RITA & DON GET MARRIED     4 May 2002     Odello Lagoon, Carmel R. mouth
with reception following at "Indian Summer" restaurant in downtown Monterey

Don Roberson & Rita Carratello will honeymoon in east Africa in summer 2002....

Rita & Don's wedding weekend list   [birds at the Odello site, Carmel R. mouth, 4-5 May 2002]

1 Pied-billed Grebe
2 Brown Pelican
3 Great Blue Heron
4 Great Egret
5 Snowy Egret
6 Turkey Vulture
7 Canada Goose
8 Mallard
9 Northern Pintail (late male)
10 Bufflehead (late male)
11 Common Merganser
     (male on 5 May)
12 Red-breasted Merganser
13 White-tailed Kite
14 Northern Harrier
15 Red-shouldered Hawk
16 Red-tailed Hawk
17 Peregrine Falcon
18 California Quail
19 American Coot
20 Semipalmated Plover
21 Killdeer
22 American Avocet
  (rare here, present a week)
23 Greater Yellowlegs
24 Spotted Sandpiper
25 Western Sandpiper
26 Least Sandpiper
27 Bonaparte's Gull
28 California Gull
29 Western Gull
30 Caspian Tern
31 Rock Dove (I)
32 Band-tailed Pigeon
33 Mourning Dove
34 Vaux's Swift
35 Anna's Hummingbird
36 Nuttall's Woodpecker
37 Downy Woodpecker
38 Northern Flicker
39 Pacific-slope Flycatcher 
40 Black Phoebe
41 Ash-throated Flycatcher
42 Western Kingbird
43 Warbling Vireo
44 Western Scrub-Jay
45 American Crow 
46 Tree Swallow
47 Violet-green Swallow
48 N. Rough-wing Swallow
49 Cliff Swallow
50 Barn Swallow
51 Chestnut-b'd Chickadee
52 Bushtit 
53 Bewick's Wren
54 Swainson's Thrush
55 American Robin
56 Wrentit
57 California Thrasher
58 European Starling (I)
59 Cedar Waxwing
60 Orange-crowned Warbler
61 Yellow Warbler
62 Yellow-rumped Warbler
63 Common Yellowthroat
64 Hooded Warbler
    (singing male both days!)
65 Wilson's Warbler
66 Yellow-breasted Chat
67 Western Tanager
68 Spotted Towhee
69 California Towhee
70 Song Sparrow
71 Black-headed Grosbeak
72 Lazuli Bunting
73 Red-winged Blackbird
74 Brewer's Blackbird
75 Brown-headed Cowbird
76 Purple Finch
77 House Finch
78 Lesser Goldfinch
79 Lawrence's Goldfinch
80 American Goldfinch
We thank Rick Fournier & Dan Singer for helping to compile this list, to all our guests who passed on their observations, and to Joe Morlan for finding the Hooded Warbler! [we both saw it well the next day]  Wedding photos courtesy of David Kong

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