Trip report for the Sepulveda Basin Wildlife Area Bird Walk

on Sunday, December 15, 2013.  


Number of participants: 19 + 2 leaders
Start time: 8:05am
Finish time: 10:15am
Distance covered: 1 mile
Weather:  sunny and breezy

 

 

Bird species encountered: 51

 

Canada Goose - 12   all fly-overs
American Wigeon - 2
Mallard - 6
Mallard (Domestic type) - 3
Pied-billed Grebe - 4
Double-crested Cormorant - 18
American White Pelican - 35
Great Blue Heron - 2
Great Egret - 3
Snowy Egret - 2
Green Heron - 1
Black-crowned Night-Heron - 5
Turkey Vulture - 8
Osprey - 2
Cooper's Hawk - 1
Red-shouldered Hawk - 1
Red-tailed Hawk - 2
American Coot - 12
Western Gull - 2
Rock Pigeon (Feral) - 1
Mourning Dove - 3
Anna's Hummingbird - 12
Allen's Hummingbird - 4     one male performing mating display
Belted Kingfisher - 2     both females
Nuttall's Woodpecker - 2
Downy Woodpecker - 1
Northern Flicker (Red-shafted) - 3
American Kestrel - 1     female
Yellow-chevroned Parakeet (Feral) - 12
Black Phoebe - 6
Say's Phoebe - 2
Cassin's Kingbird - 2
American Crow - 6
Common Raven - 5
Marsh Wren - 1
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher  - 2
Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 4
Western Bluebird - 3
American Pipit - 5
Cedar Waxwing - 7
Orange-crowned Warbler - 1
Common Yellowthroat - 2
Yellow-rumped Warbler - 12
Spotted Towhee - 1
California Towhee - 6
Lark Sparrow - 4
Savannah Sparrow - 1
Song Sparrow - 3
White-crowned Sparrow - 8
House Finch - 24
Lesser Goldfinch - 28
American Goldfinch - 60

 

Mammals:

Eastern Fox Squirrel

Brush Rabbit

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