20 birders enjoyed a pleasant, warm hike from Stonewall Mine to Cuyamaca Lake and back. Highlight was a pair of bald eagles by their nest. Here is the list of 50 birds we saw and heard:

Canada Goose
Mallard
Ruddy Duck
Wild Turkey
Turkey Vulture
Pied-billed Grebe
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Turkey Vulture
Bald Eagle
Red-shouldered Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
American Kestrel
American Coot
Mourning Dove
Anna’s Hummingbird
Acorn Woodpecker
Nuttall’s Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Western Wood-Pewee
Pac Slope Flycatcher
Black Phoebe
Cassin’s Kingbird
California Scrub-Jay
American Crow
Common Raven
Violet-green Swallow
Mountain Chickadee
Oak Titmouse
Bushtit
Red-breasted Nuthatch
White-breasted Nuthatch
Pygmy Nuthatch
House Wren
Western Bluebird
European Starling
Phainopepla
Wilson’s Warbler
Spotted Towhee
Chipping Sparrow
Lark Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
Red-winged Blackbird
Brewer’s Blackbird
Great-tailed Grackle
Purple Finch
House Finch
Lesser Goldfinch
Lawrence’s Goldfinch

Trip Leader: Hal Benham