We had a good group (30-40 people) today and right many target birds. Weather was a bit damp starting off at 7am, but it was a mostly comfortable day aside from everyone having wet feet!
Starting at at Huntington Central Park, we found the PACIFIC WREN on the north side of the "island" area . It called multiple times from a few different spots and only gave a very brief look at one point. We were able to track down one GOLDEN-CROWNED KINGLET close to the Gothard lot , below the bathrooms. It was very active in the eucalyptus. No luck on the Black-and-white Warbler or the Northern Waterthrush.
We then moved on to the Brightwater Trail above Bolsa Chica where we found the Rock Wren, 2 Loggerhead Shrikes and the continuing EASTERN PHOEBE that was seen at the trail entrance at Fordham and Oceanridge . We did not see the Burrowing Owl.
We went to Mile Square Regional Park from there and found the Ash-throated Flycatcher in it's usual location behind ballfield 6 (I think) but were unable to locate the Pine Warbler. Most of us saw a flock of Canada Geese flying in that had the one Albino/Lecustic Canada and there was one, I'm assuming, Snow Goose with that flock. We tried to get looks at that flock of birds, but they were right in the middle of the golf course behind a small hill. We then walked over to the west end of the nature center to look for the Red-naped Sapsucker and Orchard Oriole, but only came up with two Bullock's Orioles despite the Orchard Oriole being seen earlier in the morning.
Centennial Park was our next stop to look for the RUSTY BLACKBIRD that Jim Pike had found the previous day. The bird was easily found on this concrete peninsula with a large flock of Brewer's Blackbirds and a few Brown-headed Cowbirds. There was also a CACKLING GOOSE and an adult male EURASIAN WIGEON around the lake there.
Our last stop was at Mason Regional Park where we were able to find the PALM WARBLER at the west end and some saw/heard the SUMMER TANAGER and BLACK-AND-WHITE WARBLER, but not everyone got looks at those. No sign of the Baltimore Oriole for our group.
Thanks to everyone for coming out. Hope you had a good time.
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A list of birds seen today:
Snow Goose (Mile Square) Cackling Goose (Centennial Park) Canada Goose Egyptian Goose Gadwall
Eurasian Wigeon (Centennial Park) American Wigeon Mallard Northern Shoveler
Ruddy Duck Double-crested Cormorant Great Blue Heron Great Egret Snowy Egret Green Heron White-faced Ibis Turkey Vulture Northern Harrier Cooper's Hawk Red-shouldered Hawk Red-tailed Hawk American Coot Whimbrel Spotted Sandpiper Ring-billed Gull Western Gull California Gull Rock Pigeon Mourning Dove Anna's Hummingbird Allen's Hummingbird Belted Kingfisher Nuttall's Woodpecker Downy Woodpecker Northern Flicker American Kestrel Black Phoebe Eastern Phoebe (Brightwater - Bolsa) Say's Phoebe Vermilion Flycatcher Ash-throated Flycatcher Cassin's Kingbird Loggerhead Shrike Hutton's Vireo American Crow Common Raven Bushtit Rock Wren House Wren Pacific Wren (Huntington Central Park) Bewick's Wren Golden-crowned Kinglet (Huntington Central Park) Ruby-crowned Kinglet Western Bluebird Hermit Thrush European Starling Cedar Waxwing Orange-crowned Warbler Common Yellowthroat Palm Warbler (Mason Regional Park) Yellow-rumped Warbler Black-throated Gray Warbler Townsend's Warbler White-crowned Sparrow Song Sparrow California Towhee Spotted Towhee Summer Tanager (Mason Regional Park) Red-winged Blackbird Western Meadowlark Rusty Blackbird (Centennial Park) Brewer's Blackbird Brown-headed Cowbird Bullock's Oriole House Finch Lesser Goldfinch American Goldfinch Scaly-breasted Munia
Jeff Bray Irvine, CA