5/23/2022
Birding at Mud Lake with Melinda and Cheryl
Cinnamon teal with a speedy Cliff swallow
Lesser scaup with female lesser scaup
Cat… when I first saw this patch of fluff I was certain it was a fox. Tricky kitty.
Birds
- American avocets
- Brewer’s blackbirds
- Red winged blackbirds
- Yellow headed blackbirds
- Bufflehead
- Canvasbacks
- Gray catbird
- American coots
- Double crested cormorants
- Sandhill cranes
- American crows
- Eurasian collared doves
- Mourning doves
- Rock doves
- Ruddy ducks
- Snowy egrets
- Dusky flycatcher
- Gray flycatcher
- Willow flycatcher
- Gadwalls
- Canada geese
- American goldfinches
- Clark’s grebes
- Eared grebes
- Pied billed grebes
- Western grebes
- California gulls
- Franklin’s gulls
- Ring billed gulls
- Northern harrier
- Red tailed hawks
- Swainson’s hawks
- Great blue heron
- Black crowned night herons
- White faced ibises
- Killdeer
- Western kingbird
- Eastern kingbirds
- Black billed magpies
- Mallards
- Red breasted mergansers
- Osprey with fish
- Great horned owl
- Short eared owl
- American white pelicans
- Common ravens
- Redheads
- American robins
- Solitary sandpipers
- Spotted sandpipers
- Lesser scaups
- Northern shovelers
- Soras
- Chipping sparrows
- House sparrows
- European starlings
- Bank swallows
- Barn swallows
- Cliff swallows
- Tree swallows
- Trumpeter swans
- Blue winged teals
- Cinnamon teals
- Caspian terns
- Wilson’s warblers
- Yellow warblers
- Yellow rumped warblers
- Willets
- Marsh wrens
- Common yellowthroat
- House finches
- Pine siskins – at home
Mammals
- Yellow bellied marmot
- Muskrat
- Porcupine
- Moose
- Cottontail