Orange
County's Sea & Sage Audubon Society Salton Sea Summer field
Trip
Jul
20-21,
2002
Guide - Vic
Leipzig with Nancy Kenyon coordinating ( Bob Miller tagging along on
Sat.)
An overnight trip
visiting Wister Waterfowl Area, Davis Road, SBSS NWR, Cattle Call Park,
residential Brawley, Fites and Carter Roads, the New River Wetlands
Imperial site and many points along the way!
95
species (list follows at end
of page)
Click on
thumbnail pictures for full-sized shots.
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Western
Sandpipers
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Long-billed Dowitcher
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Newly arrived Western Sandpipers and Long-billed Dowitchers were
numerous. This lone (and rare to the area!) Wandering Tattler was
difficult to see in the distance and the heat. Dragon Flies and
Damselflies were abundant.
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Wandering Tattler
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Spot-winged
Glider Dragonfly
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Western Pondhawk Dragonfly
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Cliff
Swallow
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Tree Swallow
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A huge flock
of migrating Cliff and Tree Swallows with many juveniles and a few
Bank Swallows was an
interesting study. These Desert Forktails are very similar to the
Rambur's Forktail Damselflies that are numerous at the New River
Wetlands Project sites.
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Swallows on Alamo River at
Salton Sea
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Desert Forktail Damselflies in wheel |
Great Egret
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The Barn Owl Condo on Walker road gave us an obscured but
interesting look at one of it's residents. This huge spider was in
the men's room at the S. B. Salton Sea NWR. We liberated it back
to the wild. Can anyone tell us what it is?
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Barn Owl in condo |
"Eight-legged Freak"
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