date and time:  05 July 2026, from 04:50 to 09:00

weather:  partly cloudy, pre-dawn SW winds 2-5 mph increasing to 5-10 mph after sunrise, 57-63 degrees F.

route:  standard Trochet (minimally modified Langham)

solo survey

birds:

mallard-  1 (one in a female-like plumage flying overhead before sunrise)

wild turkey-  6 (still roosting in trees at 7AM near Vireo Corner)

pied-billed grebe-  1

mourning dove-  4

Anna’s hummingbird-  4

great egret-  2

great blue heron-  2

turkey vulture-  8 (the brisk wind had them up earlier than usual)

white-tailed kite-  3

northern harrier-  2

red-shouldered hawk-  3

Swainson’s hawk-  1

red-tailed hawk-  2

American barn owl-  1

great horned owl-  1

downy woodpecker-  3

Nuttall’s woodpecker-  7

ash-throated flycatcher-  14

western kingbird-  11

black phoebe-  12

California scrub-jay-  7

American crow-  15

oak titmouse-  7

tree swallow-  40

cliff swallow-  9

swallow sp.-  15

bushtit-  35

wrentit-  4

white-breasted nuthatch-  10

Bewick’s wren-  1

northern house wren-  10

marsh wren-  2

northern mockingbird-  1

western bluebird-  14

American robin-  15

house finch-  100 (rarely out of sight/earshot; probably too low an estimate)

lesser goldfinch-  2

American goldfinch-  8

Savannah sparrow-  1 (best bird of the outing)

song sparrow-  50

California towhee-  2 (also a surprise, in the north near the floating structures over Lost Slough)

spotted towhee-  40

western meadowlark-  1

Bullock’s oriole-  4

red-winged blackbird-  4 (!)

brown-headed cowbird-  7

Brewer’s blackbird-  1

blackbird sp.-  180

common yellowthroat-  16

black-headed grosbeak-  1