South Marsh Loop: American White Pelicans; Loon spp.; Western Grebe; Clark’s Grebe; Double-crested Cormorants; Great Blue Heron; Great & Snowy Egrets; Black-crowned Night Herons; Green Heron; Northern Pintails; Canada Geese; Mallards; Northern Harrier; Turkey Vulture; White-tailed Kite; Red-shouldered Hawk; Red-tailed Hawk; Sharp-shinned Hawk; California Quail; Killdeer; Willets; American Avocets; Black-bellied Plovers; Greater Yellowlegs; Long-billed Curlew; Whimbrel; Marbled Godwit; Dunlins; Spotted Sandpiper; Sandpiper spp.; Dowitchers spp.; Ring-billed Gull; Western Gull; Mourning Dove; Barn Owl; Great-horned Owl; Caspian Tern; Forster’s Tern; Band-tailed Pigeons; Anna’s Hummingbird; Allen’s Hummingbird; Rufous Hummingbird; Belted Kingfisher; Acorn & Downy, Nuttall’s Woodpecker; Pacific-sloped Flycatcher; Black Phoebe; Steller’s Jay; Western Scrub-Jay; Hutton’s Vireo; American Crow; Raven; Barn, Tree, Cliff & Violet-green Swallows; Chestnut-backed Chickadee; Oak Titmouse; Western Bluebird; European Starling; Bushtit; Bewick’s Wren; Ruby-crowned Kinglet; Western Kingbird; Common Yellowthroat; Wilson’s Warbler; Audubon Warbler; Spotted Towhee; California Towhee; Song Sparrow; Brewer’s Blackbird; Red-winged Blackbirds; Brown-headed Cowbirds; Western Meadowlark; Black-headed Grosbeak; American Robin; Wrentit; House Finch; House Sparrow; Dark-eyed Junco; White & Golden-crowned Sparrow; American Goldfinch
Long Valley: Marbled Godwits; Western Kingbird; American Crow; Cliff Swallow;
Chestnut-backed Chickadee; California & Spotted Towhee
Jetty Road : Western Grebe; Brown Pelican; Double-crested Cormorants; Marbled Godwits; Great & Snowy Egrets; Willets; Western Gulls
Visitor Center : Western Bluebirds
Thanks again to our spotters: Annie McNeill; Katherine Klein, Shirley Murphy, Marth Kenner, Mark Paxton; Linda Jordon, Plant ladies and your reporter Sheryl Gaebelein
Barn owls fledged from box behind Visitors Center about May 1-3 – Shirley
July 16, 2009 at 5:13 am
Does anyone know what has brought the White Pelicans to our area? My bird book doesn’t even list them as birds of the Pacific Coast. Is it as rare to see them here? I’ve never seen them before.