San Elijo Lagoon Bird Walk Report

22 birder’s enjoyed a clear, crisp and beautiful morning chasing our fine-feathered friends.  Highlights included a pair of Hooded mergansers, a very accomadating Pergegrine falcon (that let the whole group get long and close looks of), and a Summer tanager.  Complete list of 72 species follows;

Gadwall
American widgeon
Mallard
Cinnamon teal
Northern pintail
Green-winged teal
Bufflehead
Hooded mergnaser
Pied-billed grebe
Brown pelican
Double-crested cormorant
Great blue heron
Great egret
Snowy egret
Black-crowned night heron
Osprey
White-tailed kite
Northern harrier
Red-tailed hawk
Accipiter spp(looked like a sharpie)
American kestrel
Peregrine falcon
Clapper rail
American coot
Black-bellied plover
American avocet
Greater yellowlegs
Willet
Whimbrel
Marbled godwit
Ruddy turnstone
Black turnstone
Sanderling
Western sandpiper
Least sandpiper
Dunlin
Short-billed dowitcher
California gull
Eurasion collared-dove
Mourning dove
Anna’s hummingbird
Allen’s hummingbird
Belted kingfisher
Nuttall’s woodpecker
Northern flicker
Black phoebe
Says’ phoebe
Cassin’s kingbird
Western scrub-jay
American crow
Common raven
Swallow spp
Bushtit
Bewick’s wren
Marsh wren
Ruby-crowned kinglet
California gnatcatcher
Wrentit
Northern mockingbird
California thrasher
European starling
Orange-crowned warbler
Yellow-rumped warbler
Common yellowthroat
Summer tanager
Spotted towhee
California towhee
Savannah sparrow
Song sparrow
White-crowned sparrow
House finch
Lesser goldfinch

Thanks to all that helped spot the birds, especially Dave!
Michael
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