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Probably the best sighting for James and I was a nice Bobcat not more than 15 feet away from us. No I don't have a picture... Pretty neat though! |
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Rural Skippers were found underfoot as we scanned the horizon of the Big Sur Range for the elusive California Condor... |
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SPECIES SEEN ~ 9/15/2003 ~ 60 seen ~ GREBES Pied-billed Grebe Red-necked Grebe SHEARWATERS AND PETRELS Sooty Shearwater CORMORANTS Pelagic Cormorant PELICANS Brown Pelican DUCKS, SWANS, GEESE Canada Goose Red-breasted Merganser HERONS, EGRETS AND BITTERNS Snowy Egret Great Egret Black-crowned Night-Heron NEW WORLD VULTURES Turkey Vulture HAWKS, EAGLES AND KITES White-tailed Kite Sharp-shinned Hawk Red-shouldered Hawk Red-tailed Hawk FALCONS AND CARACARAS American Kestrel Merlin Peregrine Falcon GULLS AND TERNS Heermann's Gull Western Gull AUKS, ALCIDS Common Murre PIGEONS AND DOVES Rock Dove Band-tailed Pigeon Mourning Dove SWIFTS Vaux's Swift HUMMINGBIRDS Anna's Hummingbird KINGFISHERS Belted Kingfisher WOODPECKERS Acorn Woodpecker Downy Woodpecker Hairy Woodpecker Northern Flicker TYRANT FLYCATCHERS Black Phoebe CROWS AND JAYS Steller's Jay Western Scrub-Jay American Crow VIREOS AND ALLIES Warbling Vireo WAXWINGS AND SILKY-FLYCATCHERS Cedar Waxwing THRUSHES American Robin MOCKINGBIRDS AND THRASHERS Northern Mockingbird STARLINGS European Starling CREEPERS Brown Creeper WRENS Bewick's Wren SWALLOWS Violet-green Swallow KINGLETS Ruby-crowned Kinglet OLD WORLD WARBLERS Wrentit CHICKADEES, TITS Chestnut-backed Chickadee OLD WORLD SPARROWS House Sparrow SISKINS, CROSSBILLS AND ALLIES American Goldfinch House Finch NEW WORLD WARBLERS Yellow Warbler Townsend's Warbler Common Yellowthroat Wilson's Warbler BUNTINGS, SPARROWS, TANAGERS, ALLIES Song Sparrow White-crowned Sparrow Dark-eyed Junco Spotted Towhee California Towhee Black-headed Grosbeak BLACKBIRDS, GRACKLES, ORIOLES Brewer's Blackbird ////---- STATISTICS ----///// Species seen - 60
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.jpg) A Mule Deer watched us as we moved down the trail |
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