We spent about 4 hours out and tallied 91 species:
Greater White-fronted Goose
Snow/Ross's goose
Cackling Goose
Canada Goose
Tundra Swan
Mallard
Gadwall
Green-winged Teal
American Wigeon
Northern Pintail
Northern Shoveler
Cinnamon Teal
Canvasback
Ring-necked Duck
Bufflehead
Common Goldeneye
Ruddy Duck
Pied-billed Grebe
Eared Grebe
Double-crested Cormorant
American White Pelican
Great Blue Heron
Snowy Egret
Great Egret
Black-crowned Night-Heron
Turkey Vulture
White-tailed Kite
Northern Harrier
Red-shouldered Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
American Kestrel
Merlin
Peregrine Falcon
Sora
Virginia Rail
American Coot
Sandhill Crane
Black-bellied Plover
Killdeer
Black-necked Stilt
Greater Yellowlegs
Long-billed Curlew
Least Sandpiper
Dunlin
Long-billed Dowitcher
Wilson's Snipe
Ring-billed Gull
California Gull
Herring Gull
Forster's Tern
Rock Pigeon
Mourning Dove
Anna's Hummingbird
Belted Kingfisher
Nuttall's Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Black Phoebe
Say's Phoebe
Western Scrub-Jay
American Crow
Horned Lark
Oak Titmouse
Bushtit
House Wren
Marsh Wren
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Wrentit
Western Bluebird
Hermit Thrush
American Robin
Northern Mockingbird
European Starling
American Pipit
Cedar Waxwing
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
Spotted Towhee
Savannah Sparrow
Lincoln's Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Fox Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow
Golden-crowned Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
Western Meadowlark
Red-winged Blackbird
Brewer's Blackbird
Purple Finch
House Finch
American Goldfinch
House Sparrow
As the day list winded down, I realized there were several species we missed that I might have expected. Things like White-breasted Nuthatch, Downy Woodpecker, Common Raven, Cattle Egret, Yellow-billed Magpie, Lesser Goldfinch, and Loggerhead Shrike.
Here are some pictures from the day. First up, a NORTHERN SHOVELER at Cosumnes:
GREEN-WINGED TEAL:
I really like this photo of a GOLDEN-CROWNED SPARROW, mainly for the debris up in the air from the kicking action:
I took a picture of a SONG SPARROW and didn't realize until making this blog that it was banded. I'll have to do some digging to figure out what's the story with this guy:
I don't see HERMIT THRUSHES every day. This one was at Cosumnes as well.
I had just finished complaining how I thought we were going to miss WRENTIT today. Soon after, we heard the little "pig grunts"coming from the nearby brush:
