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Sunday, 29 March 2009 @ Coyote Hills Regional Park, Fremont, California:
Northern Harrier
Trail
Red-tailed Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk coughing up a pellet
Snowy Egret
Pied-billed Grebe
Gadwall
Location: Coyote Hills Regional Park Observation date: 3/29/09 Number of species: 19 + Gadwall - Anas strepera 2 American Wigeon - Anas americana 2 Mallard - Anas platyrhynchos 10 + Cinnamon Teal - Anas cyanoptera 2 Northern Shoveler - Anas clypeata 6 Pied-billed Grebe - Podilymbus podiceps 1 + American White Pelican - Pelecanus erythrorhynchos 4 Double-crested Cormorant - Phalacrocorax auritus 3 Great Egret - Ardea alba 1 Snowy Egret - Egretta thula 1 Black-crowned Night-Heron - Nycticorax nycticorax 1 Turkey Vulture - Cathartes aura 5 Northern Harrier - Circus cyaneus 3 Red-tailed Hawk - Buteo jamaicensis 1 American Coot - Fulica americana 12 Western Gull - Larus occidentalis 5 American Crow - Corvus brachyrhynchos 10 + Tree Swallow - Tachycineta bicolor 25 Barn Swallow - Hirundo rustica 3 + = year bird (78 to date) This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org)
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The photos of the Red-tail are especially nice! They are beautiful birds!
Thanks – this one was very cooperative – those photos aren’t cropped at all! It was fun watching it cough up a pellet too. It was only a year or so ago that I learned that nearly all birds cough up pellets, not only Owls, which of course are well-known for theirs.
So, is the Northern Herrier hairier than the Southern Herrier, or is it the other way around?
As you can see, I don’t know much about Herriers, but just wanted to tell you how much your banner reminds me of the place that I used to call my own — Point Lobos… Always a treat to see it when I stop by your blog…
There is not, AFAIK, any such bird as a Southern Harrier. Certainly not in the US! Go figure….
Glad you like the banner. I am extremely fond of Point Lobos!
Adam, am I seeing things? It looks as though that RT hawk has a band on its right leg. Anywhoo, Coyote Hills is another spot I would love to visit. I’ve heard/read about this place — and every time I do, the desire is greater to get there. I’m sure I won’t be disappointed. Thanks for sharing your outing.
Yes, it was banded. It’s not very obvious in these photos – good eye picking it out!
It’s a nice park, and you should see some birds you may not get as often elsewhere (Tree Swallows are a specialty, as they have a bunch of nest boxes for them, and I’ve often seen Common Moorhens there as well as Cinnamon Teal, and Northern Harriers often make low fly-bys)
Very nice Adam… I went hiking at Coyote Hills once… I felt all turned around. It seemed so much like the hills I was more familiar with, but the bay was on the wrong side 😉
Heh, well I still get all turned around when I’m north of SF, since I spent the first 32 years of my life with SF to my north, I always assume it’s to my north no matter where I am 🙂
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