Santa Ana NWR, 5/19/07

Nice cloudy, cool morning at Santa Ana NWR. I didn't see anything great but ten species of warblers were a bit unexpected this late into the spring. Every spring I hear Empidonax flycatchers that make a loud, repetetive, vigorous "schpeek" call. Today I saw one that was oviously Yellow-bellied Flycatcher doing the call, but I saw a couple of others that were browner and less yellow below giving the same call. Last September I was calling these Acadian Flycatchers but was told Acadians migrate later and that they were Yellow-bellieds. So I remain a bit confused but this is a for sure Yellow-bellied.



There were plenty of Red-eyed Vireos today.



Black-bellied Whistling-Duck 6
Blue-winged Teal 2
Northern Pintail 1
Plain Chachalaca 10
Least Grebe 1
Neotropic Cormorant 2
Great Egret 10
Snowy Egret 1
Little Blue Heron 3
Tricolored Heron 2
Green Heron 1
Harris's Hawk 1
Common Moorhen 1
Killdeer 1
Spotted Sandpiper 1
White-rumped Sandpiper 1
Stilt Sandpiper 1
White-winged Dove 35
Mourning Dove 6
Inca Dove 1
Common Ground-Dove 1
White-tipped Dove 3
Yellow-billed Cuckoo 10
Groove-billed Ani 7
Eastern Screech-Owl 1
Lesser Nighthawk 1
Buff-bellied Hummingbird 2
Ruby-throated Hummingbird 1
Ringed Kingfisher 1
Golden-fronted Woodpecker 6
Ladder-backed Woodpecker 3
Northern Beardless-Tyrannulet 1
Eastern Wood-Pewee 12
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher 4
Brown-crested Flycatcher 10
Great Kiskadee 6
Couch's Kingbird 4
Eastern Kingbird 1
White-eyed Vireo 4
Philadelphia Vireo 2
Red-eyed Vireo 12
Green Jay 1
Barn Swallow 2
Cliff Swallow 4
Black-crested Titmouse 5
Carolina Wren 3
Northern Mockingbird 10
Long-billed Thrasher 10
Clay-colored Robin 4
European Starling 1
Northern Parula 1
Yellow Warbler 1
Chestnut-sided Warbler 3
Magnolia Warbler 3
Black-throated Green Warbler 2
Blackburnian Warbler 1
Bay-breasted Warbler 1
Black-and-white Warbler 1
American Redstart 3
Common Yellowthroat 12
Olive Sparrow 10
Northern Cardinal 4
Indigo Bunting 2
Red-winged Blackbird 10
Great-tailed Grackle 15
Bronzed Cowbird 12
Hooded Oriole 2