It was a very pleasant morning when 12 of us (Barbara Bean, Eleanor Campbell, Marshall Esty, Shirley Fackelman, Dick Fogle, Dean and Joan Luehrs, Andrea Nesbitt, Chuck Richard, Rich Schooler, Sam Stearman and George Wall – leader) met at the Hayfield Site at the Tres Rios Wetlands to do some birding.

 Andrea Nesbitt, from Adobe Mountain Wildlife Center, had brought an immature Snowy Egret she was going to release. We all headed down to the first pond and found a likely spot and there as we all looked on the young bird was released. After the release, we started doing some serious birding.

 Yellow-headed Blackbirds were all over the place and probably gathering for their migration. A pair of Ospreys circled over us at the larger pond and just as we were ready to leave Tres Rios, a flight of White-faced Ibis flew by.

 The 29 species seen were Great Egret, Snowy Egret, Great Blue Heron, Green Heron, Black-crowned Night Heron, Pied-billed Grebe, Eared Grebe, Double-crested Cormorant, Neotropic Cormorant, Mallard, Cinnamon Teal, American Coot, Common Moorhen, White-faced Ibis, Black-necked Stilt, Killdeer, Osprey, Red-tailed Hawk, American Kestrel, Turkey Vulture, Greater Roadrunner, Morning Dove, Abert’s Towhee, Green-tailed Towhee, Anna’s Hummingbird, possible Rufous Hummingbird, Verdin, Red-winged Blackbird and Yellow-headed Blackbird.