On a beautiful Saturday morning June 4, fifteen birders met up in 2 separate areas near Julian. We birded Wm. Heise County Park and then met up for a picnic lunch and birded the nearby Santa Ysabel Mission. We found 48 different bird species total at both locations.
Lots of Wild Turkeys, Acorn Woodpeckers, Bushtits, Lesser Goldfinches, & Cliff Swallows. The most surprising bird species was the flyover of the adult Bald Eagle spotted at the Mission. The Bald Eagle was seen later perched in a very distant tree.
Checkout the two eBird reports from Steve Ellis to see some nice photos of the birds we found.
California Quail Wild Turkey Great Blue Heron (flyover) Turkey Vulture Bald Eagle Red-tailed Hawk Band-tailed Pigeon Eurasian Collard-Dove Mourning Dove Anna’s Hummingbird Acorn Woodpecker Nuttall’s Woodpecker Northern Flicker Western Wood-Pewee Black Phoebe Say’s Phoebe Ash-throated Flycatcher Cassin’s Kingbird Western Kingbird Steller’s Jay California Scrub-Jay American Crow Common Raven Violet-green Swallow Cliff Swallow Mountain Chickadee Oak Titmouse Bushtit White-breasted Nuthatch House Wren Bewick’s Wren Wrentit Western Bluebird American Robin California Thrasher Northern Mockingbird Phainopepla Spotted Towhee California Towhee Song Sparrow Dark-eyed Junco Black-headed Grosbeak Brown-headed Cowbird Hooded Oriole Bullock’s Oriole House Finch Lesser Goldfinch House Finch
