August 3, 2008: Birding San Diego County, California

Spent another day birding with BJ Stacey. We started the day birding further east in San Diego County, out in the Cleveland National Forest Area. Then he showed me some places in South Bay in Imperial Beach, and we went to Delta Beach on Coronado for the rare Red-Necked Stint. We saw it, but it was too far for me to get a photo! Another lifer we saw was a California Thrasher, but I also missed the photo of that!

Kitchen Creek Road in Cleveland NF, East San Diego County (Link) Above and Below: Rufous Crowned Sparrow

Some cool trees
Phainopepla (above and below)

Western Scrub Jay Orange Crowned Warbler

Photos from the Cibbets Flat Campground area on the road Blue Darter Steller's Jay

Western Tanager

Above and Below: Lawrence's Goldfinches

Nice Jimson Weed shot

Pacific Slope Flycatcher

Cholla

Band-Tailed Pigeon (Descanso, Calif.)

Cuyamaca Rancho State Park (Paso Picacho Campground) (link)

Above and Below: Pygmy Nuthatch

White-Breasted Nuthatch Say's Phoebe

American Crow

Above and Below: California Ground Squirrel

Pacific Slope Flycatcher

Acorn Woodpecker

White-Headed Woodpecker

Behr's Metalmark

South Bay - Imperial Beach (link)

Willet

Savannah Sparrows

Double-Crested Cormorant

Little Blue Heron

Delta Beach - Silver Strand Highway - San Diego (Bayside) (link)

Part of this area is restricted, for the endangered Least Tern

Jackrabbit

A varied group of sandpipers

Long-Billed Curlew

Black-Bellied Plover

Marbled Godwit and Short Billed Dowitcher

Lesser Yellowlegs and Wilson's Phalaropes

A view of San Diego from the beach

Flyover Western Gull

A worn looking Lesser Yellowlegs
San Diego River Channel Birding

Whimberel

Snowy Egret

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