Wednesday, June 03, 2009

June 3 - Salton Sea

In a word, overwhelming. A great day of birding, including a life bird yet I wonder how many species I also missed !

Temp was 108 while I was 226 feet below Sea Level.



Thousands and thousands of birds. An example is the baker's dozen of Long-Billed Curlews, or the hundreds of Caspian Terns.

Eared Grebe
Pied-Billed Grebe
Western Grebe
Clark's Grebe
White Pelican
Brown Pelican
DC Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Snowy Egret
Cattle Egret
Black-crowned Heron
White-Faced Ibis
Gadwall
Pintail
Shoveler
Redhead
Red-breasted Merganser
TV
Osprey
Kestrel
Gambel's Quail
Moorhen
Coot
Killdeer
Avocet
Black-necked stilt
Willet
LB Curlew
Marbled Godwit
Bonaparte's Gull
Cal. Gull
Yellow-Footed Gull (#583)

Caspian Tern
Elegant Tern
Royal Tern
Common Tern
Forsters Tern
Gull-Billed Tern
Black Tern
Skimmer
Modo
White-winged Dove
Eurasian collared Dove
Ground Dove
Roadrunner
Lesser Nighthawk
Black-Chin Hummer
Gila Woodpecker
W Pewee
Black Phoebe
Cassin's Kingbird
Western Kingbird
Raven
Crow
Rough-winged Swallow
Barn Swallow
Cliff Swallow
Verdin
Marsh Wren
Black-Tailed Gnat
Moclingbird
Common Yellowthroat
Yellow warbler
Abert's Towhee
W Meadowlark
Cowbird
Yellow-Headed Blackbird
Red-winged Blackbird
House finch
House sparrow

And a few species of gulls were missed I am sure !