Hi Friends,

This morning, March 7, eleven birders walked around Dairy Mart ponds and the Bird & Butterfly Garden.
The weather was perfect, we had a great time, and we found 59 bird species. Here’s our list:

Gadwall
Mallard
Cinnamon Teal
Northern Shoveler
Northern Pintail
Green-winged Teal
Lesser Scaup
Bufflehead
Ruddy Duck
Pied-billed Grebe
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Black-crowned Night-Heron
White-tailed Kite
Northern Harrier
Cooper’s Hawk
Red-shouldered Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
American Coot
Black-necked Stilt
Ring-billed Gull
California Gull
Herring Gull
Western Gull
Mourning Dove
Anna’s Hummingbird
Allen’s Hummingbird
Nuttall’s Woodpecker
Downey Woodpecker
Black Phoebe
Cassin’s Kingbird
Western Kingbird
Hutton’s Vireo
American Crow
Common Raven
Tree Swallow
Northern Rough-winged Swallow
Bewick’s Wren
House Wren
Bushtit
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Hermit Thrush
Wrentit
American Pipit
Cedar Waxwing
Orange-crowned Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
Spotted Towhee
California Towhee
Savannah Sparrow
Song Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
Red-winged Blackbird
House Finch
Lesser Goldfinch
American Goldfinch

JIM BECKMAN