Since we didn’t have to be at the airport until noon, we decided to check out the Bolsa Chica State Ecological Reserve along the way. We heard and saw several “Belding’s” Savannah Sparrows from the boardwalk. Scoping the area produced Double-crested Cormorant, Great Blue Heron, Snowy Egret, Gadwall, an immature Bald Eagle, Black-bellied, Semipalmated, and Snowy Plovers, Killdeer, Black-necked Stilts (some on nests and some watching their fledged young), Willet, Western Sandpiper, Western Gull, Elegant and Forster’s Terns, Black Skimmer, Cliff Swallow, Northern Mockingbird, and, of course, Brewer’s Blackbird.
We drove the rest of the way to LAX and returned the rental car with an additional 1513 miles on it. All in all, it was a pretty good trip. Of the 152 species seen, 10 were ‘lifers’ for me, and 4 were new ones for Babe.
Trip Itinerary
Day 1) Sunday, May 27th, 2001 (Los Angeles to Ventura)
Upper Newport Bay;
Shipley Nature Center;
Carr Park (Orange County);
Foster Park (near Ventura)
Day 2) Monday, May 28th, 2001 (Ventura to Maricopa)
Boat Trip to Santa Cruz Island (Scorpion Anchorage);
Andree’ Clark Bird Refuge (Santa Barbara);
Happy Canyon Road (near Santa Ynez)
Day 3) Tuesday, May 29th, 2001 (Maricopa to Gorman)
Maricopa area;
Mount Pinos area
Day 4) Wednesday, May 30th, 2001 (Gorman to Wrightwood)
Angeles Forest Highway (Highway N3);
Angeles Crest Highway (Highway 2);
Wrightwood area;
Buckhorn Flat area of Highway 2
Day 5) Thursday, May 31st, 2001 (Wrightwood area)
Arch Picnic Area;
Angeles Crest Highway (Highway 2);
East Blue Ridge Road;
Buckhorn Flat area of Highway 2
Day 6) Friday, June 1st, 2001 (Wrightwood to Big Bear Lake)
Buckhorn Flat area of Highway 2;
Grout Bay Picnic Area (near Big Bear Lake);
Baldwin Lake Road (near Big Bear Lake);
Jenks Lake Road (along Highway 38);
Polique Canyon Road (near Big Bear Lake)
Day 7) Saturday, June 2nd, 2001 (Big Bear Lake to Idyllwild)
Angelus Oaks and Monkeyface Falls (along Highway 38);
San Jacinto Wildlife Area;
Highway 243 (Banning to Idyllwild);
Idyllwild County Park Nature Center;
Humber County Park
Day 8) Sunday, June 3rd, 2001 (Idyllwild to Orange-Anaheim area)
Hurkey Creek Campground (near Mountain Center);
Big Morongo Valley Preserve;
Santiago Oaks Regional Park (near Orange)
Day 9) Monday, June 4th, 2001 (Orange-Anaheim area to Los Angeles)
Bolsa Chica State Ecological Reserve
California Trip List ---- May 27th to June 4th, 2001
1) Pied-billed Grebe
2) Eared Grebe
3) Western Grebe
4) Sooty Shearwater
5) Ashy Storm-Petrel*
6) Brown Pelican
7) Double-crested Cormorant
8) Brandt's Cormorant
9) Pelagic Cormorant
10) Great Blue Heron
11) Great Egret
12) Snowy Egret
13) Green Heron
14) Black-crowned Night-Heron
15) White-faced Ibis
16) Mallard
17) Cinnamon Teal
18) Gadwall
19) American Wigeon
20) Redhead
21) Bufflehead
22) Ruddy Duck
23) Turkey Vulture
24) Osprey
25) White-tailed Kite
26) Bald Eagle
27) Sharp-shinned Hawk
28) Cooper's Hawk
29) Red-shouldered Hawk
30) Red-tailed Hawk
31) American Kestrel
32) Prairie Falcon
33) Ring-necked Pheasant
34) California Quail
35) Mountain Quail*
36) Virginia Rail
37) American Coot
38) Black-bellied Plover
39) Snowy Plover
40) Semipalmated Plover
41) Killdeer
42) Black-necked Stilt
43) American Avocet
44) Willet
45) Western Sandpiper
46) Western Gull
47) Caspian Tern
48) Elegant Tern
49) Common Tern
50) Forster's Tern
51) Least Tern
52) Black Skimmer
53) Pigeon Guillemot
54) Rock Dove
55) Band-tailed Pigeon
56) Mourning Dove
57) Greater Roadrunner
58) Flammulated Owl*
59) Western Screech-Owl*
60) Great Horned Owl
61) Burrowing Owl
62) Common Nighthawk
63) Common Poorwill*
64) Black Swift
65) White-throated Swift
66) Black-chinned Hummingbird
67) Anna's Hummingbird
68) Costa's Hummingbird
69) Allen's Hummingbird
70) Acorn Woodpecker
71) Ladder-backed Woodpecker
72) Nuttall's Woodpecker
73) Hairy Woodpecker
74) White-headed Woodpecker
75) Northern "Red-shafted" Flicker
76) Olive-sided Flycatcher
77) Western Wood-Pewee
78) Pacific-slope Flycatcher
79) Black Phoebe
80) Vermilion Flycatcher
81) Ash-throated Flycatcher
82) Brown-crested Flycatcher
83) Cassin's Kingbird
84) Western Kingbird
85) Violet-green Swallow
86) Northern Rough-winged Swallow
87) Bank Swallow
88) Cliff Swallow
89) Barn Swallow
90) Island Scrub-Jay*
91) Western Scrub-Jay
92) Steller's Jay
93) Clark's Nutcracker
94) Yellow-billed Magpie
95) American Crow
96) Common Raven
97) Mountain Chickadee
98) Oak Titmouse
99) Verdin
100) Bushtit
101) White-breasted Nuthatch
102) Pygmy Nuthatch
103) Rock Wren
104) Canyon Wren
105) Bewick's Wren
106) House Wren
107) Marsh Wren
108) California Gnatcatcher*
109) Western Bluebird
110) American Robin
111) Wrentit
112) Northern Mockingbird
113) California Thrasher
114) Le Conte's Thrasher*
115) Phainopepla
116) Loggerhead Shrike
117) European Starling
118) Orange-crowned Warbler
119) Yellow-rumped "Audubon's" Warbler
120) Common Yellowthroat
121) Yellow-breasted Chat
122) Summer Tanager
123) Western Tanager
124) Rose-breasted Grosbeak
125) Black-headed Grosbeak
126) Blue Grosbeak
127) Green-tailed Towhee
128) Spotted "Rufous-sided" Towhee
129) California Towhee
130) Rufous-crowned Sparrow
131) Chipping Sparrow
132) Black-chinned Sparrow
133) Lark Sparrow
134) Bell's Sparrow* ("canescens" and "belli" subspecies)
135) "Belding's" Savannah Sparrow
136) "Thick-billed" Fox Sparrow
137) Song Sparrow
138) Dark-eyed "Oregon" Junco
139) Red-winged Blackbird
140) Tricolored Blackbird*
141) Western Meadowlark
142) Yellow-headed Blackbird
143) Brewer's Blackbird
144) Great-tailed Grackle
145) Brown-headed Cowbird
146) Hooded Oriole
147) Bullock's "Northern" Oriole
148) Cassin's Finch
149) House Finch
150) Lesser Goldfinch
151) American Goldfinch
152) House Sparrow
* Denotes a 'life bird'.
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