Good day again
This morning I again joined Margaret Liubavicius for a nice day of birding on Hanlans and Gibralter Points and below are some of the birds we were able to find.
Black-crowned night-Heron, Sharp-shinned and Cooper's Hawks, 2 Merlins ( one posing less than 30 feet in front of us on a fence ), Sanderlings, Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers, 23 Northern Flickers, Eastern Wood-Pewee, 19 Eastern Phoebes, Migrating Horned Larks, 4500+ Blue Jays migrating west, some very high above us, 7 Red-breasted Nuthatches, Brown Creepers, Winter Wrens, both Kinglets, Gray-cheeked and Hermit Thrushes, American Pipits, migrating Cedar Waxwings, 8 Warbler species including 2 Orange-crowned, Black-throated blue, Black-throated green, 50+ Yellow-rumped, and 78 Palm Warblers, a nice find of 5 Clay-colored Sparrows together, as well as Field, Chipping and Swamp Sparrows and 125+ migrating American Goldfinch. Several other species of birds we observed migrating but so far in small numbers but with the cooler weather in the north thing should pick up next week.
