It was hot! It was muggy! But, it was fun none the less! Penny Hernandez led
our outing today. I step in to record our sightings for her. After starting
out as a group of 20, we lost 7 birders along the way due to the conditions, but
Penny held out to just about the end of the walk. We enjoyed some new birders
today who joined us, and we enjoyed these birds:
Least Bittern
Great Egret
Snowy Egret
Green Heron
Black-crowned Night Heron
Cooper’s Hawk
Red-shouldered Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
Common Gallinule
American Coot
Solitary Sandpiper
Mourning Dove
Anna’s Hummingbird
Selasphorus Hummingbird
Acorn Woodpecker
Nuttall’s Woodpecker
Pacific-slope Flycatcher
Black Phoebe
Cassin’s Kingbird
Hutton’s Vireo
Warbling Vireo
Western Scrub-Jay
American Crow
Common Raven
Mountain Chickadee
Oak Titmouse
Bushtit
White-breasted Nuthatch
Bewick’s Wren
House Wren
Western Bluebird
Wrentit
California Thrasher
European Starling
Orange-crowned Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
Wilson’s Warbler
Western Tanager
Spotted Towhee
California Towhee
Song Sparrow
Sparrow sp.
Red-winged Blackbird
Oriole sp.
House Finch
Lesser Goldfinch
American Goldfinch
And, not to be ignored…Nutmeg Mannikin!
Mickey Nail, Recorder for the day!
