Hi Friends,

This morning Saturday Nov 17, thirty birders checked out the South Bay Salt Works in National City. The weather was perfect and we found 66 bird species. We saw lots of Eared Grebes, Brant, and American White Pelicans.
The best bird of the day was the Short-eared Owl which we all observed for about twenty minutes on the ground and nearby rocks.

Here’s our species list:

Brant
American Wigeon
Northern Shoveler
Northern Pintail
Redhead
Scaup sp.
Surf Scoter
Bufflehead
Red-breasted Merganser
Ruddy Duck
Pacific Loon
Pied-billed Grebe
Eared Grebe
Western Grebe
Clark’s Grebe
Double-crested Cormorant
American White Pelican
Brown Pelican
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Snowy Egret
Turkey Vulture
Osprey
White-tailed Kite
Northern Harrier
Red-tailed Hawk
American Coot
Black-necked Stilt
American Avocet
Black-bellied Plover
Semipalmated Plover
Killdeer
Spotted Sandpiper
Greater Yellowlegs
Willet
Whimbrel
Long-billed Curlew
Marbled Godwit
Ruddy Turnstone
Black Turnstone
Sanderling
Dunlin
Least Sandpiper
Western Sandpiper
Long-billed Dowitcher
Bonaparte’s Gull
Ring-billed Gull
Western Gull
California Gull
Herring Gull
Forster’s Tern
Royal Tern
Rock Pigeon
Eurasian Collared Dove
Short-eared Owl
Belted Kingfisher
American Kestrel
Peregrine Falcon
Black Phoebe
Say’s Phoebe
American Crow
Tree Swallow
Northern Rough-winged Swallow
European Starling
American Pipit
House Finch

JIM BECKMAN & DEBBIE GOOD trip leaders