Natural History Wanderings

I was back on the Bay Trail today heading north from Pt. Isabel.  We went out a little over a mile and back just after high tide. Today I had the bonus of birding with naturalist Bob Gibbons of Natural History Travel  who has led a number of the European nature trips I have gone on. We identified 37 species, which I think is the most I have had on a single day on this trail. Of note was the number of Clark’s Grebes seen; at one point we have five together. Also had five killdeer fly in together.

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Pt. Isabel Regional Shoreline, Contra Costa, US-CA –  2.0 mile(s)

Oct 12, 2012 11:00 AM – 2:30 PM

37 species

Canada Goose

American Wigeon

Mallard

Northern Shoveler

Northern Pintail

Green-winged Teal

Western Grebe

Clark’s Grebe

Double-crested Cormorant

Brown Pelican

Great Egret

Snowy Egret

Turkey Vulture

American Coot

Black-bellied Plover

Killdeer

American Avocet

Spotted Sandpiper

Greater Yellowlegs

Willet

Long-billed Curlew

Marbled Godwit

Black Turnstone

Least Sandpiper

Ring-billed Gull

Western Gull

Forster’s Tern

Rock Pigeon

Anna’s Hummingbird

Peregrine Falcon

Black Phoebe

American Crow

Northern Mockingbird

California Towhee

Song Sparrow

White-crowned Sparrow

Red-winged Blackbird