Sunday, December 17, 2006

Dear Allen and Judy,
As we won't be here on December 27, we did a two hour bird count along the lake in la Cristina today, Sunday Dec. 17. We positively identified 321 birds and 42 species. Here is our list:
27 Common Coot
18 Neotropic Cormorant
24 Common Ground Dove
5 Inca Dove
5 White-winged Dove
10 Great Egret
9 Snowy Egret
6 House Finch
3 Social Flycatcher
4 Vermillion Flycatcher
14 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
51 Great-tailed Grackle
1 Blue Grosbeak
2 Laughing Gull
15 Ring-billed Gull
1 Harris's Hawk
12 Black-crowned Night Heron
1 Great Blue Heron
3 Green Heron
1 Tri-colored Heron
3 Violet-crowned Hummingbird
11 Killdeer
1 Belted Kingfisher
7 Great Kiskadee
1 Northern Mockingbird
16 White Pelican
1 American Redstart
1 Spotted Sandpiper
3 White-collared Seedeater
1 Loggerhead Shrike
31 House Sparrow
2 Lark Sparrow
8 Blue-winged Teal
2 Cinnamon Teal
2 Caspian Tern
3 Forster's tern
4 Curve-billed Thrasher
1 Canyon Towhee
8 Yellow-rumped Warbler
1 Golden-fronted Woodpecker
1 Bewick's Wren
1 Lesser Yellowlegs
Have a great Christmas and a very successful bird count!
Don & Myrtle Bell