Travel Journal

Anza-Borrego Desert/Salton Sea Bird List

March 1997




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Anza-Borrego Desert

Listed by date, in the order that I saw them. Vajrapani, Tehachapi, and Morongo Valley are places we stayed on the trip south from Boulder Creek. Yaqui Well and Culp Valley are sites within Anza Borrego Desert state park. We also stayed at Tamarisk Grove, also in the state park, but for some reason I did not write down any birds we saw there. I know we had a Gambel's quail and a California thrasher in our campsite - as well as Ana's hummingbird. I need to verify those with my trip diary (as opposed to the bird list notebook) and add them on the appropriate dates.

Species

Place

Date

California quail

Vajrapani

3/17/97

Steller's jay

Tehachapi campground

3/17/97

Clark's nutcracker

Morongo Valley campground

3/17/97

white headed woodpecker

Tehachapi campground

3/17/97

white crowned sparrow - Gambel's form

Culp Valley

3/18/97

purple finch

Culp Valley

3/18/97

house finch

Yaqui Well

3/19/97

phainopepla - male & female

Yaqui Well

3/19/97

white winged dove - male & female

Yaqui Well

3/19/97

broad billed hummingbird

Yaqui Well

3/19/97

verdin

Yaqui Well

3/19/97

chrissal thrasher

Yaqui Well

3/19/97

Costa's hummingbird

Yaqui Well

3/19/97

common raven

Desert Gardens

3/19/97

California towhee

Yaqui Well

3/21/97

white crowned sparrow

Yaqui Well

3/21/97

Salton Sea

Species are listed in the order in which I saw them. All sightings were on the Salton Sea National Wildlife Refuge. Someday I'll add in the "unit" locations for each - the refuge is divided into numbered units. All sightings were on March 21, 1997.

Species

Place

Date

snow goose - 500 of them!

Salton Sea National Wildlife Refuge

3/21/97

black necked stilt

long billed dowitcher - 200 of them!

cinnamon teal

American avocet

American coot

killdeer

western meadowlark

ruddy duck

white faced ibis

western sandpiper

California gull

northern shoveler

American white pelican

great egret

great blue heron

burrowing owl

redwing blackbird

Abert's towhee

mourning dove

American crow

pintail duck

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