2018 – Bird Species observed around Fruitgrowers Reservoir
There is no particular process to this, other than I post what I see or what other reliable observers tell me. It’s anecdotal, not systematic.
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- Canada Goose
- Bald Eagle
- Common Merganser
- Ring-necked Pheasant
- Mallard
- Redhead
- Northern Harrier
- Great Blue Heron
- Northern Pintail
- Green-winged Teal
- Western Meadowlark
- Red-tailed Hawk
- Red-winged Blackbird
- Yellow-headed Blackbird (Feb 23 single bird flocking with R-w Blackbirds)
- American Crow
- Common Raven
- Black-billed Magpie
- Ring-necked Duck
- Cinnamon Teal
- Belted Kingfisher
- Mountain Bluebird
- Common Goldeneye
- Mourning Dove
- Eurasian Collared-Dove
- Starling
- American Coot
- Kestrel
- Ferruginous Hawk
- Double-crested Cormorant
- Gadwall
- Lewis’s Woodpecker
- American Robin
- Northern (Yellow-shafted) Flicker
- American Wigeon
- Golden Eagle
- Snow Goose
- Northern Shoveler
- Yellowlegs (G. or L.?)
- Osprey
- Ruddy Duck
- Ringed-bill Gull
- Bonaparte’s Gull
- American Avocet
- Western Grebe
- Western Scrub Jay [I guess we’re now supposed to call it Woodhouse’s instead of Western but I’ll need some time to adjust – I still tend to call House Sparrows English and Northern Harriers Marsh Hawks.]
- Killdeer
- Loggerhead Shrike
- Song Sparrow
- Franklin’s Gull
- Pied-billed Grebe
- Eared Grebe
- Long-billed Curlew
- Common Loon
- Canvasback
- White-faced Ibis
- Clark’s Grebe
- Turkey Vulture
- White Pelican
- Swallow (Sp.?)
- Blue-winged Teal
- Marbled Godwit
- Great Egret
- Willet
- Wilson’s Phalarope
- Common Tern
- Dowitcher (Long-billed, I think)