Dear Ospreyers, On Thursday I returned from my trip to California. After a slow start I netted 93 total species which included 53 life birds. I had a goal of 50 lifers so atleast I surpassed that. Still, do to some extenuating circumstances and that fact that my family aren't birders I feel I really could have had many more. I kept detailed notes so if anyone has any questions on abundance or location on where I saw birds feel free to email me. Also, thanks for all the very helpful tips. Sooty Shearwater Common Murre Pigeon Guillemot California Gull Western Gull Heerman's Gull Caspian Tern Elegant Tern Least Tern Double-crested Cormorant Pelagic Cormorant Brandt's Cormorant Mallard Redhead Pied-billed Grebe Eared Grebe American Coot Great Egret Snowy Egret Great Blue Heron Green heron Black-crowned Night Heron Black Oystercatcher Long-billed Curlew Killdeer Wilson's Pharalope Lesser Nighthawk Turkey Vulture Osprey Red-tailed Hawk Swainson's Hawk Red-shouldered Hawk Northern Harrier Peregrine Falcon American Kestrel White-throated Swift Vaux's Swift Barn Swallow Cliff Swallow Tree Swallow Rough-winged Swallow Allen's Hummingbird Black-chinned Hummingbird many unidentified hummers Greater Roadrunner California Quail Mourning Dove Rock Dove Northern "Red-shafted" Flicker White-headed Woodpecker Pygmy Nuthatch Brown Creeper Loggerhead Shrike Western Kingbird Cassin's Kingbird Ash-throated Flycatcher Say's Phoebe Black Phoebe Pacific-slope Flycatcher Sage Thrasher Rock Wren Common Raven American Crow Stellar's Jay Western scrub-jay Northern Mockingbird Great-tailed Grackle European Starling Red-winged Blackbird Tricolored Blackbird Brewer's Blackbird Brown-headed Cowbird Western Meadowlark Bullock's Oriole Western Tanager American Robin Western Bluebird "Audobon's" Yellow-rumped Warbler Nashville Warbler Chestnut-backed Chickadee Verdin Bushtit California Towhee Black-headed Grosbeak American Goldfinch House Finch "Oregon" Slate-colored Junco Black-chinned Sparrow White-crowned Sparrow Lark Sparrow Song Sparrow House Sparrow Orange Bishop (!!!!!!gorgeous!!!!!!)