Sal del Rey, 3/13/07

Windy, dark and drizzly at Sal del Rey this morning. Pretty much the same bunch of birds as have been there all winter. The Wilson's Phalaropes are starting to color up. Five Wild Turkey at 400 yards were a nice county year bird. Seventeen Snowy Plovers was the same number as last time.



This spring fed pond near the shore of hyper-saline Sal del Rey often harbers a few passerines. Today there were Savannah and Swamp Sparrows and Black-and-white and Yellow-rumped Warblers and a Common Yellowthroat.



Northern Shoveler 23
Wild Turkey 5
Northern Bobwhite 5
Eared Grebe 650
Turkey Vulture 3
Northern Harrier 2
Cooper's Hawk 2
Harris's Hawk 1
White-tailed Hawk 1
Red-tailed Hawk 1
Crested Caracara 2
Merlin 1
Snowy Plover 17
Killdeer 2
Greater Yellowlegs 1
Lesser Yellowlegs 210
Western Sandpiper 1
Least Sandpiper 80
Stilt Sandpiper 5
Wilson's Phalarope 120
Laughing Gull 4
Mourning Dove 25
Common Ground-Dove 1
White-tipped Dove 1
Golden-fronted Woodpecker 3
Ladder-backed Woodpecker 1
Great Kiskadee 3
Purple Martin 1
Northern Rough-winged Swallow 2
Black-crested Titmouse 1
Verdin 3
Cactus Wren 4
Bewick's Wren 4
House Wren 3
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 1
Northern Mockingbird 2
Long-billed Thrasher 1
Orange-crowned Warbler 1
Yellow-rumped Warbler 3
Black-and-white Warbler 1
Common Yellowthroat 1
Olive Sparrow 2
Cassin's Sparrow 2
Lark Sparrow 20
Savannah Sparrow 2
Lincoln's Sparrow 8
Swamp Sparrow 1
Northern Cardinal 2
Pyrrhuloxia 1
Red-winged Blackbird 700
Western Meadowlark 20
Great-tailed Grackle 3