Natural History Wanderings

Rock Sandpiper

Today I went birding at Heron’s Head Park in San Francisco with several people from my Masterbirders’ program and friends. The highlight of the day was seeing a Rock Sandpiper, which is a new life bird for me. We identified 55 species. Our goal had been to get more than 53 species as a friend had seen 53 species yesterday.

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Herons Head Park, San Francisco, California, US
Jan 11, 2020 8:44 AM – 11:52 AM
Protocol: Traveling
1.555 mile(s)
55 species (+1 other taxa)

Canada Goose  3
Northern Shoveler  2
American Wigeon  15
Mallard  4
Greater Scaup  5
Lesser Scaup  1
Bufflehead  5
Common Goldeneye  1
Ruddy Duck  52
Pied-billed Grebe  1
Horned Grebe  1
Horned/Eared Grebe  1
Western Grebe  1
Clark’s Grebe  3
Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon)  14
Anna’s Hummingbird  2
American Coot  4
Black-necked Stilt  6
American Avocet  6
Black Oystercatcher  5
Killdeer  1
Whimbrel  3
Long-billed Curlew  1
Black Turnstone  1
Rock Sandpiper  1     Continuing bird
Least Sandpiper  54
Greater Yellowlegs  2
Willet  26
Mew Gull  26
Western Gull  71
Herring Gull  1
Glaucous-winged Gull  1
Forster’s Tern  3
Common Loon  1
Double-crested Cormorant  3
Great Blue Heron  1
Snowy Egret  1
Turkey Vulture  4
Northern Harrier  1
Red-tailed Hawk  1
Black Phoebe  3
Say’s Phoebe  1
American Crow  4
Common Raven  5
Bushtit  8
European Starling  8
Northern Mockingbird  1
House Finch  1
Lesser Goldfinch  1
White-crowned Sparrow  18
Golden-crowned Sparrow  5
Savannah Sparrow  4
Song Sparrow  1
California Towhee  1
Western Meadowlark  3
Yellow-rumped Warbler  1

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S63284652

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