California Trip - Dec/Jan 0708 Trip List

[Dave]

Canada Goose
Trumpeter Swan
Gadwall
American Wigeon
Mallard
Blue-winged Teal
Northern Shoveler
Northern Pintail
Green-winged Teal
Redhead
Ring-necked Duck
Greater Scaup
Lesser Scaup
Bufflehead
Common Goldeneye
Hooded Merganser
Common Merganser
Red-breasted Merganser
Ruddy Duck
California Quail
Gambel's Quail
Common Loon
Pied-billed Grebe
Horned Grebe
Eared Grebe
Western Grebe
American White Pelican
Brown Pelican
Brandt's Cormorant
Double-crested Cormorant
Pelagic Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Snowy Egret
Little Blue Heron
Tri-coloured Heron
Green Heron
Black-crowned Night-Heron
Turkey Vulture
Osprey
White-tailed Kite
Bald Eagle
Northern Harrier
Sharp-shinned Hawk
Cooper's Hawk
Red-shouldered Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
Ferruginous Hawk
American Kestrel
Peregrine Falcon
Prairie Falcon
American Coot
Black-bellied Plover
Semipalmated Plover
Killdeer
Black-necked Stilt
American Avocet
Spotted Sandpiper
Wandering Tattler
Greater Yellowlegs
Willet
Lesser Yellowlegs
Whimbrel
Long-billed Curlew
Marbled Godwit
Ruddy Turnstone
Sanderling
Western Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
Dunlin
Short-billed Dowitcher
Long-billed Dowitcher
Bonaparte's Gull
Heermann's Gull
Mew Gull
Ring-billed Gull
Western Gull
Glaucous-winged Gull
Royal Tern
Black Skimmer
Rock Pigeon
White-winged Dove
Mourning Dove
Greater Roadrunner
White-throated Swift
Anna's Hummingbird
Costa's Hummingbird
Acorn Woodpecker
Ladder-backed Woodpecker
Nuttall's Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Hairy Woodpecker
Williamson’s Sapsucker
Northern Flicker
Black Phoebe
Say's Phoebe
Cassin's Kingbird
Hutton's Vireo
Steller's Jay
Western Scrub-Jay
American Crow
Northwest Crow
Common Raven
Mountain Chickadee
Oak Titmouse
Verdin
Bushtit
White-breasted Nuthatch
Pygmy Nuthatch
Cactus Wren
Rock Wren
Canyon Wren
Bewick's Wren
House Wren
Marsh Wren
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
California Gnatcatcher
Western Bluebird
Hermit Thrush
Wrentit
Northern Mockingbird
California Thrasher
European Starling
Phainopepla
Orange-crowned Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Townsend's Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
Spotted Towhee
California Towhee
Chipping Sparrow
Black-throated Sparrow
Savannah Sparrow
Fox Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Lincoln's Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow
Golden-crowned Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
Scott’s Oriole
Red-winged Blackbird
Tricoloured Blackbird
Brewer's Blackbird
Brown-headed Cowbird
House Finch
Pine Siskin
Lesser Goldfinch
House Sparrow

[Gord]

Dave, thanks for a good report and good pictures as always! Congrats on the lifers. I see well over 30 lifers for me up there!!!

One day we're going on a trip with our families! Ill let you choose the campsites.

[b1schmor]

Wow Dave, sounds like a great trip. Thanks for sharing and great pictures to accompany your report. I especially like the one of the California Thrasher.

Brent

[stuh]

Thanks Dave for the inspiring report and great photos. Makes me want to call in sick and head to California. Road trip anyone? j/k

[Dave]

I have tried something new, and uploaded to Youtube a short video of a singing California Thrasher @ Point Loma, California on December 29, 2007.

Hope it works!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4XfnrRO1Ec

Dave