Updated 5/25/12
Today the Golden Gate Audubon birding class, “Romance is in the Air”, (which focuses on bird courtship, mating, nest-building, and raising young) went to Coyote Hills Regional Park. The Park is nearly 978 acres and includes a bird and butterfly nectar garden, wetlands and woods.
Today’s highlights included seeing two young Great Horned Owls with an Adult, Cinnamon Teal Northern Shoveler (see Sightings: Breeding Northern Shoveler) and Canada Goose with young, and Great-tailed Grackles mating. There were also some impressive Buckeye Trees in bloom and a number of butterflies and some large dragonflies. The flowers were mostly non-natives along the trails and even the Butterfly Garden had mainly flowers that were not from California.
To see the instructors bird list, which also includes the number of each species seen go to: http://www.wingbeats.org/classes/lists/12Romance.htm
To see my bird and butterfly list click read more
Coyote Hills Regional Park
May 19,2012
Birding Class with Bob Lewis
52 species
Canada Goose
Gadwall
American Wigeon
Mallard
Cinnamon Teal
Northern Shoveler
Ruddy Duck
Ring-necked Pheasant Heard only
Pied-billed Grebe
Double-crested Cormorant
American White Pelican
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Snowy Egret
Black-crowned Night-Heron
Turkey Vulture
White-tailed Kite
Northern Harrier
Cooper’s Hawk
Common Gallinule
American Coot
Killdeer
Black Oystercatcher
American Avocet
Bonaparte’s Gull
Western Gull
California Gull
Mourning Dove
Great Horned Owl
Anna’s Hummingbird
Nuttall’s Woodpecker
Black Phoebe
Western Scrub-Jay
Tree Swallow
Barn Swallow
Bushtit
Bewick’s Wren
House Wren
Marsh Wren
European Starling
Common Yellowthroat
Spotted Towhee
California Towhee
Song Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco heard only
Western Tanager
Red-winged Blackbird
Brewer’s Blackbird
Great-tailed Grackle
Brown-headed Cowbird
Bullock’s Oriole
House Finch
Also heard but not by me: Sora, Pacific Slope Flycatcher
Butterflies seen:
Swallowtail
Monarch
Cabbage White
Umber Skipper
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