Carpinteria salt marsh, December 15, 2016
There was a decent high tide at the marsh this morning, and rain due over the next couple of days, so I took advantage of one of my last good chances to do scouting before Sunday’s count. Highlights were a single female Pintail and a neat patch of flowering Salt Marsh Dodder growing by the railroad tracks.
Also, the way it looked when the rain started falling.
Carpinteria Salt Marsh Reserve (restricted access), Santa Barbara, California, US
Dec 15, 2016 7:35 AM - 9:49 AM
Protocol: Traveling
1.0 mile(s)
Comments: Scoped the marsh from Estero Way, then walked the railroad tracks to Sand Point Road and back. Tide was 6’ at the beginning, topped out at 6.8’ at the end.
47 species
Brant 2
Mallard 6
Blue-winged Teal 5
Northern Pintail 1 Female
Green-winged Teal 6
Bufflehead 3
Red-breasted Merganser 2
Pied-billed Grebe 1
Double-crested Cormorant 2
Brown Pelican 1
Great Blue Heron 3
Great Egret 4
Snowy Egret 8
Black-crowned Night-Heron 1
Turkey Vulture 4
Osprey 2
Red-tailed Hawk 1
Killdeer 21
Whimbrel 1
Long-billed Curlew 16
Greater Yellowlegs 3
Willet 115
Western Gull 2
Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon) 22
Eurasian Collared-Dove 12
Anna’s Hummingbird 4
Belted Kingfisher 1 Female
Black Phoebe 3
Say’s Phoebe 2
California Scrub-Jay 1
American Crow 10
Bushtit 14
Marsh Wren 1
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 1
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 1
Northern Mockingbird 2
European Starling 1
American Pipit 1
Orange-crowned Warbler 1
Common Yellowthroat 2
Yellow-rumped Warbler 7
Townsend’s Warbler 1
White-crowned Sparrow 4
Savannah Sparrow 1
California Towhee 1
House Finch 4
House Sparrow 1
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Tags: carp without cars.