[EBB Sightings] Fwd: eBird Report - Coyote Hills Regional Park , 3/30/09

Location:     Coyote Hills Regional Park
Observation date:     3/30/09 8:35 am - 2:50 pm
 
Laurie Graham, Jeff Fairclough, Elisabeth Koster

We knew we wouldn't get the Brown Thrasher or the Black Rail, as too much time has passed since their sightings, but Elisabeth had never been to Coyote Hills. The weather was sunny and windyand the park was spring green. We saw the Great Horned Owl on nest in Hoot Hollow. Walked up Glider Hill and saw the Chilean Flamingo in the bay. Walked up Red Hill for Rock Wren. Took the Nike Trail to Bayview to Lizard Rock Trail, where we met Alice Houk. We began spotting Wilson's Snipe on an island of flattened reeds, four at first, eventually 17. We continued to Dust to look at the Tree Swallows checking out their nest boxes, then to Muskrat through the marsh back to the Visitors' Center. Drove to the Quarry Staging area and out to South Marsh and the Meadowlark Trail. There were Marsh Wrens everywhere, and we found a nest.

Number of species:     60

Canada Goose     57
Gadwall     15
American Wigeon     37
Mallard     96
Cinnamon Teal     16
Northern Shoveler     220
Northern Pintail     16
Green-winged Teal     34
Canvasback     5
Bufflehead     6
Ruddy Duck     63
Pied-billed Grebe     4
Western Grebe     1
American White Pelican     3     1 with breeding knob
Great Blue Heron     2
Great Egret     11
Snowy Egret     2
Black-crowned Night-Heron     4
Turkey Vulture     6
White-tailed Kite     1
Northern Harrier     5
Red-tailed Hawk     6
American Coot     78
Killdeer     5
Black-necked Stilt     27
Wilson's Snipe     21
California Gull     57
Mourning Dove     9
Great Horned Owl     1     on nest
Anna's Hummingbird     6
Allen's Hummingbird     1
Northern Flicker     1
Black Phoebe     8
Western Scrub-Jay (Coastal)     11
Common Raven     6
Tree Swallow     76
Northern Rough-winged Swallow     3
Barn Swallow     13
Bushtit     6
Rock Wren     1
House Wren     2
Marsh Wren     21
Hermit Thrush     2
American Robin     4
European Starling     42
Yellow-rumped Warbler     18
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Audubon's)     1
Wilson's Warbler     1
California Towhee     3
Song Sparrow     9
White-crowned Sparrow     16
Golden-crowned Sparrow     23
Dark-eyed Junco (Oregon)     6
Red-winged Blackbird (Bicolored)     4
Western Meadowlark     8
Brewer's Blackbird     12
Bullock's Oriole     2
House Finch     3
Lesser Goldfinch     2
American Goldfinch     1

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