Wordless Wednesday: Abbott’s Laggon (Point Reyes)
On the advice of Bruce, the trip chair of Marin Audubon, Sarah & I went to the Gallinas Ponds near San Rafael today, and had a nice walk, with a good variety of birds, including two new ones for us.
The Gallinas Ponds were much larger than I expected, and we were happy to have enough trail to spend a couple of hours walking around. Except for an American Pipit, it was mostly the usual suspects, but a whole lot of them. In particular, some American White Pelicans and Common Goldeneyes let us get much better looks at them than we had previously.
The list du jour was a pretty good and long one!
American Avocet
American Coot
American Crow
American Kestrel
* American Pipit
American White Pelican
American Wigeon
Black Phoebe
Black-crowned Night Heron
Black-necked Stilt
Bufflehead
Canada Goose
Clark’s or Western Grebe (not sure which)
Common Goldeneye
Common Raven
Dark-eyed Junco
Double-crested Cormorant
Eared Grebe
Gadwall
Gold-crowned Sparrow
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
* Horned Grebe
House Finch
Long-billed Curlew
Mallard
Northern Harrier
Northern Shoveler
Pied-billed Grebe
Red-winged Blackbird
Rock Pigeon
Ruddy Duck
Scaup
Snowy Egret
Song Sparrow
Turkey Vulture
Western Meadowlark
White-crowned Sparrow
White-tailed Kite
Yellow-rumped Warbler
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