On Saturday morning, August 13, twenty birders walked around Santee Lakes. Tom Trowbridge was our trip leader, and Gail DeLalla kept track of the birds we found. We found 40 bird species. The weather was very hot and humid. I think we were all happy when the walk ended and we could sit at the picnic tables in the shade! We saw lots of Mallards, Wood Ducks, Bushtits, and Great-tailed Grackles. The best bird of the day was watching a juvenile Green Heron walking along the lake shore.
Checkout Gail’s eBird checklist along with some nice photos of the birds we found: https://ebird.org/checklist/S116854581 Many thanks to our photographers: Gail DeLalla, Cathie Canepa, and Tsaiwee Olee.
Here is our bird species list:
Canada Goose Wood Duck Mallard Cinnamon Teal Ring-necked Duck Greater Scaup Pied-billed Grebe Great Blue Heron Great Egret Snowy Egret Green Heron Turkey Vulture Osprey Red-shouldered Hawk Red-tailed Hawk American Coot Eurasian Collared-Dove Mourning Dove Anna’s Hummingbird Acorn Woodpecker Nuttall’s Woodpecker Black Phoebe Cassin’s Kingbird California Scrub-Jay American Crow Common Raven Bushtit Western Bluebird Northern Mockingbird European Starling Common Yellowthroat Lark Sparrow Song Sparrow Red-winged Blackbird Great-tailed Grackle Hooded Oriole House Finch Lesser Goldfinch House Sparrow Scaly-breasted Munia
