Hi Birders,

On Saturday January 28, twenty-three birders walked around Kit Carson Park and found 45 bird species.

The weather was perfect. Best birds were the beautiful male and female Hooded Mergansers. Also, a real close Belted Kingfisher.

Here’s our species list:

Gadwall
American Wigeon
Mallard
Ring-necked Duck
Bufflehead
Hooded Merganser
Ruddy Duck
Pied-billed Grebe
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Egret
Snowy Egret
Cooper’s Hawk
Red-shouldered Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
American Coot
Spotted Sandpiper
Ring-billed Gull
Eurasian Collared-Dove
Mourning Dove
Anna’s Hummingbird
Belted Kingfisher
Acorn Woodpecker
Nuttall’s Woodpecker
Black Phoebe
Say’s Phoebe
California Scrub-Jay
American Crow
Bushtit
White-breasted Nuthatch
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Wrentit
Western Bluebird
European Starling
Common Yellowthroat
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Townsend’s Warbler
California Towhee
Song Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow
Brewer’s Blackbird
Great-tailed Grackle
Brown-headed Cowbird
House Finch
Lesser Goldfinch
Scaly-breasted Munia

JIM BECKMAN trip leader