Santa Ana NWR, 3/30/10

I spent a couple more mornigs at the hawk tower at Santa Ana NWR hoping to get some new year birds and maybe some pics. Neither morning produced Hook-billed Kite but I did see Mississippi (no pic) and Swallow-tailed Kites.





This morning there were probably over 1000 Broad-winged Hawks coming up on the morning thermals.



And quite a few Swainson's Hawks.



Sunday had a couple of hundred Anhingas.



I checked out Pintail Lake and had these side by side Neotropic and Double-crested Cormorants.



Black-bellied Whistling-Duck 70
Mottled Duck 12
Blue-winged Teal 60
Northern Shoveler 40
Green-winged Teal 3
Ring-necked Duck 1
Ruddy Duck 4
Plain Chachalaca 2
Least Grebe 10
Pied-billed Grebe 2
Neotropic Cormorant 5
Double-crested Cormorant 1
Anhinga 200
Great Egret 3
Snowy Egret 4
Little Blue Heron 2
Cattle Egret 4
Black-crowned Night-Heron 6
White-faced Ibis 4
Roseate Spoonbill 1
Black Vulture 1
Turkey Vulture 12
Osprey 1
Swallow-tailed Kite 1
White-tailed Kite 2
Mississippi Kite 3
Sharp-shinned Hawk 1
Harris's Hawk 1
Broad-winged Hawk 300
Gray Hawk 1
Swainson's Hawk 10
Common Moorhen 3
American Coot 25
Killdeer 2
Black-necked Stilt 55
Spotted Sandpiper 1
Least Sandpiper 60
Stilt Sandpiper 6
Long-billed Dowitcher 150
Mourning Dove 10
White-tipped Dove 2
Ringed Kingfisher 1
Green Kingfisher 1
Golden-fronted Woodpecker 5
Ladder-backed Woodpecker 3
Great Kiskadee 10
Couch's Kingbird 10
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher 6
White-eyed Vireo 1
Tree Swallow 1
Northern Rough-winged Swallow 10
Cliff Swallow 5
Barn Swallow 1
Black-crested Titmouse 1
Carolina Wren 1
House Wren 1
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 10
Long-billed Thrasher 6
European Starling 3
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle) 3
Common Yellowthroat 8
Olive Sparrow 1
Lincoln's Sparrow 3
Northern Cardinal 1
Red-winged Blackbird 50
Great-tailed Grackle 15
Bronzed Cowbird 6
Hooded Oriole 1
Altamira Oriole 3