Today we saw the usual mottled, blue winged teal and black bellied whistling ducks. One of the ducks spotted in cell # 4 was obviously different from the other ducks so after getting out the scope and examining it closer, Roy Book was able to ID it as a Fulvous Whistling Duck.
Here are some of the other birds seen today:
- Pied billed grebes
- Anhinga
- Black Terns
- Wilson’s Phalarope
- Black Necked Stilts
- Greater Yellow Legs
- Short billed dowitcher
- Western SP
- Least SP
- Solitary SP
- Stilt SP
- Pectoral SP
- Killdeer
- Semipalmated Plovers
- Kingfishers
- Bald Eagle
- Cara Cara
- Osprey
- Turkey Vulture
- Barn Swallows
- Common Ground Dove
- Sandhill cranes
- Wood storks
- Ibis – white, glossy
- Herons - GB, LB, Grn, tri-colored
- Juvenile black crowned night heron
- Snowy, cattle & Great Egret
- Common moorhen
- Coots
- Red Bellied Woodpecker
- Shrike
- Mockingbirds
- Fish Crow
- Boat tailed grackles
- Red winged blackbirds
- Otter crossing road with a fish in its mouth
Vicky Hamilton
SCAS Field Trip Coordinator
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