Hi Friends,
This is my third consecutive field trip report. I hope you are not getting tired of hearing from me! On Saturday, August 17th, twenty-one birders walked around Santee Lakes on very warm morning. We found 54 bird species and here is our list:

Wood Duck
Mallard
Cinnamon Teal
Pied-billed Grebe
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Snowy Egret
Green Heron
Black-crowned Night-Heron
White-tailed Kite
Cooper’s Hawk
Red-shouldered Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
American Coot
Western Gull
Caspian Tern
Forster’s Tern
Eurasian Collared-Dove
Mourning Dove
Black-chinned Hummingbird
Anna’s Hummingbird
Rufous/Allen’s Hummingbird
Belted Kingfisher
Acorn Woodpecker
Nuttall’s Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Pacific-slope Flycatcher
Black Phoebe
Ash-throated Flycatcher
Cassin’s Kingbird
Western Kingbird
Warbling Vireo
Western Scrub-Jay
American Crow
Common Raven
Cliff Swallow
Bewick’s Wren
Western Bluebird
Yellow Warbler
Townsend’s Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
Wilson’s Warbler
Western Tanager
Spotted Towhee
California Towhee
Song Sparrow
Red-winged Blackbird
Tricolored Blackbird
Great-tailed Grackle
Hooded Oriole
Bullock’s Oriole
House Finch
Lesser Goldfinch

JIM BECKMAN

Photos: Santee Lakes