Hi Birders,

On Saturday December 29, sixteen birders walked around Dixon Lake and we found 46 bird species. At the start of the walk it was very cold (~40 deg.) but warmed up slightly for a comfortable hike. I think the cold weather kept a lot of the birds hunkered down. Lots of Yellow-rumped Warblers though. Best birds were the colorful male Redhead and the very cooperative Rufous-crowned Sparrow.

Here’s our species list:

American Wigeon
Mallard
Northern Shoveler
Redhead
Ring-necked Duck
Lesser Scaup
Bufflehead
Ruddy Duck
Pied-billed Grebe
Eared Grebe
Double-crested Cormorant
American White Pelican
Snowy Egret
Black-crowned Night-Heron
Turkey Vulture
Osprey
Red-tailed Hawk
American Coot
Ring-billed Gull
Mourning Dove
Anna’s Hummingbird
Belted Kingfisher
Acorn Woodpecker
Nuttall’s Woodpecker
Black Phoebe
Cassin’s Kingbird
California Scrub-Jay
American Crow
Common Raven
Bushtit
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Wrentit
Western Bluebird
American Robin
California Thrasher
Northern Mockingbird
Orange-crowned Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Rufous-crowned Sparrow
California Towhee
White-crowned Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
Red-winged Blackbird
Great-tailed Grackle
House Finch
Lesser Goldfinch

JIM BECKMAN trip leader