We had another great outing with 27 birders seeing 36 species. We were in three different groups and each group saw some birds the other groups didn’t see even though we all followed the same path. There’s always a bit of timing and luck involved with any birding adventure.
Here’s the list of birds we saw:
- Mute Swan
- Mottled Duck
- Rock Pigeon
- Eurasian Collared-Dove
- Mourning Dove
- Common Ground Dove
- Ruddy Turnstone
- Sanderling
- Willet
- Laughing Gull
- Ring-billed Gull
- Herring Gull
- Forster’s Tern
- Royal Tern
- Northern Gannet
- Double-crested Cormorant
- Brown Pelican
- Great Blue Heron
- Little Blue Heron
- Great Egret
- White Ibis
- Black Vulture
- Turkey Vulture
- Osprey
- Bald Eagle
- Red-bellied Woodpecker
- Peregrine Falcon
- Blue Jay
- Fish Crow
- European Starling
- Gray Catbird
- Northern Mockingbird
- Common Grackle
- Boat-tailed Grackle
- Palm Warbler
- Northern Cardinal