Bird List 8/28/24

We had 14 birders and logged 48 species.
Conditions: Sunny; 58 degrees at 0700, 86 degrees at 1015.

Notables: Nashville warbler; Black-throated gray warbler; Blue grosbeak. Also, the Empidonax sp. in Kurt’s ebird posting may have been a Gray flycatcher.
High counts: House finch (38); Bushtit (21); Lesser goldfinch (19); Anna’s hummingbird (14); California scrub-jay (12); Costa’s hummingbird (11); Yellow warbler (11); Gambel’s quail (9); White-winged dove (9).

Mammals: Mule deer; Desert cottontail; California ground squirrel.
Lizards: Desert spiny; Side-blotched; Whiptail.
Butterflies: Gray hairstreak, Western pygmy-blue, Lorquin’s admiral; Dammer’s dotted blue. Also, one unidentified Nymphalid.