The Wednesday morning group headed out to east Alton Baker Park for a cool bit of birding- no rain as of yet. The small birds were not abundant but eventually productive as we found a good assortment by late morning. Birds seen: Cackling Goose Canada Goose Wood Duck- checking out nest boxes American Wigeon Mallard Lesser Scaup Bufflehead Common Merganser Ring-necked Pheasant- several males only Pied-billed Grebe Double-crested Cormorant Great Blue Heron Turkey Vulture Cooper's Hawk Red-tailed Hawk American Coot Ring-billed Gull Rock Pigeon Eurasian Collared Dove Anna's Hummingbird Belted Kingfisher Downy Woodpecker Northern Flicker Western Scrub Jay American Crow Black-capped Chickadee Bushtit Brown Creeper Bewick's Wren Pacific Wren Ruby-crowned Kinglet American Robin Varied Thrush Yellow-rumped Warbler Spotted Towhee Fox Sparrow Song Sparrow White-throated Sparrow White-crowned Sparrow Golden-crowned Sparrow Dark-eyed Junco Red-winged Blackbird House Finch American Goldfinch European Starling Dennis Arendt, Kit Larson, Fred Chancey, Steve & Judy Franzen, Ellen Cantor, Dave Brown, Sara Vasconcellos, Joni Dawning, Randy Sinnott, Jim Regali, Charlie Thomas and Don Schrouder. OBOL archives: www.freelists.org/archive/obol Manage your account or unsubscribe: //www.freelists.org/list/obol Contact moderators: obol-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx