July Sightings
South Marsh Loop: American White Pelican; Brown Pelican; Double-crested Cormorant; Great Blue Heron; Great Egret; Snowy Egret; Black-crowned Night-Heron; Canada Geese; Mallards; Turkey Vulture; White-tailed Kite; Northern Harrier; Red-shouldered Hawk; Red-tailed Hawk; Cooper’s Hawk; Greater Yellowlegs; Willets; Killdeer; Long-billed Curlew; Whimbrel; Marbled Godwit; Spotted Sandpiper; Ring-billed Gull; California Gull ; Western Gull; Barn Owl; Caspian Tern; Band-tailed Pigeon; Mourning Dove; Anna’s Hummingbird; Belted Kingfisher; Acorn Woodpecker, Downy Woodpecker; Pacific-slope Flycatcher; Black Phoebe; Western Scrub-Jay; American Crow; Barn, Tree, & Cliff Swallow; Chestnut-backed Chickadee; Oak Titmouse; Bushtit; Bewick’s Wren; Western Bluebird; Wilson’s Warbler; Northern Mockingbird; Spotted Towhee; California Towhee; Savannah Sparrow; Song Sparrow; European Starling; Wrentit; Dark-eyed Junco; House Finch; Lesser Goldfinch; American Goldfinch
June Sightings
South Marsh Loop: American White & Brown Pelicans; Western Grebe; Double-crested Cormorants; Great Blue Heron; Great & Snowy Egret; Black-crowned Nite Heron; Canada Geese; Gadwalls; Mallards; Turkey Vulture; White-tailed Kite; Red-shouldered Hawk; Red-tailed Hawk; Cooper’s Hawk; Black-bellied Plover; Whimbrel; Willets; Killdeer; California Quail; Long-billed Curlew; Marbled Godwit; Spotted Sandpiper; Gull sp.; Western Gull; Caspian Tern; Band-tailed Pigeon; Eurasian-collared Dove; Morning Dove; Anna’s & Allen’s Hummingbird; Belted Kingfisher; Acorn Woodpecker & Hairy Woodpecker; Pacific-sloped Flycatcher; Black & Say’s Phoebe; Huttons’s Vireo; Stellar & Western Scrub Jay; American Crow; Barn, Tree, & Cliff Swallow; Chestnut-backed Chickadee; Oak Titmouse; Western Bluebird; Bushtit; Bewick’s Wren; Ruby-crowned Kinglet; Yellow-rumped Warbler; Orange-crowned Warbler; Wilson’s Warbler; Common-yellow throat; Northern Mockingbird; Spotted Towhee; California Towhee; Song Sparrow; Californian Thrasher; Swainson’s Thrush; European Starling; Wrentit; Dark-eyed Junco; Western Meadowlark; Black-headed Grosbeak; House Finch; Red-winged Blackbirds; American Goldfinch
Thanks again to our spotters: Annie McNeill, Shirley Murphy, Jeana De La Torre, Linda Jordan, Caroline Rodgers , Marth Kenner, Deirdre Baxter, Laura DeMars, Plant ladies and your reporter Sheryl Gaebelein.
September 27, 2010 at 7:18 am
While birding in Elkhorn Slough this weekend with Captain Yohn on the Elkhorn Slough Safari, we noted a Barn Owl flying over us at about 11am on Sunday morning. It was awesome!