Fortuna Pond
16 Oct 99
75 ° & sunny, 0900-1015

1 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!