date and time:  07 September 2025, from 06:45 to 10:50

weather:  clear, breezy out of the west from the start, up to about 10 mph after 08:45, temperatures 55- 72 degrees F.

route:  standard Trochet

solo survey

birds:

Canada goose-  72

wood duck-  3

blue-winged teal-  1

cinnamon teal-  35

northern shoveler-  55

gadwall-  4

mallard-  650

northern pintail-  250

green-winged teal-  70

duck sp.-  720

California quail-  13

wild turkey-  7

mourning dove-  8

black-necked stilt-  25

killdeer-  35

least sandpiper-  4

long-billed dowitcher-  160

greater yellowlegs-  40

snowy egret-  1

great egret-  10

great blue heron-  2

white-faced ibis-  90

turkey vulture-  7

white-tailed kite-  2

northern harrier-  2

red-tailed hawk-  4

Buteo sp.-  1

American barn owl-  1 (yes, one was dumb enough to be out; I found the remains of another that paid the ultimate price for this kind of behavior)

belted kingfisher-  1

downy woodpecker-  5

Nuttall’s woodpecker-  7

northern flicker-  5

American kestrel-  2

ash-throated flycatcher-  1 (getting late?)

western wood-pewee-  2

western flycatcher-  1

black phoebe-  20

Say’s phoebe-  1

warbling vireo-  2 (at Vireo Corner!)

California scrub-jay-  15

American crow-  8

common raven-  1

oak titmouse-  2

barn swallow-  1

swallow sp.-  1

bushtit-  2

wrentit-  2

white-breasted nuthatch-  12

Bewick’s wren-  7

northern house wren-  8

marsh wren-  10

western bluebird-  5

American robin-  8

European starling-  2

house finch-  15

lesser goldfinch-  2

American goldfinch-  8

song sparrow-  9

spotted towhee-  21

western meadowlark-  12

red-winged blackbird-  350 (nothing but bicolored blackbirds seen today; “foreigners” should be coming in soon)

Brewer’s blackbird-  16

blackbird sp.-  220

orange-crowned warbler-  1

McGillivray’s warbler-  1

common yellowthroat-  2

yellow warbler-  4

Wilson’s warbler-  2

western tanager-  2