Twenty-four souls decided early this morning that the weather would not be too bad for a birdwalk, and they were right. We were joined by two visitors: one from New Jersey and the other from Virginia. Despite a couple of brief showers, we stayed dry. A final count of fifty-one species was a darn good number for this cold overcast day. We recorded the first ebird sighting for Guajome of the lark sparrow and the blue-gray gnatcacher. Although we had Sixty species last year at this time, it included seven species not usually found at Guajome.

Here is our count:

2 Cinnamon Teal
12 Mallard
2 Canvasback
1 duck sp. Call Duck
2 Pied-billed Grebe
1 Western Grebe
12 Eurasian Collared-Dove
10 Mourning Dove
1 Greater Roadrunner
6 Anna’s Hummingbird
1 Allen’s Hummingbird
2 Common Gallinule
25 American Coot
1 Ring-billed Gull
4 Double-crested Cormorant
2 Great Egret
2 Black-crowned Night-Heron
2 Cooper’s Hawk
1 Red-shouldered Hawk
3 Red-tailed Hawk
1 Red-naped Sapsucker
2 Acorn Woodpecker
1 Downy Woodpecker
2 Nuttall’s Woodpecker
3 Northern Flicker
2 American Kestrel
2 Black Phoebe
3 Say’s Phoebe
1 California Scrub-Jay
20 American Crow
20 Bushtit
3 Marsh Wren
1 Bewick’s Wren
1 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
1 California Gnatcatcher
1 Ruby-crowned Kinglet
1 Wrentit
12 Western Bluebird
3 Northern Mockingbird
50 European Starling
20 Cedar Waxwing
12 House Finch
6 Lesser Goldfinch
1 American Goldfinch
3 Lark Sparrow
3 White-crowned Sparrow
10 Song Sparrow
2 California Towhee
1 Spotted Towhee
1 Red-winged Blackbird
1 Great-tailed Grackle
10 Yellow-rumped Warbler

Leader: Doug Walkley