Hi Friends,

On Saturday September 21, twenty birders walked around Kumeyaay Lake and we found 41 bird species. The weather was great for a real late Summer Season day.

Lots of House Finches and Mourning Doves. Best birds were the Red-necked Phalaropes, Common Gallinules, and our first bird of the day, a nice Downy Woodpecker.

Here is our bird list:

Gadwall
Mallard
Pied-billed Grebe
Great Egret
Snowy Egret
Green Heron
Black-crowned Night-Heron
Northern Harrier
Cooper’s Hawk
Common Gallinule
American Coot
Red-necked Phalarope
Rock Pigeon
Mourning Dove
Greater Roadrunner
Anna’s Hummingbird
Nuttall’s Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
American Kestrel
Pacific-slope Flycatcher
Black Phoebe
Cassin’s Kingbird
Warbling Vireo
California Scrub-Jay
American Crow
Swallow sp.
Bushtit
House Wren
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Wrentit
Orange-crowned Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
Spotted Towhee
California Towhee
Song Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow
Red-winged Blackbird
House Finch
Lesser Goldfinch
Scaly-breasted Munia

JIM BECKMAN trip leader