Morning Birding Species List | July 15, 2014

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Tuesday, July 15, 2014, 6:30AM – 9:30AM
Weather:  mostly sunny
Location: Rock Bottom Ranch

Species Identified
Canada Goose Mallard Great Blue Heron Cooper’s Hawk American Kestrel Virginia Rail (adult with two chicks) Rock Pigeon Eurasian Collared-Dove		Broad-tailed Hummingbird Belted Kingfisher Lewis’ Woodpecker Northern Flicker Western Flycatcher Western Wood-Peewee Cordilleran Flycatcher Warbling Vireo		Black-billed Magpie American Crow Tree Swallow Violet-green Swallow Black-capped Chickadee White-breasted Nuthatch House Wren American Robin		Gray Catbird Virginia’s Warbler Yellow Warbler Song Sparrow Black-headed Grosbeak Red-winged Blackbird (pictured above) Yellow-headed Blackbird Bullock’s Oriole

Comments: the baby herons are big and look ready to fledge within the next week. We had a rare chance to observe an adult Virginia Rail with two chicks for a length of time; normally these birds are extremely elusive, hidden in the cattail marsh where they live.  This was an excellent morning with great looks at Bullock’s Oriole adults and fledgling, Yellow-headed Blackbird, and Lewis’ woodpeckers.

~ Rebecca Weiss, ACES Naturalist