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Posted by Chris & Lili on 21:56:04 04/12/09
A week of sporadic birding in and around LA County, California, this past week turned up over 80 species with 49 lifers. A visit to Santa Cruz Island sadly turned up no definitive sighting of Island scrub jay. Another reason to go back! Here are the lifers (in a probably completely irrational order):
Western grebe
Common loon
Common murre
Xantu's murrelet
Cassin's auklet
Rhinoceros auklet
Tufted puffin
Surf scoter
Western scrub jay
Nuttal's woodpecker
Acorn woodpecker
Great-tailed grackle
Western gull
Heerman's gull
Elegant tern
Sooty shearwater
Brandt's cormorant
Whimbrel
California quail
Horned lark (abundant on Santa Cruz island)
Western meadowlark
White-crowned sparrow
Song sparrow (saw mating)
Chipping sparrow
Rufous-crowned sparrow
Hooded oriole
Lesser goldfinch
House finch
Black-headed grossbeak
California towhee
Bushtit
Oak titmouse
Western tanager
California thrasher
Townsend's warbler
Connecticut warbler
Yellow warbler
Black phoebe
Pacific slope flycatcher
Bewick's wren
Canyon wren
Wrentit
Anna's hummingbird
Calliope hummingbird
Allen's hummingbird
Black-chinned hummingbird
Costa's hummingbird
Western kingbird
White-throated swift
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