date and time:  09 August 2025, from 05:30 to 11:45

weather:  clear, with ground fog visible to the south; negligible air movement until around 11:10, then W wind about 5 mph; temp 56 degrees F.

route:  standard Trochet with the addition of a check of the northwest pond, now dry.

solo survey

birds:

Canada goose-  89

wood duck-  1

cinnamon teal-  2

mallard-  220

duck sp.-  440 (most of these east over rice fields behind the Farm Center gate)

California quail-  14

ring-necked pheasant-  1 (heard only)

wild turkey-  20

mourning dove-  18

black-crowned night-heron-  1

great egret-  12

great blue heron-  2

killdeer-  8

lesser yellowlegs-  1

greater yellowlegs-  16

Caspian tern-  1

white-faced ibis-  60

white-tailed kite-  2

red-shouldered hawk-  2

Swainson’s hawk-  1

red-tailed hawk-  4

no owls

American kestrel-  4

peregrine falcon-  1

western kingbird-  1

ash-throated flycatcher-  1

western wood-pewee-  1  (heard only in the southeast, where found last month, too, but forgotten on that trip report!)

black phoebe-  6

loggerhead shrike-  1

California scrub-jay-  3

American crow-  30 (most at a mob scene about 100 meters east of the railroad tracks; the object of interest escaped my notice)

no swallows

bushtit-  2

Bewick’s wren-  2

northern house wren-  3

marsh wren-  2 (heard only)

western bluebird-  22 (a very good total for this spot)

American robin-  1

European starling-  2

house finch-  30

lesser goldfinch-  5

American goldfinch-  2

song sparrow-  4 (very low)

California towhee-  1 (heard only)

spotted towhee-  5

no western meadowlark

red-winged blackbird-  720 ( almost all adult males, with the cowbirds admixed)

brown-headed cowbird-  8

Brewer’s blackbird-  88

blackbird sp.-  380

common yellowthroat-  1 (heard only)