Southern California Trip ~ September 12, 1985

We headed south for San Diego. At Sunset Cliffs, Brandt's Cormorants sat with Double-crested Cormorants on a rock outcropping. At the Cabrillo National Monument on Point Loma, I spotted a Hooded Oriole.

Looking northeast from Point Loma, California.

A stop at the South Bay Marine Bio Study Area, below the Silver Strand, yielded my first Long-billed Curlew.

Long-billed Curlew at the South Bay Marine Bio Study Area in San Diego, California.

Also seen there were Black Skimmers, Black-bellied and Semipalmated Plovers, Great Egret, Semipalmated Sandpiper, Short-billed Dowitcher, Common Tern, more Elegant Terns, and the "Belding's" race of Savannah Sparrow. An Osprey was at the Imperial Marsh.

Near Border Field State Park, in the Tia Juana River Valley, were an Allen's Hummingbird and a pair of Wrentits. Also in the river valley, along Dairy Mart Road, were White-faced Ibis and Cattle Egrets. We watched them feed as the Border Patrol watched us!

We headed east from San Diego, stopping at the Old Mission Dam Historical Site. A Townsend's Warbler was there with Common Yellowthroat and Belted Kingfisher.

We spent the night much farther east in the town of Indio.

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