Finney & Ramer Lake, Salton Sea Bird Trip

Southeast Salton Sea
Dec 28, 2000
0745-1700, Sunny, 45-70

Another fine trip to the Imperial Valley with Al & Helga Borgardt. We missed several common species, but picked up both Rough-legged and Red-shouldered Hawks.
106 species total

We started out today looking for Brewer's Sparrows at the BLM Hot Springs site east of Holtville. We didn't find any of those, but right in the area we did find White-crowned, Vesper, Savannah, and Lark Sparrows.

Black-necked Stilts

At Ramer Lake we found the two sleeping Lesser Nighthawks, some shorebirds, and other waders.

Over the wet fields we saw flocks of waders. East of Calipatria we found a soaring Rough-legged Hawk and a perched Red-shouldered Hawk.

Cattle Egrets & White-faced Ibis

Al & Helga

Dune's Sunset

At the small park next to the Ranger Station, we again scoped the mouth of the Alamo River and located a single Surf Scoter. At Obsidian Butte, good birds were a Western Gull and a small flock of Stilt Sandpipers .
We finished out the day with a trip to the Bubbling Mud Pots and a look at the resident Merlin across Davis Road.	Bubbling Mud Pots

Bubbling Mud Pots

#	Species Name
1	Western Grebe
2	Pied-Billed Grebe
3	Eared Grebe
4	Brown Pelican
5	White Pelican
6	Double-Crested Cormorant
7	Cattle Egret
8	Great Blue Heron
9	Great Egret
10	Snowy Egret
11	Black-Crowned Night Heron
12	Sandhill Crane
13	Red-Breasted Merganser
14	Northern Shoveler
15	Redhead
16	Green-Winged Teal
17	Ruddy Duck
18	Bufflehead
19	Lesser Scaup
20	Cinnamon Teal
21	Canvasback
22	Snow Goose
23	Ross' Goose
24	Northern Pintail
25	Canada Goose
26	American Wigeon
27	Greater Scaup
28	Surf Scoter
29	Common Gallinule
30	American Coot
31	Sora
32	American Avocet
33	Black-Necked Stilt
34	Black-Bellied Plover
35	Snowy Plover
36	Killdeer
37	Least Sandpiper
38	Lesser Yellowlegs
39	Willet
40	Western Sandpiper
41	Stilt Sandpiper
42	Marbled Godwit
43	Long-Billed Curlew
44	Greater Yellowlegs
45	Dunlin
46	Long-Billed Dowitcher
47	Ring-Billed Gull
48	Forster's Tern
49	Western Gull
50	Herring Gull
51	California Gull
52	Turkey Vulture
53	Northern Harrier


#	Species Name
54	Red-Shouldered Hawk
55	Osprey
56	Sharp-Shinned Hawk
57	Red-Tailed Hawk
58	Rough-Legged Hawk
59	Peregrine Falcon
60	American Kestrel
61	Merlin
62	Gambel's Quail
63	Rock Dove
64	Common Ground Dove
65	Mourning Dove
66	Greater Roadrunner
67	Burrowing Owl
68	Lesser Nighthawk
69	Belted Kingfisher
70	Ladder-Backed Woodpecker
71	Northern Flicker
72	Gila Woodpecker
73	Black Phoebe
74	Say's Phoebe
75	Vermillion Flycatcher
76	Rough-Winged Swallow
77	Tree Swallow
78	Verdin
79	Cactus Wren
80	Marsh Wren
81	Blue-Gray Gnatcatcher
82	Western Bluebird
83	Black-Tailed Gnatcatcher
84	American Robin
85	Ruby-Crowned Kinglet
86	Mountain Bluebird
87	Loggerhead Shrike
88	Northern Mockingbird
89	American Pipit
90	Phainopepla
91	European Starling
92	Yellow-Rumped Warbler
93	Brown-Headed Cowbird
94	Great-Tailed Grackle
95	Red-Winged Blackbird
96	Western Meadowlark
97	House Sparrow
98	House Finch
99	Song Sparrow
100	Vesper Sparrow
101	White-Crowned Sparrow
102	Savannah Sparrow
103	Lincoln's Sparrow
104	Dark-Eyed Junco
105	Abert's Towhee
106	Lark Sparrow