Salt Works Field Trip Results

Hi Friends,
Yesterday, Saturday, November 30th, nineteen birders checked out the Salt Works in Chula Vista, with perfect weather, and we found 63 bird species. Many thanks go out to our friend and FWS Ranger, Debbie Good, for arranging our visit to this restricted birding hot spot.

Here’s our list:

Brant
Gadwall
American Wigeon
Mallard
Blue-winged Teal
Northern Shoveler
Northern Pintail
Lesser Scaup
Surf Scoter
Bufflehead
Common Goldeneye
Ruddy Duck
Pied-billed Grebe
Horned Grebe
Eared Grebe
Western Grebe
Clark’s Grebe
American White Pelican
Brown Pelican
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Snowy Egret
Turkey Vulture
Osprey
Northern Harrier
Red-tailed Hawk
American Kestrel
Merlin
Peregrine Falcon
American Coot
Black-bellied Plover
Killdeer
Black-necked Stilt
American Avocet
Greater Yellowlegs
Willet
Spotted Sandpiper
Whimbrel
Long-billed Curlew
Marbled Godwit
Ruddy Turnstone
Black Turnstone
Western Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
Dunlin
Dowitcher sp.
Ring-billed Gull
California Gull
Herring Gull
Western Gull
Royal Tern
Forster’s Tern
Mourning Dove
White-throated Swift
Black Phoebe
Say’s Phoebe
Cassin’s Kingbird
American Crow
American Pipit
Savannah Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow
House Finch

JIM BECKMAN

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