Thursday, 15 August 2013

California - species list (part 7)

Below is a list of the 196 bird and the various mammal species seen, with dates and locations given, and with the 93 new birds for us in bold. I am still working on the butterfly photographs to confirm the ID of those not published within the blog.


21/7/2013

Sausalito
1.   Starling
2.   Western Gull (1)
3.   Brewers Blackbird
4.   American crow
5.   Black-crowned Night Heron
6.   Mallard
7.   Canada Goose
8.   Double-crested Cormorant
9.   Elegant Tern (2)
10. Caspian Tern

Farallon Islands boat
11. Heermann's Gull (3)
12. Western Grebe (4)
13. Brown Pelican
14. Pigeon Guillemot (5)
15. Guillemot (Common Murre)
16. Snowy Egret
17. Sooty Shearwater
18. Red-necked Phalarope
19. Rhinocerous Auklet (6)
20. Marbled Murrelet (7)
21. Brandt's Cormorant (8)
22. Palegic Cormorant (9)
23. Horned Puffin (10)
24. Cassin's Auklet (11)
25. Black-footed Albatross (12)
26. Pink-footed Shearwater (13)
27. Northern Gannet

plus
Californian Sealion
Northern Fur Seal
Pacific Harbour Seal
Harbour Porpoise
Hump-backed Whale

22/7/2013

Presidio
28. Black Phoebe (14)
29. Dark-eyed (Oregon) Junco
30. Anna's Hummingbird (15)
31. Chestnut-backed Chickadee (16)
32. Red-masked Parakeet (17)
33. American Robin
34. House Finch
35. House Sparrow
36. Bushtit (18)
37. Hooded Oriole (19)
38. Pygmy Nuthatch (20)
39. White-crowned Sparrow
40. Song Sparrow
41. Mourning Dove
42. American Goldfinch
43. Red-tailed Hawk
44. Lesser Goldfinch (21)
45. Raven
46. Hutton's Vireo (22)
47. Allen's Hummingbird (23)
48. Violet-green Swallow (24)
49. Cooper's Hawk
50. Black-chinned Hummingbird (25)

Crissy Marsh
51. Long-billed Curlew (26)
52. Willet
53. American Herring Gull
54. Barn Swallow

Alcatraz Island
55. Wandering Tattler (27)

23/7/2013

Pillar Point Harbour
55. Great Blue Heron
56. Short-billed Dowitcher
57. Western sandpiper

Pescadero Marsh
58. Sanderling
59. Black Oystercatcher (28)
60. Wrentit (29)
61. Harlequin Duck
62. Black Turnstone (30)
63. California Gull (31)
64. Rock Sandpiper (32)
65. Belted Kingfisher
66. Great Egret
67. Pied-billed Grebe
68. White-tailed Kite (33)
69. Brown Cowbird
70. Goosander
71. Common Yellow-throat
72. Wilson's warbler
73. Hairy Woodpecker
74. Pacific-slopped Flycatcher (34)
75. Northern Flicker
76. Ruddy Duck
77. Gadwall
78. Hudsonian Whimbrel
79. Turkey Vulture
80. Western Scrub-Jay (35)

plus
Black-tailed Deer


San Gregorio State Beach
81. Least Sandpiper
82. Cliff swallow
83. Northern Rough-winged Swallow

Gazos Creek
84. Olive-sided Flycatcher (36)
85. Orange Crowned Warbler
86. Purple Finch
87. Stellers Jay (37)
88. Band-tailed Pigeon (38)
89. Black-headed Grosbeak (39)
90. Townsend Warbler (40 - seen by D only, alas)

Monterey
91. Great Horned Owl

24/7/2013

Point Lobos
92. Bewick's Wren (41)
93. Spotted Sandpiper
94. Brown Creeper

plus
Sea Otter

Carmel State Beach
95. Surf Scoter
96. Killdeer

25/7/2013

Monterey Harbour
92. Tree Swallow
97. Black-necked (Horned) Grebe

Monterey Whale watch boat

Blue Whale
Risso Dolphin

Los Padres Dam
98. Oak Titmouse (42)
99. Acorn Woodpecker (43)
100. Nuttall's Woodpecker (44)

plus
Western Grey Squirrel
Fox Squirrel

Racoon

26/7/2013

Andrew Molera State Park
101. Swainson's Thrush
102. Brent Goose
103. Whitefronted Goose
104. Bufflehead
105. Lazuli Bunting (45)
106. Spotted Towhee (46)
107. California Quail (47)
108. American Kestrel

plus
California Ground Squirrel

27/7/2013

Access road to Pinnacles National Monument
109. Northern Mockingbird
110. Greater Raodrunner (48)
102. Lark Sparrow
103. Yellow-breasted Chat (49)
104. Western Bluebird (50)
105. Lawrence's Finch (51)

plus
Black-tailed Jack-rabbit

Pinnacles National Monument
106. Canyon Wren (52)
107. White-breasted Nutchtach
108. Golden Eagle
109. Californian Condor (53)
110. Phainopepla (54)
111. White-throated Swift (55)

plus
Meriam's Chipmunk

Upper Carmel Valley
112. Yellow-billed Magpie (56)

plus
Desert Cottontail
28/7/2013

Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park
113. Cassin's Vireo (57)

plus
Brush Rabbit

Pfeiffer Big Sur State Park
114. Downy Woodpecker
115. Wild Turkey
116. Pacific Wren (58)
117. American Dipper (59)

plus
Bobcat

Carmel State Beach
118. Greater Yellowlegs
119. Solitary Sandpiper
120. Snow Goose

29/7/2013

Los Barios Wildlife Area
121. American White Pelican
122. Dunlin
123. Ashy-throated Flycatcher (60)
124. Western Kingbird
125. Pintail
126. Ring-necked Duck
127. Long-billed Dowitcher
128. American Avocet
129. White-faced Ibis
130. Black-necked Stilt
131. Wilson's Phalarope
132. Semi-palmated Plover
133. Hen (Northern) Harrier
134. Loggerhead Shrike
135. Boat-tailed Grackle

plus
Coyote

St Luis National Wildlife Reserve
136. Western Meadowlark
137. Tricoloured Blackbird (61)
138. Blue Grosbeak (62)
139. Wood Duck
140. Red-winged Blackbird
141. Purple Martin
142. Yellow-headed Blackbird

30/7/2013

Yosemite National Park
143. Calloipe Hummingbird (63)
144. Pine Siskin (64)
145. Cassin's Finch (65)
146. Red-breasted Nuthatch
147. Yellow-rumped Warbler
148. Western Tanager (66)
149. McGillvray's Warbler (67)
150. Fox Sparrow (68)
151. Lincoln Sparrow
152. Mountain Chickadee (69)
153. Nashville Warbler
154. Black-throated Grey Warbler (70)
155. Hermit Warbler (71)
156. Chipping Sparrow
157. Red-napped Sapsucker (72)
158. Mountain Bluebird (73)
159. Pine Grosbeak (74)
160. Hammond's Flycatcher (75)
161. Townsend's Solitaire (76)

El Portal
162. Osprey

31/7/2013

Yosemite National Park
163. Black Swift (77)
164. Western Wood-pewee (78)
165. House Wren
166. Black-throated Blue Warbler

plus
Lodgepole Chipmunk
Golden-mantled Ground Squirrel

1/8/2013

Road to Bodie Historic State Park
167. Pinyon Jay (79)
168. Mountian Quail (80)

Bodie Historic State Park
169. Greater Sage Grouse (81)
170. Praire Falcon (82)
171. Swainson's Hawk
172. Sage Sparrow (83)
173. Sage Thrasher
174. Brewer's Sparrow (84)
175. Green-tailed Towhee (85)
176. Vesper Sparrow

plus
Belding's Ground Squirrel
Yellow-pine Chipmunk

Bridgeport
177. American Magpie (86)

Lee Vining
178. Rufous Hummingbird (87)

Mono Lake Tufa State Park
179. Knot
180. Grey Flycatcher (88)
181. Bullock's Oriole (89)
182. Savannah Sparrow
183. Say's Phoebe

Mono Lake County Park
184. Common Poorwill (90)

2/8/2013

June Lake
185. Red-breasted Woodpecker (91)
186. Warbling Vireo

Lee Vining
187. Dusky Flycatcher (92)

Yosemite National Park
188. Clarke's Nutcracker (93)

3/8/2013

Baylands Nature Preserve
189. Lesser Scaup
190. Marbled Godwit
191. Foster's Tern
192. Moorhen
193. Ring-billed Gull
194. Cinnamon Teal
195. Bonaparte's Gull
196. Grey Plover