Birding Mud Lake – May

5/23/2022
Birding at Mud Lake with Melinda and Cheryl

Cinnamon teal with a speedy Cliff swallow
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Western grebe
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Clark’s grebe
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Great blue heron
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Red breasted merganser female
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Lesser scaup with female lesser scaup
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Redheads
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Blue winged teals
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A view with coots
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Muskrat
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Cat… when I first saw this patch of fluff I was certain it was a fox. Tricky kitty.
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Tree swallow
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Yellow headed blackbird
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Black crowned night heron
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Great horned owl
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Sandhill crane
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Canvasback
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Double crested cormorant
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Trumpeter swan
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Birds

  1. American avocets
  2. Brewer’s blackbirds
  3. Red winged blackbirds
  4. Yellow headed blackbirds
  5. Bufflehead
  6. Canvasbacks
  7. Gray catbird
  8. American coots
  9. Double crested cormorants
  10. Sandhill cranes
  11. American crows
  12. Eurasian collared doves
  13. Mourning doves
  14. Rock doves
  15. Ruddy ducks
  16. Snowy egrets
  17. Dusky flycatcher
  18. Gray flycatcher
  19. Willow flycatcher
  20. Gadwalls
  21. Canada geese
  22. American goldfinches
  23. Clark’s grebes
  24. Eared grebes
  25. Pied billed grebes
  26. Western grebes
  27. California gulls
  28. Franklin’s gulls
  29. Ring billed gulls
  30. Northern harrier
  31. Red tailed hawks
  32. Swainson’s hawks
  33. Great blue heron
  34. Black crowned night herons
  35. White faced ibises
  36. Killdeer
  37. Western kingbird
  38. Eastern kingbirds
  39. Black billed magpies
  40. Mallards
  41. Red breasted mergansers
  42. Osprey with fish
  43. Great horned owl
  44. Short eared owl
  45. American white pelicans
  46. Common ravens
  47. Redheads
  48. American robins
  49. Solitary sandpipers
  50. Spotted sandpipers
  51. Lesser scaups
  52. Northern shovelers
  53. Soras
  54. Chipping sparrows
  55. House sparrows
  56. European starlings
  57. Bank swallows
  58. Barn swallows
  59. Cliff swallows
  60. Tree swallows
  61. Trumpeter swans
  62. Blue winged teals
  63. Cinnamon teals
  64. Caspian terns
  65. Wilson’s warblers
  66. Yellow warblers
  67. Yellow rumped warblers
  68. Willets
  69. Marsh wrens
  70. Common yellowthroat
  71. House finches
  72. Pine siskins – at home

Mammals

  1. Yellow bellied marmot
  2. Muskrat
  3. Porcupine
  4. Moose
  5. Cottontail

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