Field Trip Report 9/29/18:

It started out as a cool, foggy, comfortable morning at beautiful Lake Hodges, with sun breaking through around 10:30. It was a rewarding day of birding, with 30 enthusiastic birders who identified 53 species of birds! A very nice morning, indeed! It’s always interesting to compare our results with previous field trips, so as a side note, I will mention that on the Lake Hodges field trip last year, 31 birders found 52 species of birds.

Hal Benham, PAS Trip Leader

Mallard
California Quail
Western Grebe
Clark’s Grebe
Double-crested Cormorant
Great blue heron
Great egret
Snowy egret
Black-crowned night heron
Turkey vulture
Osprey
Northern Harrier
Cooper’s Hawk
Red-shouldered hawk
Red-tailed hawk
American kestrel
American coot
Spotted sandpiper
Forster’s Tern
Mourning dove
Anna’s hummingbird
Belted kingfisher
Acorn woodpecker
Nuttal’s woodpecker
Pacific Slope Flycatcher
Black phoebe
Say’s phoebe
Cassin’s kingbird
Loggerhead shrike
California scrub jay
American crow
Common raven
Bushtit
White-breasted nuthatch
Bewick’s wren
California Gnatcatcher
Blue-gray gnatcatcher
Wrentit
Northern mockingbird
California thrasher
European starling
Yellow-rumped warbler
Common Yellowthroat
Wilson’s warbler
Warbler sp (terrible light)
Spotted towhee
California towhee
Savannah sparrow
Song sparrow
White-crowned sparrow
Red-winged blackbird
Great-tailed grackle
House finch
Lesser Goldfinch