Natural History Wanderings

Updated  2/8/11

The Bay Area Birding class I am taking spent yesterday at Point Reyes and did a mini-blitz.  Below is what I saw by location.  You can also see the official class list of everything seen by the class at Pt. Reyes today at: http://www.wingbeats.org/classes/lists/11winter.htm It is still early for wildflowers as all I saw today were Milkmaids, Strawberries and alien mustard and broom.   My only good photo of the day was the  photo of the coast below as it was difficult to get close to the birds.  Bob Stokstad, one of the students of the class and a better bird photographer than me, did a nice gallery of photos from the day’s trip as well as some of the other classes at http://www.jstokstad.com/Birding_Pt_Reyes/

Five Brooks

Point Reyes Beach North of Lighthouse by Sandy Steinman

Red-winged Blackbird
Brewers Blackbird
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle race)
Stellar Jay
American Wigeon
Pied-billed Grebe
Turkey Vulture
Red-shouldered Hawk
Varied Thrush
Hutton’s Vireo
American Coot
Red-tailed Hawk

Visitors Center and Earthquake Trail

Acorn Woodpecker
California Quail
Brewers Blackbird
Red-winged Blackbird
Dark-eyed Junco
American Crow
Starling
Scrub Jay
Song Sparrow
Golden-crowned Sparrow
Turkey Vulture
Anna’s Hummingbird
Wrentit
Red-shouldered Hawk
American Robin
American Goldfinch
Hutton’s Vireo
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Tree Swallow
Red-tailed Hawk
Western Bluebird

Butterfly: Red Admiral

Inverness Store/Tomales Bay

Rudy Duck
Canvasback Duck
Greater Scaup
American Wigeon
Clark’s Grebe
Bufflehead
Snowy Egret
Oyster Farm
Black Turnstones
Glaucous-winged Gull
Western Gull
Bufflehead
Great Egret
Marbled Godwit
Willet
Green-winged Teal
Black-bellied Plover
Double-crested Cormorant

Drakes Bay Beach

Surf Scoter
Red-necked Grebe
Western Gull
Glaucous-winged Gull

Shuttle Bus to Chimney Rock

Canada Goose
Crows or Ravens

Chimney Rock Elephant Seal Trail

Surf Scoter
Bufflehead
Western Gull
Pacific Loon
Eared Grebe
Red-breasted Merganser
Red-throated Loon
Horned Grebe
Raven
Glaucous-winged Gull

Flowers: Milkmaids and Strawberries

Chimney Rock Parking lot to Lifeboat House

Western bluebird
Greate Horned Owl
Turkey Vulture
Black Phoebe
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Red-necked Grebe
Brant’s Cormorant
Surf Scoter
Eared Grebe
Pacific Loon
Horned Grebe