7.1 - 7.5 Mono
and Inyo Counties
BROWN PELICAN one in with several
American White Pelicans at Owens Lake (Jul 03)
WHITE-FACED IBIS skulking at the south end of Owens Lake at Owens
Lake (Jul 03)
SWAINSON'S HAWK CO-NY at Tinemehana Reservoir (Jul 04)
PLUMBEOUS VIREO heard only at Frazier Canyon and Wild Rose Canyon
(Jul 03)
AMERICAN REDSTART first spring male singing in the willows at
DeChambeau Ponds (Jul 02)
BLACK-THROATED SPARROW very unusual in the Mono Basin, particularly
at this altitude at Frazier Canyon (Jul 03)
Brown Pelican with American White Pelicans, Owens Lake
©2005, Mark W. Eaton
Birds:
Gadwall (15)
American Wigeon (15)
Mallard (15)
Cinnamon Teal (15)
Northern Pintail (15)
Green-winged Teal (8)
Redhead (15)
Greater Scaup (15)
Bufflehead (15)
Ruddy Duck (15)
Chukar (21)
Greater Sage-Grouse (25)
California Quail (16)
Pied-billed Grebe (15)
Eared Grebe (15)
Clark's Grebe (15)
American White Pelican (15, 20)
Brown Pelican (15)
Great Blue Heron (20)
Black-crowned Night-Heron (8)
White-faced Ibis (15)
Osprey (12)
Northern Harrier (20)
Swainson's Hawk (20)
Red-tailed Hawk (8, 16)
American Kestrel (7, 23)
Prairie Falcon (14, 18)
Virginia Rail (7)
American Coot (9, 15)
Killdeer (7)
Black-necked Stilt (15)
American Avocet (7)
Marbled Godwit (15)
Wilson's Phalarope (7)
Ring-billed Gull (15)
California Gull (5, 7, 15, 15)
Caspian Tern (15)
Forster's Tern (15)
Mourning Dove (8, 16, 21)
Greater Roadrunner (20)
Great Horned Owl (16)
Common Nighthawk (8)
Black-chinned Hummingbird (24)
Calliope Hummingbird (14)
Red-breasted Sapsucker (2, 7, 8)
Hairy Woodpecker (7, 10, 29)
White-headed Woodpecker (30)
Olive-sided Flycatcher (29)
Western Wood-Pewee (8, 11, 14, 28)
Dusky Flycatcher (2)
Black Phoebe (16)
Say's Phoebe (19)
Western Kingbird (1, 7, 20)
Loggerhead Shrike (12)
Plumbeous Vireo (13, 14)
Cassin's Vireo (11)
Warbling Vireo (8, 11, 14, 17, 24)
Steller's Jay (6, 24)
Pinyon Jay (12)
Clark's Nutcracker (8)
Black-billed Magpie (7, 18)
Common Raven (2, 10)
Horned Lark (15, 23)
Tree Swallow (8)
Violet-green Swallow (7, 10, 12)
Northern Rough-winged Swallow (20)
Bushtit (13)
White-breasted Nuthatch (6, 10)
Rock Wren (16)
Bewick's Wren (16)
House Wren (7, 8, 16, 17)
Marsh Wren (9)
Ruby-crowned Kinglet (28)
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher (13)
Mountain Bluebird (10, 23)
Townsend's Solitaire (26)
Hermit Thrush (5, 8, 11)
American Robin (2, 8, 24)
Sage Thrasher (12, 13, 15, 23, 24)
American Pipit (15)
Orange-crowned Warbler (7)
Yellow Warbler (7, 8, 16, 17, 24)
Yellow-rumped Warbler (4, 14, 26, 28)
Black-throated Gray Warbler (22)
American Redstart (9)
MacGillivray's Warbler (8, 24, 26)
Wilson's Warbler (5)
Western Tanager (8, 13, 22, 24)
Green-tailed Towhee (8)
California Towhee (31)
Chipping Sparrow (10, 22)
Brewer's Sparrow (8, 12, 13, 15, 22)
Vesper Sparrow (23, 24)
Black-throated Sparrow (13, 20, 24)
Sage Sparrow (8, 12)
Savannah Sparrow (9)
Fox Sparrow (8, 14, 26, 29)
Song Sparrow (31)
Lincoln's Sparrow (2)
White-crowned Sparrow (5, 27)
Dark-eyed Junco (2, 11, 26)
Black-headed Grosbeak (7)
Lazuli Bunting (8, 24)
Red-winged Blackbird (7, 17)
Western Meadowlark (7)
Yellow-headed Blackbird (9, 15)
Brewer's Blackbird (15, 17)
Brown-headed Cowbird (13, 15)
Bullock's Oriole (7)
Cassin's Finch (3, 4, 8, 10, 23, 27)
House Finch (21)
Pine Siskin (28)
Lesser Goldfinch (14, 17, 31)
American Goldfinch (31)
Bugs:
American Tiger Swallowtail (8)
Pale Swallowtail (8)
Eight-spotted Skimmer (9)
Pond Meadowhawk (9)
Morning Cloak (11)
White-lined Sphinx Hummingbird Moth (11)
Ackmon Blue (?) (24)
Fritillary sp. (24)
Lorquin's Admiral (24)
Locations:
1) Sierra Nevada Foothills (Jul 01)
2) Chevron Meadow (Jul 01)
3) White Wolf (Jul 01)
4) Gibbs-Dana Overlook (Jul 01)
5) Ellery Lake (Jul 01)
6) Lee Vining (Jul 02)
7) Mono County Park (Jul 02)
8) Lundy Canyon (Jul 02)
9) DeChambeau Ponds (Jul 02)
10) Jeffrey Pines off of Highway 120 east of Highway 395 (Jul
02)
11) Yost Creek (Jul 02)
12) South Tufa (Jul 03)
13) Frazier Canyon (Jul 03)
14) Wild Rose Canyon (Jul 03)
15) Owens Lake (Jul 03)
16) Birchim Canyon (Jul 03)
17) Aspendell (Jul 03)
18) Bishop Sewer Ponds (Jul 03)
19) Bishop Airport (Jul 03)
20) Tinemehana Reservoir (Jul 04)
21) Turnout near Westgaard Pass (Jul 04)
22) Turnoff to White Mountains (Jul 04)
23) White Mountain Road (Jul 04)
24) Wyman Canyon (Jul 04)
25) Highway 395 North of Green Church (Jul 05)
26) Highway 120 - Climb to Tioga Pass (Jul 05)
27) Tioga Lake (Jul 05)
28) Tuolomne Meadows Campground (Jul 05)
29) Pond across from White Wolf (Jul 05)
30) Highway 120 in Yosemite (Jul 05)
31) Oakdale County Park (Jul 05)
7.9 RE: [SFBirds] Virginia/Lucy's
This morning Alan, Adam, Michelle
and I had Alan's bird from yesterday and
unfortunately determined it to be a COMMON YELLOWTHROAT. The
bird was heard to call often in response to pishing and recordings
of a known species
individual.
7.11 Re: [SFBirds] RE: Presidio Bluebirds
Predation of bluebirds by House Sparrows
is well-known; this is why the
opening size of nest boxes is so critical. In the absence of
active human
disturbance, I think it's more likely that this was a "natural"
failure.
http://nabluebirdsociety.org/faq.htm
7.26 Re: [SFBirds] Little Blue Heron cont'd
Dan Singer and I were there from about
12:00 to 1:00 and did not see it. We
did see an interesting juvenile Snowy Egret with a two-toned
yellow/black
bill and yellowish green legs, though.
Can someone write a description of the Little Blue Heron they saw?
7.31 [SFBirds] Cliff House sightings
I was out at the Cliff House late
this afternoon. The fog lifted just in
time to make lighting poor with most birds at best silhouettes.
Best bird
was a RED-NECKED PHALAROPE at Sutro Baths that left as soon as
the tourists
walked on the ramparts. Also, there was a female-type BLACK SCOTER
near the
North Pyramid. Fisherman's Rock had a pathetic-looking GLACUOUS-WINGED
GULL with virtually no primaries left. Also, there were 3-4 Sterna
terns
offshore in the glare that I'll leave unidentified. Finally,
I too had a
mystery bird or two; a cormorant-sized bird with completely pale
gray
upperwings, tern-like flight, flying just above the breakers
and flying
faster than the cormorants.
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