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    Fortuna
    Pond 
      
    16 Oct 99 
      
    75 ° & sunny,
    0900-10151
      Pied-billed Grebe 
    3 American Coots 
    1 Double-crested Cormorant (flying by) 
    8 Gambel's quail 
    2 Northern Harriers (soaring) 
    3 Turkey Vultures (soaring) 
    2 Greater Roadrunners (on levee) 
    1 Ladder-backed Woodpecker 
    8 Tree Swallows 
    2 Loggerhead Shrikes 
    22 Red-winged Blackbirds (flying by) 
    2 Black Phoebes 
    4 Verdins 
    2 Wilson's Warblers 
    22 Yellow-rumped Warblers 
    2 Orange-crowned Warblers 
    3 Common Yellowthroats 
    1 Song Sparrow 
    1 White-crowned Sparrow 
    1 Fox sparrow 
     
    A beautiful fall morning.  The fox sparrow was an unexpected surprise, and
    I even got one decent photo of it! 
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