San Jacinto

Two stops were chosen for the final day in California before embarking on a long drive home. The first stop was at the San Jacinto Wildlife Area in Lakeview, Riverside County. The target bird was Tricolored Blackbird which is locally common at this site, but following a trend at the end of the trip, we dipped again. However the wetlands area was very impressive and we had Little Blue Heron and Greater Yellowlegs. We then drove into the Idyllwild area of the San Jacinto Mountains in search of White-headed Woodpecker. Again no luck! We didn't see too much of note but I added Band-tailed Pigeon for my third year bird of the day, and I headed out of California with my year's total at 253.