A big bunch of people, thirty-seven to be exact, turned out for the third annual Fallbrook Experience. It was a beautiful fresh, after the rains, sunny day. Lots of good times with looking at birds, visiting, chatting and, it seemed at times, loafing. The band-tailed pigeons put in t heir appearance for us, but still no wood ducks. Special visitors were the Hermit Thrush and the Townsend Warbler.

The length of the combined trips was more that our usual Saturday romps and I was concerned that it might be too much. This gang, however, were real troopers and although everyone had a couple of opportunities to take shortcuts at Los Jilgueros, we all took in everything that this wonderful park has to offer.

Here are our results:

26 Live Oak Park Appearances:

8 Band-tailed Pigeon
2 Anna’s Hummingbird
2 Red-shouldered Hawk
1 Red-tailed Hawk
29 Acorn Woodpecker
2 Nuttall’s Woodpecker
2 Black Phoebe
1 Cassin’s Kingbird
1 Hutton’s Vireo
1 California Scrub-Jay
26 American Crow
8 Oak Titmouse
100 Bushtit
6 White-breasted Nuthatch
6 Ruby-crowned Kinglet
20 Western Bluebird
1 Hermit Thrush
1 European Starling
2 House Finch
6 Purple Finch
2 Dark-eyed Junco
5 White-crowned Sparrow
1 California Towhee
1 Orange-crowned Warbler
10 Yellow-rumped Warbler
1 Townsend’s Warbler

17 Los Jilgueros Appearances:

4 Northern Shoveler
2 Gadwall
6 American Wigeon
12 Mallard
6 Anna’s Hummingbird
2 Allen’s Hummingbird
6 American Coot
1 Great Egret
3 Turkey Vulture
2 Red-shouldered Hawk
3 Red-tailed Hawk
2 Acorn Woodpecker
1 Nuttall’s Woodpecker
1 American Kestrel
2 Black Phoebe
2 Say’s Phoebe
2 Cassin’s Kingbird

Leader: Doug Walkley