Best bird(s) of the day:
- Bushtits
- Brown Creeper
- Common Moorhen
- Golden-crowned Kinglet
- Hermit Thrush
- Le Conte’s Sparrow
- Say’s Phoebe
- Townsend’s Solitaire
- Western Bluebirds
- Western Sandpipers
Complete List:
- Canada Goose, 4
- Wood Duck, 3
- Gadwall, 162
- American Wigeon, 22
- Mallard, 135
- Northern Shoveler, 54
- Northern Pintail, 4
- Green-winged Teal, 33
- Canvassback, 12
- Ring-necked Duck, 16
- Lesser Scaup, 7
- Bufflehead, 5
- Wild Turkey, 26
- Northern Bobwhite, 16
- Pied-billed Grebe, 10
- Horned Grebe, 3
- Eared Grebe, 21
- American White Pelican, 97
- Double-crested Cormorants, 67
- Great Blue Heron, 30
- Great Egret, 1
- Snowy Egret, 1 (cw)
- Black-crowned Night-Heron, 2
- Black Vulture, 1
- Northern Harrier, 5
- Sharp-shinned Hawk, 1 (cw)
- Cooper’s Hawk, 1
- Red-shouldered Hawk, 1
- Red-tailed Hawk, 16
- American Kestrel, 36
- Common Moorhen, 1 (cw)
- American Coot, 223
- Killdeer, 22
- Spotted Sandpiper, 4
- Western Sandpiper, 3
- Least Sandpiper, 19
- Bonaparte’s Gull, 18
- Ring-billed Gull, 322
- Forster’s Tern, 8
- Rock Pigeon, 563
- Eurasian Collared-Dove, 179
- White-winged Dove, 153
- Mourning Dove, 249
- Inca Dove, 23
- Greater Roadrunner, 3
- Eastern Screech Owl, 1
- Great-horned Owl, 2
- Belted Kingfisher, 8
- Golden-fronted Woodpecker, 11
- Ladder-backed Woodpecker, 20
- Downy Woodpecker, 9
- Northern Flicker, 6
- Eastern Phoebe, 1
- Say’s Phoebe, 1
- Great Kiskadee, 1 (heard on count week just the other side of our official circle. It will not be recorded on our CBC but included in this list for your information)
- Loggerhead Shrike, 21
- Blue Jay, 87
- Western Scrub Jay, 3
- American Crow, 6
- Horned Lark, 11
- Carolina Chickadee, 13
- Black-crested Titmouse, 18
- Bushtits, 10
- Brown Creeper, 2
- Cactus Wren, 2
- Carolina Wren, 3
- Bewick’s Wren, 14
- Marsh Wren, 3
- Golden-crowned Kinglet, 1
- Ruby-crowned Kinglet, 9
- Eastern Bluebird, 71
- Western Bluebird, 68
- Townsend’s Solitaire, 1
- Hermit Thrush, 1
- American Robin, 145
- Northern Mockingbird, 166
- Curve-billed Thrasher, 7
- European Starling, 761
- Cedar Waxwing, 118
- Orange-crowned Warbler, 4
- Yellow-rumped Warbler, 13
- Spotted Towhee, 3
- Hybrid Eastern/Spotted Towhee, 1 (cw). This female towhee looked exactly like an Eastern on one side (no spots on the wings), but on her other side she had the characteristic spots of a Spotted. Go figure
- Canyon Towhee, 6
- Chipping Sparrow, 45
- Field Sparrow, 17
- Vesper Sparrow, 34
- Savannah Sparrow, 55
- Le Conte’s Sparrow, 1
- Song Sparrow, 54
- Lincoln’s Sparrow, 8
- White-throated Sparrow, 2
- White-crowned Sparrow, 229
- Dark-eyed Junco, 241
- Northern Cardinal, 64
- Pyrrhuloxia, 29
- Red-winged Blackbird, 693
- Meadowlark Species, 568
- Common Grackle, 55
- Great-tailed Grackle, 1,673
- Brown-headed Cowbird, 1,912
- House Finch, 350
- Pine Siskin, 18
- American Goldfinch, 38
- House Sparrow, 838
Sightings by: Lorie Black, Joyce Curtis, Kathy & Tom Edwards, June Estes, Katherine Hampton, Joan Howard, Bill Hughes, Earlene Hutto, Bera Johnson, Isabel & Josephine & Tom Lee, Charla & Vance McCracken, Steve Owens, Amy & Jay & Laura Packer, Edna Ross, Kim Walton, Charline Wheeler, Linda White, W.K. & Carolyn Wiggins