I spent Sunday morning 23 April 2023 (6:00 AM to 12:30 PM) looking for birds along part of the south shore of the Salton Sea and at a few select locations in the Imperial Valley. I started the day at Fig Lagoon and the Rio Bend Golfcourse then drove northward through Calipatria to the west end of Young Road. From the west end of Young Road I birded along the seawall to Obsidian Butte, then drove eastward to the Salton Sea National Wildlife Refuge HQ. At the Salton Sea National Wildlife Refuge HQ I only looked around the entrance parking area. I then returned to the west end of Young Road by way of the seawall. From the west end of Young Road I drove southeastward into Brawley. In Brawley I only looked briefly at Riverview Cemetery, the hummingbird feeders on Willard Avenue and at Cattle Call Park. From Brawley I drove south to the Even Hewes Highway by way of Dogwood Road, stopping at the flooded area adjacent to Neckel Road on the way. I then drove west to San Diego, stopping to look at the Rio Bend Golf Course, Sunbeam Lake and Fig Lagoon on the way. Mostly clear with no wind, and with temperatures ranging from 60 to 95 degrees. Waterfowl numbers continue to decline, far fewer shorebirds than present on 19 April, and migrant passerines appeared to be nonexistent. Species seen and/or heard Brant (1 one on Fig Lagoon), Blue-winged Teal (4 four together at the north end of Lack Road), Cinnamon Teal (30), Northern Shoveler (150), Gadwall (2), American Wigeon (15 all at the flooded area adjacent to Neckel Road), Mallard (10), Northern Pintail (1), White-winged Scoter (1 one near the west end of Young Road was the same worn and faded female/immature male seen here on 12 April), Ruddy Duck (50), Gambels Quail (5), Pied-billed Grebe (2), Eared Grebe (75), Clarks Grebe (2), Rock Pigeon (50), Eurasian Collared-Dove (75), Common Ground-Dove (15), White-winged Dove (15), Mourning Dove (25), Greater Roadrunner (3), Lesser Nighthawk (1), Black-chinned Hummingbird (1), Annas Hummingbird (2), Ridgeways Rail (1), Common Gallinule (1), American Coot (150), Black-necked Stilt (75), American Avocet (10), Black-bellied Plover (75), Killdeer (6), Semipalmated Plover (2), Snowy Plover (20), Whimbrel (30), Long-billed Curlew (5), Red Knot (20 twenty in alternate-plumage along the shore at the north end of Lack Road), Stilt Sandpiper (15 fifteen in alternate-plumage near the west end of Young Road), Least Sandpiper (30), Western Sandpiper (150), Least/Western Sandpiper (100 most probably Western Sandpipers), Long-billed Dowitcher (50), Spotted Sandpiper (2), Willet (5), Greater Yellowlegs (1), Ring-billed Gull (150), California Gull (10), Gull-billed Tern (60 most near the west end of Young Road), Caspian Tern (2), Forsters Tern (2), Black Skimmer (6 six together near the west end of Young Road), Double-crested Cormorant (15), Neotropic Cormorant (15), White Great Blue Heron (5), Great Egret (25), Snowy Egret (5), Cattle Egret (750), Green Heron (1), White-faced Ibis (500), Turkey Vulture (1), Northern Harrier (1), Burrowing Owl (10), Gila Woodpecker (5), Ladder-backed Woodpecker (1), American Kestrel (6), Western Kingbird (15), Black Phoebe (5), Says Phoebe (1 one at the Salton Sea National Wildlife Refuge HQ), Vermilion Flycatcher (3 a pair feeding a recently fledged young at the Rio Bend Golfcourse), Common Raven (2), Verdin (6), Northern Rough-winged Swallow (10), Barn Swallow (50), Cliff Swallow (250), Marsh Wren (6), Northern Mockingbird (5), European Starling (75), House Sparrow (20), House Finch (20), Song Sparrow (5), Aberts Towhee (6), Yellow-headed Blackbird (2 - two adult males at the flooded area adjacent to Neckel Road), Western Meadowlark (15), Red-winged Blackbird (250), Bronzed Cowbird (2 one adult male at the Rio Bend Golfcourse and one adult male at Sunbeam Lake), Brown-headed Cowbird (15), Brewers Blackbird (20), Great-tailed Grackle (100), Common Yellowthroat (1) and Yellow-rumped Warbler (2) 87 species. Guy McCaskie