San
Diego Bird Festival
Feb
5-9, 2003
Page
Three
"San
Diego 100 South"
By Bob Miller
A whirlwind tour of
San Diego in an attempt to see at least 100 species!!
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108
species (list follows at end
of page)
Click on
thumbnail pictures for full-sized shots.
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Nuttall's Woodpecker
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Our first stop was Mission Trails park where we
had nice looks at White-tailed Kite, Western Meadowlark and more
for a good start on our score card.
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From there we went into Santee Lakes where Tricolored Blackbird and
many waterfowl were added to list.
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Northern Flicker
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Lesser Goldfinch
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A blown radiator hose threw a kink in our game
plan so we enjoyed a walk around the lake while we awaited a
replacement bus.
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White-crowned Sparrow
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We soon hit
the road for Lindo Lake where we picked up a few unexpected treats
like Red-naped Sapsucker and Downey Woodpecker.
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El Monte
County Park is where we ate our lunch under the big oak trees
where we picked up Oak Titmouse, American Robin, etc..
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Mallard
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Heermann's Gull |
With time
running short we headed for Quivira Basin cutting out the most
southern part of the itinerary.
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We picked up
many new birds here but were still short of our century mark at
the cutoff time of 1500 so we pretended to look the other way as
we drove past festival HQ heading for the San Diego River channel
for some high speed "air-conditioned bird blind"
birding!!
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Pacific Loon
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Burrowing Owl
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Without getting out
of the bus we crept along the channel adding amazingly cooperative
birds in rapid fire succession! This Burrowing Owl was a nice
treat to end the afternoon as we pulled into HQ about 30 minutes
late with 108 species!!
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