1/29 a field trip to Mugu Naval Base in Oxnard with the CVAudubon Society, met at 7:45, ended at 12:25pm. A gorgeous non-windy, sunny, day with temps reaching mid to high 60s. Since no photos were allowed on base this is a picture of the santa monicas from the oxnard plains on Potrero just before the climb back up to T.O.
Birds seen:
Black Skimmers
terns (Fosters)
GBH (several)
at least 30 Yellow capped with a few black capped night herons (the yellow capped nest there)
a Vermillion Flycatcher (they had a nesting pair there last year)
hermit thrush
2 belted kingfishers
several Northern Harriers
several RTs
a Great Horned Owl!!!
Ferruginous Hawk
Peregrine Falcon
Prairie Falcon
Kestrel
a lot of brown pelicans in breeding plumage
northern shovelers
Black Scoter
Surf Scoters
Western Grebes
Horned Grebe
Common Merganser
3 Osprey
Reddish Egrets (3)
Western Meadowlarks
American Pippets
White Crowned Sparrows
Sora
Killdeers (several)
coots (of course)
lots of godwits, long-billed curlews, 2 yellow legs
Brants (lots)
Northern Pintails!
short and long-billed dowitcher
sandpipers
I don't know shore birds as well but there were so many long billed and short billed shore birds it was hard to count and hard for me to tell them apart, except for the curlews, Ibis, marbled godwits, avocets. I saw all of these today.
of course gulls and cormorants.
Many sea lions sunning themselves on the sand. Several in the water coming in from the ocean.
Loons on the ocean side. David said there were shearwaters out there but I didn't see them.