On Saturday (Mar 16) Rick Romea, Al, Mike, Brock, Lowell, and I spent a great day roaming Yuma County in search of birds and came up with 112 species.
(FOS = First of Season)
We started out at the Yuma West Wetlands with
CRISSAL THRASHER
WARBLING VIREO (FOS)
North and west of Yuma the BURROWING OWLS were out in force, and we had 13 of them.
Along the Yuma Main Drain we had 6 HOODED MERGANSERS, and along another drain farther along we had a COMMON MERGANSER.
We spent an hour south of County Ave 19 and had the following raptor count:
NORTHEN HARRIER
RED-TAILED HAWK, 12
FERRUGINOUS HAWK, 8
SWAINSON’S HAWK, 14
In the Wellton area we had:
GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GEESE (Coyote Wash Golf Course)
WESTERN SANDPIPER (FOS)
RED-NAPED SAPSUCKER
WILSON’S WARBLER (FOS)
2 BLACK-CHINNED HUMMINGBIRD (FOS)
BULLOCK’S ORIOLE (FOS)
At Imperial NWR and Martinez Lake were:
6+ LUCY’S WARBLERS (heard and seen)
4 RED-BREASTED MERGANSERS
GREATER SCAUP
2 NEOTROPIC CORMORANTS
Finally, on the east side of the Yuma West Wetlands we had a VERY large western diamond-backed rattlesnake.
This past Thursday and Friday (14-15 Mar) Al and Helga have had a ZONE-TAILED HAWK fly over their place in south-central Yuma.
On Thursday (14 Mar) Brock had a GRAY VIREO in the King Valley on Kofa NWR.
Good hunting!
Henry
Bird List, 16 Mar 2013
1 Pied-billed Grebe
2 Eared Grebe
3 Western Grebe
4 Clark’s Grebe
5 Neotropic Cormorant
6 Double-crested Cormorant
7 Great Blue Heron
8 Great Egret
9 Snowy Egret
10 Cattle Egret
11 Green Heron
12 Black-crowned Night Heron
13 White-faced Ibis
14 Greater White-fronted Goose
15 Canada Goose
16 Gadwall
17 Blue-winged Teal
18 Mallard
19 Cinnamon Teal
20 Northern Shoveler
21 Green-winged Teal
22 Redhead
23 Ring-necked Duck
24 Greater Scaup
25 Bufflehead
26 Common Goldeneye
27 Hooded Merganser
28 Common Merganser
29 Red-breasted Merganser
30 Ruddy Duck
31 Osprey
32 Northern Harrier
33 Cooper’s Hawk
34 Swainson’s Hawk
35 Red-tailed Hawk
36 Ferruginous Hawk
37 American Kestrel
38 Ring-necked Pheasant
39 Gambel’s Quail
40 Clapper Rail
41 Sora
42 Common Moorhen
43 American Coot
44 Killdeer
45 Black-necked Stilt
46 Greater Yellowlegs
47 Spotted Sandpiper
48 Long-billed Curlew
49 Western Sandpiper
50 Least Sandpiper
51 Long-billed Dowitcher
52 Wilson’s Snipe
53 Turkey Vulture
54 Rock Pigeon
55 Mourning Dove
56 Inca Dove
57 Common Ground-Dove
58 Eurasian Collared Dove
59 Greater Roadrunner
60 Great Horned Owl
61 Burrowing Owl
62 Black-chinned Hummingbird
63 Anna’s Hummingbird
64 Costa’s Hummingbird
65 Belted Kingfisher
66 Gila Woodpecker
67 Red-naped Sapsucker
68 Ladder-backed Woodpecker
69 Northern Flicker
70 Black Phoebe
71 Say’s Phoebe
72 Vermilion Flycatcher
73 Ash-throated Flycatcher
74 Western Kingbird
75 Loggerhead Shrike
76 Warbling Vireo
77 Common Raven
78 Horned Lark
79 Tree Swallow
80 Northern Rough-winged Swallow
81 Cliff Swallow
82 Verdin
83 House Wren
84 Marsh Wren
85 Ruby-crowned Kinglet
86 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
87 Black-tailed Gnatcatcher
88 Northern Mockingbird
89 Crissal Thrasher
90 European Starling
91 Phainopepla
92 Wilson’s Warbler
93 Orange-crowned Warbler
94 Yellow-rumped Warbler
95 Common Yellowthroat
96 Abert’s Towhee
97 Chipping Sparrow
98 Brewer’s Sparrow
99 Savannah Sparrow
100 Song Sparrow
101 Lincoln’s Sparrow
102 White-crowned Sparrow
103 Red-winged Blackbird
104 Western Meadowlark
105 Yellow-headed Blackbird
106 Brewer’s Blackbird
107 Great-tailed Grackle
108 Brown-headed Cowbird
109 Bullock’s Oriole
110 House Finch
111 Lesser Goldfinch
112 House Sparrow
Greetings Birders,
Mike, Wendy, and I spent a beautiful day on the 1st of March in the Imperial Valley and along the southeast portion of the Salton Sea. Nothing rare, but lots of the regulars.
We had three owl species for the day. A number of BURROWING OWLS were just barely peering at us along Garst Road. At the headquarters one of the volunteers pointed out a GREAT HORNED OWL; the BARN OWL was in its regular “palm” perch.
Verdin, Salton Sea NWR Headquarters
At Unit 1 one mid-sized flock of SNOW/ROSS’S GEESE and a small flock of SANDHILL CRANES remain in the Valley. We enjoyed watching an AMERICAN BITTERN that made two passes next to the lookout tower and a listening to a number of CLAPPER RAILS calling.
A first-of-season VIOLET-GREEN SWALLOW was a good sighting.
At the remediation marsh on the north side of McDonald was a WHITE-TAILED KITE; last weekend we had one just east of Unit 1.
White-tailed Kite
Good birding!
Henry
March 1, 2013
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1 Pied-billed Grebe
2 Eared Grebe
3 Western Grebe
4 Clark’s Grebe
5 American White Pelican
6 Brown Pelican
7 Double-crested Cormorant
8 American Bittern
9 Great Blue Heron
10 Great Egret
11 Snowy Egret
12 Cattle Egret
13 Black-crowned Night Heron
14 White-faced Ibis
15 Sandhill Crane
16 Snow Goose
17 Ross’ s Goose
18 Gadwall
19 American Wigeon
20 Mallard
21 Cinnamon Teal
22 Northern Shoveler
23 Northern Pintail
24 Green-winged Teal
25 Canvasback
26 Redhead
27 Greater Scaup
28 Bufflehead
29 Ruddy Duck
30 White-tailed Kite
31 Northern Harrier
32 Cooper’s Hawk
33 Red-tailed Hawk
34 American Kestrel
35 Merlin
36 Ring-necked Pheasant
37 Gambel’s Quail
38 Clapper Rail
39 Virginia Rail
40 Sora
41 American Coot
42 Black-bellied Plover
43 Killdeer
44 Black-necked Stilt
45 American Avocet
46 Greater Yellowlegs
47 Lesser Yellowlegs
48 Willet
49 Long-billed Curlew
50 Marbled Godwit
51 Least Sandpiper
52 Long-billed Dowitcher
53 Turkey Vulture
54 Ring-billed Gull
55 Herring Gull
56 Caspian Tern
57 Rock Pigeon
58 Mourning Dove
59 Common Ground-Dove
60 Eurasian Collared Dove
61 Greater Roadrunner
62 Barn Owl
63 Great Horned Owl
64 Burrowing Owl
65 Anna’s Hummingbird
66 Costa’s Hummingbird
67 Belted Kingfisher
68 Gila Woodpecker
69 Northern Flicker
70 Black Phoebe
71 Say’s Phoebe
72 Common Raven
73 Horned Lark
74 Tree Swallow
75 Violet-green Swallow
76 Northern Rough-winged Swallow
77 Verdin
78 Cactus Wren
79 Rock Wren
80 Marsh Wren
81 Ruby-crowned Kinglet
82 Black-tailed Gnatcatcher
83 American Robin
84 Northern Mockingbird
85 European Starling
86 American Pipit
87 Phainopepla
88 Yellow-rumped Warbler
89 Common Yellowthroat
90 Orange-crowned Warbler
91 Abert’s Towhee
92 Chipping Sparrow
93 Savannah Sparrow
94 Song Sparrow
95 White-crowned Sparrow
96 Red-winged Blackbird
97 Western Meadowlark
98 Great-tailed Grackle
99 House Finch
100 House Sparrow