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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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