Little Big Day outing #6 – 4:11 p.m., Carpinteria Salt Marsh…
Little Big Day outing #6 – 4:11 p.m., Carpinteria Salt Marsh Nature Park
Duration: 47 minutes
Species: 40 (5 new)
Final total: 81
9 Mallard
7 Blue-winged Teal
22 Green-winged Teal
8 Bufflehead
4 Pied-billed Grebe
1 Western Grebe
1 Great Blue Heron
1 Snowy Egret
8 American Coot
1 Black-bellied Plover
2 Greater Yellowlegs
2 Willet
1 Marbled Godwit
4 Dunlin
4 Least Sandpiper
16 Long-billed Dowitcher
1 Ring-billed Gull
3 Western Gull
2 Anna’s Hummingbird
1 Belted Kingfisher
1 American Crow
2 Marsh Wren
2 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
1 Ruby-crowned Kinglet
1 Orange-crowned Warbler
3 Yellow-rumped Warbler
2 White-crowned Sparrow
1 Golden-crowned Sparrow
1 Song Sparrow
1 Lincoln’s Sparrow
4 House Finch
Final thoughts:
I ended up spending more time birding than I’d planned, which probably should have been predictable; once I start it’s hard to tear myself away. 81 species makes me happy, though there were a bunch that I missed that I should have had:
- Western Bluebird
- Killdeer
- Whimbrel
- Black Turnstone
- California Quail
- Mourning Dove
- Townsend’s Warbler
- Hairy Woodpecker
- White-tailed Kite
- Brown-headed Cowbird
I’ll get them next time.
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