You will find below a list of birds seen on Sunday's (09/29/13) walk.  The birds marked with an X were heard only.

 

Sepulveda Basin Wildlife Reserve
Observation date:  Sep 29, 2013
Number of species:  54 species (+1 other taxa)
Number of participants: 51

Wood Duck  1 - female type
Mallard  36
Mallard (Domestic type)  3
Redhead  1
Pied-billed Grebe  5
Double-crested Cormorant  45
Great Blue Heron  2
Great Egret  2
Snowy Egret  3
Green Heron  2
Black-crowned Night-Heron  5 - 1 juvenile, 4 adults
Turkey Vulture  2
Osprey  1
Cooper's Hawk  2 - 1 juvenile (pictured below), 1 adult
American Coot  4
Western Gull  3
Rock Pigeon  5
Mourning Dove  8
Vaux's Swift  5
Anna's Hummingbird  20
Allen's Hummingbird  15
Belted Kingfisher  2 - 1 male, 1 female
Nuttall's Woodpecker  1 - X
American Kestrel  2 - 1 male, 1 female
Yellow-chevroned Parakeet  24
Olive-sided Flycatcher  1 - uncommon bird for the basin
Black Phoebe  8
Say's Phoebe  2
Ash-throated Flycatcher  3 - unusual for this time of year in the basin
Cassin's Kingbird  1
American Crow  3
Bushtit  100
White-breasted Nuthatch  3 Coopers Hawk
Bewick's Wren  1 - X
Ruby-crowned Kinglet  1
Western Bluebird  5
Northern Mockingbird  2
European Starling  12
Cedar Waxwing  20 - fly-over
Orange-crowned Warbler  5
Common Yellowthroat  1
Yellow Warbler  2
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Audubon's)  3
Hermit Warbler  1
Wilson's Warbler  4
California Towhee  2
Brewer's Sparrow  1
Lark Sparrow  11
Song Sparrow  4
White-crowned Sparrow  2
Red-winged Blackbird  2
Brewer's Blackbird  8
Brown-headed Cowbird  3
House Finch  25
Lesser Goldfinch  6
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