Hi Everyone,

Yesterday morning, Saturday February 19, nineteen birders walked around San Joaquin Wildlife Sanctuary in Irvine, where we found 74 bird species.
The weather was perfect and everybody had a great time. Lots of water fowl and a good mix of riparian and chaparral birds.

To see some nice bird photos of of some of the birds we found, checkout Steve Ellis’s eBird report:  https://ebird.org/checklist/S103117633

Here’s our bird species list:

Canada Goose
Blue-winged Teal
Cinnamon Teal
Northern Shoveler
Gadwall
Mallard
Green-winged Teal
Redhead
Bufflehead
Ruddy Duck
Hooded Merganser
Pied-billed Grebe
Eared Grebe
Western Grebe
Clark’s Grebe
Mourning Dove
Anna’s Hummingbird
Allen’s Hummingbird
Sora
Common Gallinule
American Coot
Black-necked Stilt
Killdeer
Least Sandpiper
Western Sandpiper
Long-billed Dowitcher
Greater Yellowlegs
Ring-billed Gull
Western Gull
Double-crested Cormorant
American White Pelican
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Snowy Egret
Black-crowned Night-Heron
White-faced Ibis
Turkey Vulture
Osprey
White-tailed Kite
Northern Harrier
Cooper’s Hawk
Red-shouldered Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
Belted Kingfisher
Downy Woodpecker
Nuttall’s Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Black Phoebe
American Crow
Tree Swallow
Barn Swallow
Bushtit
Wrentit
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
California Gnatcatcher
Marsh Wren
Bewick’s Wren
California Thrasher
Northern Mockingbird
Hermit Thrush
House Sparrow
House Finch
Lesser Goldfinch
White-crowned Sparrow
Savannah Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Lincoln’s Sparrow
California Towhee
Spotted Towhee
Red-winged Blackbird
Orange-crowned Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
Yellow-rumped Warbler

JIM BECKMAN trip leader