April 2008
Sunday April 6, 2008
Coyote Hills EBRP: Area around visitor‚s center and Bay View Trail from Quarry Staging Area to No Name Trail, returning to the Butterfly Garden at the Visitor‚s Center.
It was a cool and overcast day with a bit of sun late in the morning.
We started around 9 and finished around noon. We had more ducks than expected, including all three teals and a lot of Northern Shovelers; there were female Bufflehead but no males. We saw a White-tailed Kite sparring with a Northern Harrier and a pair of Red-tailed Hawks building a nest in one of the large pines up the hill in back of the Visitor's Center.
51 Species seen:
Clark's Grebe
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Snowy Egret
Canada Goose
Green-winged Teal
Mallard
Blue-winged Teal
Cinnamon Teal
Northern Shoveler
Gadwall
American Wigeon
Greater Scaup
Bufflehead
Ruddy Duck
Turkey Vulture
White-tailed Kite
Northern Harrier
Red-tailed Hawk
Common Moorhen
American Coot
Black-bellied Plover
Killdeer
Black-necked Stilt
American Avocet
Greater Yellowlegs
Western Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
Dunlin
Bonaparte's Gull
Mourning Dove
Anna's Hummingbird
Allen's Hummingbird
Northern Flicker, red-shafted
Black Phoebe
Tree Swallow
Barn Swallow
Western Scrub-Jay
American Crow
Marsh Wren
American Robin
European Starling (I)
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
California Towhee
Song Sparrow
Golden-crowned Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow
Red-winged Blackbird
House Finch
American Goldfinch
kathy jarrett
March 2008
Rodeo Lagoon on Saturday, March 22nd 2008, led by Lisa Hug.
50 species:
Red-throated Loon (both winter & summer plumage)
Western Grebe
Brandt's Cormorant
Pelagic Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Turkey Vulture
Canada Goose
Mallard
Surf Scoter
Common Goldeneye
Red-tailed Hawk
American Kestrel
California Quail (heard only)
Virginia Rail (heard only)
Killdeer
Black Oystercatcher
Wilson's Snipe
Western Gull
Glaucous-winged Gull
Common Murre
Rock Dove
Mourning Dove
Anna's Hummingbird
Allen's Hummingbird
Nuttall's Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Black Phoebe
Western Scrub-Jay
Common Raven
Barn Swallow
Chestnut-backed Chickadee
Bushtit (collecting nest material)
Bewick's Wren
Marsh Wren (collecting nest material)
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
American Robin
Wrentit
European Starling
Orange-crowned Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
Wilson Warbler
California Towhee
Song Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow (Nuttall's race)
Red-winged Blackbird
Brewer's Blackbird
Purple Finch
House Finch
American Goldfinch (feathers wearing to summer plumage)