Sorry to hear about the family emergency: I was in So. Cal. For an
interview and San Diego to visit my sister. I was lucky to have been at
the San Diego Sweetwater Unit and the Tijuana Slough NWR on Friday with
some welcomed sun.
My list was the same as yours except no teals, but add widgeons, and
Long-billed Curlew we could have been birding together :)
Marty,
Port Orchard

http://www.martykramerstudio.com





On 3/18/12 3:18 PM, "drsybert at northtown.org" <drsybert at northtown.org>
wrote:

>Tuesday morning, I returned from two weeks in sunny San Diego to 33
>degree temperatures and snow on the ground and--for just a few
>minutes--I wondered what am I doing here!!
>
>Because my trip was in response to a family emergency, I did not get to
>spend much time birding. However, one morning, I went with two of my
>friends to the San Diego River where it empties into the Bay at Ocean
>Beach. We walked along the river banks when the tide was out, so there
>were many birds on the mud flats, and since the river is narrow there,
>we had an excellent view with our binos and scopes.
>
>To my delight, I saw four lifers:
>Green-ringed Teals,
>Blue Winged Teals,
>Spotted Sandpipers, and
>a Wilson's Snipe, lurking in the reeds and watching us watch it.
>
>Interesting also was watching the
>Little Blue Herons, catching many fish with barely a pause to swallow;
>Snowly Egrets, their golden slippers glimpsed through white reflections;
>a Belted Kingfisher, hovering in the air before diving for fish.
>Cinnamon Teal,
>Coots,
>Avocets,
>Stilts,
>Ruddy Ducks,
>Western Willet,
>Marbled Godwits,
>Western Gulls, and
>California Gulls.
>
>And home again, I was thrilled to see all the Varied Thrush at my feeder
>also. Unfortunately, the large flocks of Pine Siskin and Evening
>Grosbeak that were here when I left are gone. Since I was sharing those
>flocks with Kim Mason, I fear that they may have met with disaster.
>Just in case, I am bleaching all my feeders.
>
>Darlene Sybert
>Cinebar
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