Day 1 at The Salton Sea
Details and pictures to follow but here’s the day list:
- Mallard
- Northern Shoveler
- Horned Grebe
- Eared Grebe
- Western Grebe
- American White Pelican
- Double-crested Cormorant
- Great Blue Heron
- Great Egret
- Snowy Egret
- White-faced Ibis
- Common Moorhen
- American Coot
- Black-bellied Plover
- Killdeer
- Black-necked Stilt
- American Avocet
- Willet
- Least Sandpiper
- Bonaparte’s Gull
- Ring-billed Gull
- California Gull
- Herring Gull
- Glaucous-winged Gull
- Caspian Tern
- Forster’s Tern
- White-winged Dove
- Mourning Dove
- Black Phoebe
- Say’s Phoebe
- Loggerhead Shrike
- Violet-green Swallow
- Verdin
- Northern Mockingbird
- European Starling
- Phainopepla
- Common Yellowthroat
- Abert’s Towhee
- White-crowned Sparrow
- Brewer’s Blackbird
- Great-tailed Grackle
- Brown-headed Cowbird
- House Finch
- House Sparrow
- American Wigeon
- Cinnamon Teal
- Green-winged Teal
- Ruddy Duck
- Gambel’s Quail
- Brown Pelican
- Cattle Egret
- Northern Harrier
- American Kestrel
- Peregrine Falcon
- Long-billed Curlew
- Marbled Godwit
- Long-billed Dowitcher
- Rock Pigeon
- Common Ground-Dove
- Barn Owl
- Northern Flicker
- Western Kingbird
- Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
- Yellow-rumped Warbler
- Chipping Sparrow
- Red-winged Blackbird
66 species including 2 life birds, Abert’s Towhee and Common Ground-dove. However I may be too late for the Yellow-footed Gulls. No albatrosses or boobies either. :-(
More tomorrow. Gila Woodpecker? Sandhill Crane? Mountain Plover? Crissal’s Thrasher?
