Date: 5/23/26 5:48 pm From: Karen via groups.io <karush111...> Subject: [southbaybirds] Field Notes: Rancho Canada del Oro
Hello Everyone,
I would like to thank you for coming on this beautiful morning to explore Rancho Canada del Oro with Susan, Craig and I. Thanks to Susan for keeping the ebird list and Craig for rounding everyone up. We saw 33 species today and multiple views of quite a few of them. We started the morning by practicing our binocular skills and we soon started looking at all the birds in the parking lot. We had two Ash-Throated Flycatchers, California Towhees, Turkey Vultures, a perched Red-tailed Hawk, Western Bluebirds, Violet-green Swallow, European Starlings, Brewer's Blackbirds and Black Phoebes with a many Acorn Woodpeckers making a lot of noise in the background.
As we made our way around the loop trails we added Chestnut Chick-a-dees doing their upside down acrobatics, Spotted Towhees stirring up the leaves with their feet and a beautiful male Western Tanager. We also had a pair of California Towhees displaying and picking up nesting material in addition to numerous Acorn Woodpeckers and Lesser Goldfinches. We finished the walk with a Wild Turkey and a couple of Common Ravens. We heard, but never saw a Black-headed Grosbeaks, Western Wood-Peewee, Western Flycatcher and a Warbling Vireo.
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