Hi Everyone,
Yesterday, January 17, thirty birders walked around Dos Picos County Park and Rangeland Road in Ramona and found 61 different bird species. The weather was perfect. Birds of the day were 5 varied thrushes and a purple finch at Dos Picos. Lots of Mountain Bluebirds and a Bald Eagle on Rangeland Road. Here’s our list of species:

Canada Goose
Snow Goose
Wood Duck
Gadwall
Mallard
Northern Shoveler
Northern Pintail
Ring-necked Duck
Bufflehead
Ruddy Duck
Horned grebe
Turkey Vulture
Bald Eagle
Red-shouldered Hawk
Red-Tailed Hawk
Ferruginous Hawk
American Kestrel
Peregrine Falcon
Prairie Falcon
American Coot
Kildeer
White-throated Swift
Anna’s Hummingbird
Costa’s Hummingbird
Acorn Woodpecker
Nuttal’s Woodpecker
Black Phoebe
Say’s Phoebe
Cassin’s Kingbird
Hutton’s Vireo
Western Scrub Jay
American Crow
Common Raven
Oak Titmouse
Bushtit
White-breasted Nuthatch
Bewick’s Wren
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Western Bluebird
Mountain Bluebird
Hermit Thrush
Varied Thrush
Wrentit
Northern Mockingbird
European Starling
American Pipit
Cedar Waxwing
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Spotted Towhee
California Towhee
Chipping Sparrow
Song Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
Red-winged Blackbird
Tricolored Blackbird
Western Meadowlark
Brewer’s Blackbird
Purple Finch
House Finch
Lesser Goldfinch
House Sparrow

Hal Benham