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Fortuna
Pond
28 Apr 00
85 ° & sunny, 0730-09306
Double-crested Cormorants
14 Coots
1 Hermit Thrush
4 Nashville Warblers
1 Yellow-rumped Warbler
10 Townsend's Warblers
20 Wilson's Warblers
2 Yellow-breasted Chats
3 Yellow Warblers
2 Common Yellowthroats
1 Lucy's Warbler
4 Orange-crowned Warblers
10 Warbling Vireos
1 Hermit Warbler
1 Black-headed Grosbeak
all the
common swallows
all the common doves
Farmfields & Tamarisks between Fortuna Pond and the intersection of Hwy 95 & Ave 7E:
1 Ring-necked Pheasant (still doing fine in the valley)
3 Wilson's Phalaropes
7 Whimbrels
6 Willets
2 Long-billed Dowitchers
100+ Least Sandpipers
50+ Western Sandpipers
1 Olive-sided Flycatcher
100+ Lazuli Buntings
nesting red-tailed hawk
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Snowy Egret
What a nice surprise to find a flooded field with shorebirds so close to
Yuma! Normally, you have to drive out to the Salton Sea for this
kind of variety.
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