Friday, April 6, 2007

Santa Ana NWR, 4/6/07

My target today at Santa Ana NWR was Mississippi Kite. After my luck with the Swallow-tailed Kite yesterday I thought I waould take advantage of my lucky streak. I was on the hawk tower before 8 AM and it didn't take long to find a Mississippi Kite perched on s distant snag. Half an hour later several were up and heading north.

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The Four Musketeers (Pat and Bob Dewenter and Sandy and Mark Turner) joined me just in time for some Franklin's Gulls.

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And then the Anhinga show started. Large migrating flocks like this are fairly common in the spring.

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Black-bellied Whistling-Duck 30
Mottled Duck 5
Blue-winged Teal 5
Northern Shoveler 15
Plain Chachalaca 15
Pied-billed Grebe 1
Neotropic Cormorant 8
Anhinga 400
Least Bittern 2
Great Blue Heron 1
Great Egret 8
Snowy Egret 15
Little Blue Heron 15
Tricolored Heron 1
White-faced Ibis 2
Black Vulture 1
Turkey Vulture 40
Osprey 1
Mississippi Kite 14
Sharp-shinned Hawk 2
Cooper's Hawk 1
Gray Hawk 1
Harris's Hawk 3
Red-shouldered Hawk 1
Broad-winged Hawk 30
Swainson's Hawk 4
Merlin 1
Sora 1
Common Moorhen 5
American Coot 25
American Golden-Plover 5
Killdeer 1
Black-necked Stilt 2
Long-billed Dowitcher 5
Franklin's Gull 70
White-winged Dove 6
Mourning Dove 15
Common Ground-Dove 1
Chimney Swift 8
Ringed Kingfisher 1
Belted Kingfisher 1
Green Kingfisher 1
Golden-fronted Woodpecker 12
Ladder-backed Woodpecker 8
Northern Beardless-Tyrannulet 4
Great Crested Flycatcher 1
Brown-crested Flycatcher 2
Couch's Kingbird 20
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher 23
Loggerhead Shrike 1
White-eyed Vireo 1
Green Jay 8
Tree Swallow 1
Cliff Swallow 10
Barn Swallow 10
Black-crested Titmouse 2
Carolina Wren 3
House Wren 3
Clay-colored Robin 1
Northern Mockingbird 5
Long-billed Thrasher 2
European Starling 1
Blue-winged Warbler 1
Black-throated Green Warbler 2
Black-and-white Warbler 1
Common Yellowthroat 10
Olive Sparrow 4
Lincoln's Sparrow 6
Northern Cardinal 1
Red-winged Blackbird 10
Great-tailed Grackle 15
Bronzed Cowbird 8
Brown-headed Cowbird 2
Altamira Oriole 1

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