Shelter Island for Red-necked Grebe
Balboa Park for Greater Pewee
Tijuana Slough NWR for Nelson's Sharp-tailed Sparrow
San Diego NWR for American Flamingo(presumed escapee from nearby hotel at Coronado)
San Diego Bay for Nazca Booby
Fiesta Island for Short-eared Owl
Famosa Slough
Phew. Total about 44 species. Focused on target species so didn't aim to spot as many bird species as possible; for example skipped San Diego river mudflat, etc.. Tri-colored Heron is reported to be still there.
SD county; 186 species
Orange County; 195
LA county; 375
Total USA; 446
Started with a dud, failing to spot those first three species(others also reported fail on the Grebe, not good..), but did spot Flamingo, Booby, Owl(all my firsts!)
That Owl put quite a show in front of us birders!
Finally at Famosa spotted its first Townsend's Warbler this year(I'm the first to spot it, at least among who reported on ebird!).
Spotted Parrots(Red-crowned?) flying by while eating at Arby's around 5:43pm.
ITR RSF starts at 9:30, so I'll try for Grebe and Pewee one more time, and possibly could also try to find Painted Redstart at Crown Point(Mission Bay).
And really hoping to spot Grace's Warbler near the venue(Crest Canyon OSP).
Not staying long this time, maybe two, at most 4 days.
Heerman's Gull and Western Gull at Shelter Island
Osprey at Shelter Island
Savannah Sparrow at Tijuana Slough NWR
American Flamingo
Nazca Booby; yeah I know it's a fail pic lol, two on a buoy. Intrepid birders rent boats to get closer pics!
Savannah Sparrow at Fiesta Island
Owl show! 2 at least, possibly 3
Oooh~
Townsend's Warbler at Famosa
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