellow Warbler
Townsend’s Warbler
Yellow-breasted Chat
Spotted Towhee
California Towhee
Song Sparrow
Hooded Oriole
House Finch
Lesser Goldfinch
Scaly-breasted Munia

JIM BECKMAN, trip leader