Greetings Everyone,
Here's the list of species found during previous ABC weekends that we haven't found yet this time.
# Brant
# Wood Duck
# Canvasback
# Greater Scaup
# Black Scoter
# Common Goldeneye
# Hooded Merganser
# Gambel's Quail
# Chukar
# Horned Grebe
# Common Ground-Dove
# White-winged Dove
# Ridgway's Rail
# Sandhill Crane
# Ruddy Turnstone
# Red Knot
# Ruff
# Stilt Sandpiper
# Baird's Sandpiper
# Pectoral Sandpiper
# Semipalmated Sandpiper
# Red Phalarope
# Pomarine Jaeger
# Parasitic Jaeger
# Scripps's Murrelet
# Cassin's Auklet
# Rhinoceros Auklet
# Sabine's Gull
# Laughing Gull
# Franklin's Gull
# Short-billed Gull
# Iceland Gull (Thayer's Gull)
# Glaucous Gull
# Black Tern
# Common Tern
# Yellow-billed Loon
# Black-footed Albatross
# Leach's Storm-Petrel
# Northern Fulmar
# Pink-footed Shearwater
# Sooty Shearwater
# American Bittern
# Least Bittern
# California Condor
# Golden Eagle
# Zone-tailed Hawk
# Ferruginous Hawk
# Flammulated Owl
# Northern Pygmy-Owl
# Burrowing Owl
# Spotted Owl
# Long-eared Owl
# Northern Saw-whet Owl
# Williamson's Sapsucker
# Red-naped Sapsucker
# Crested Caracara
# Prairie Falcon
# Red-masked Parakeet
# Least Flycatcher
# Dusky-capped Flycatcher
# Thick-billed Kingbird
# Plumbeous Vireo
# Clark's Nutcracker
# Purple Martin
# LeConte's Thrasher
# Mountain Bluebird
# Varied Thrush
# Red-throated Pipit
# Evening Grosbeak
# Red Crossbill
# Pine Siskin
# Grasshopper Sparrow
# Clay-colored Sparrow
# Field Sparrow
# Brewer's Sparrow
# Harris's Sparrow
# Vesper Sparrow
# Orchard Oriole
# Baltimore Oriole
# Northern Waterthrush
# Black-and-white Warbler
# Tennessee Warbler
# Hooded Warbler
# American Redstart
# Northern Parula
# Chestnut-sided Warbler
# Red-faced Warbler
# Painted Redstart
# Summer Tanager
# Indigo Bunting
There are still a number of species missing that we usually find such as Wood Duck, LeConte's thrasher, Clark's Nutcracker, Pine Siskin, Red Crossbill, Golden Eagle, Summer Tanager, Hooded Merganser, Brant, Horned Grebe, ruddy turnstone, and some owls.
Regarding the owls, there have been multiple searches in the Mt. Wilson area this weekend that have produced only western screech and great horned. Access to many higher locations is really limited due to the closure of the Angeles Crest Highway between Mt. Wilson Road and Big Pines.
We usually get Chukar and Gambel's Quail from San Clemente Island. Is anyone out there this weekend
Regarding Red Crossbill, there have been regular reports of these at Apollo Park and Pearblossom Park recently. Is anyone able to swing by to check
There were numerous Hooded Mergansers around within the last week. Has anybody seen one this weekend
Thank you,
Lance
Lance Benner Altadena