Hi Friends,

Yesterday, Saturday March 4, fourteen birders looked for birds at Santee Lakes. The weather was perfect. We found 51 bird species.

Here’s our bird list:

Canada Goose
Wood Duck
American Wigeon
Mallard
Cinnamon Teal
Northern Shoveler
Ring-necked Duck
Lesser Scaup
Ruddy Duck
Pied-billed Grebe
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Blue-Heron
Great Egret
Snowy Egret
Green Heron
Red-shouldered Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
Common Gallinule
American Coot
Western Gull
Eurasian Collared-Dove
Mourning Dove
Anna’s Hummingbird
Belted Kingfisher
Acorn Woodpecker
Nuttall’s Woodpecker
Black Phoebe
Say’s Phoebe
Cassin’s Kingbird
California Scrub-Jay
American Crow
Common Raven
Tree Swallow
Bushtit
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Northern Mockingbird
European Starling
Cedar Waxwing
Orange-crowned Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Song Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow
Red-winged Blackbird
Tricolored Blackbird
Brewer’s Blackbird
Great-tailed Grackle
House Finch
Lesser Goldfinch
House Sparrow
Scaly-breasted Munia

JIM BECKMAN, trip leader