Date: 3/29/25 10:08 am From: Rubba Johanna via groups.io <jer72701...> Subject: [slocobirding] Santa Margarita Lake
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Monday , March 17, 2025
Spent a quiet few hours at Santa Margarita Lake late yesterday afternoon. The lake was not very birdy, but there were plenty of birds on land:
Western bluebird
Oregon Junco
Redwing blackbird
White-Crowned sparrow
Golden-crowned sparrow
Song sparrow
Ruddy duck
Western/Clark’s grebe
Oak titmouse
Canada goose
Cormorant
California quail
Great-tailed grackle
European starling
California Towhee
Eurasian collared dove
Yellow-rumped warbler
I heard the Grebes doing their power paddle, but they had settled back onto the water by the time I put my binoculars on them.
I was a little surprised to see the Great-tailed grackle. I know they have been increasing their range, but I don’t recall seeing them away from built up areas. It certainly was very noisy, disturbing the quiet of a nearly empty park.
