Today Kay and I birded Mile Square Park in Fountain Valley. It seemed like a fairly birdy area on the way to Huntington Beach and had easy access from our place in Fullerton without fighting Highway traffic in the morning.
It was pretty much as expected. The uncommon SoCal birds that have been seen there were pretty easy to find, namely two sub-species of Cackling goose, minima
and Aleutian, Snow Goose, and we found 31 species altogether, including nice looks at a Lark sparrow
Western bluebirds, Black-crowned night herons
and Bushtits.
From there we spent a couple of hours at Huntington Beach which was pretty quiet from a birding standpoint, added BRPE, HEGU, and OSPR to my ABA year list.