date and time:  07 March 2026, from 05:50 to 11:50

weather:  clear; a pre-sunrise light breeze out of the east turned out of the north by sunup and persisted all survey, rising to about 10mph by the end; temperatures 42-69 degrees F.

route: standard Trochet

solo survey

birds:

snow goose-  330

greater white-fronted goose-  1880

Canada goose-  8

dark goose sp.-  2650

goose sp. (distant silhouettes against the sunrise)-  1500

blue-winged teal-  6

cinnamon teal-  75

northern shoveler-  420

gadwall-  450

Brewer’s duck-  1 (that’s a gadwall x mallard hybrid)

American wigeon-  350

American wigeon x Eurasian wigeon-  1

mallard-  45

northern pintail-  190

green-winged teal-  1020

green-winged x common teal-  1

common teal-  1

ring-necked duck-  80

bufflehead-  18

common goldeneye-  11

hooded merganser-  3

ruddy duck-  2

duck sp.-  280

pied-billed grebe-  2

sandhill crane-  1

Virginia rail-  3

American coot-  290

black-necked stilt-  280

American avocet-  1

killdeer-  30

dunlin-  120

least sandpiper-  18

long-billed dowitcher-  380

Wilson’s snipe-  2

greater yellowlegs-  55

gull sp.-  1

snowy egret-  2

great egret-  14

great blue heron-  5

turkey vulture-  21

northern harrier-  6

sharp-shinned hawk-  1

Cooper’s hawk-  1

red-tailed hawk-  4

great horned owl-  2 (one on a nest)

downy woodpecker-  1

Nuttall’s woodpecker-  5

northern flicker-  3

American kestrel-  2

black phoebe-  9

California scrub-jay-  9

American crow-  12

oak titmouse-  7

tree swallow-  80

northern rough-winged swallow-  1

cliff swallow-  200 (at the Lost Slough I-5 colony)

bushtit-  16 (nest building in a couple of places)

wrentit-  0

ruby-crowned kinglet-  10

Bewick’s wren-  7

northern house wren-  15

marsh wren-  40

western bluebird-  5

hermit thrush-  2

American robin-  9

American pipit-  28

house finch-  25

lesser goldfinch-  7

white-crowned sparrow-  10

golden-crowned sparrow-  14

Savannah sparrow-  70

song sparrow-  25

Lincoln’s sparrow-  2

sparrow- sp.-  15

spotted towhee-  15

western meadowlark-  12

red-winged blackbird-  450 (still lots of “foreigners”)

brown-headed cowbird-  1 (vocal flyover)

Brewer’s blackbird-  2

orange-crowned warbler-  0

common yellowthroat-  6

Audubon’s warbler-  80

myrtle warbler-  7

Audubon’s x myrtle warbler-  1

yellow-rumped warbler ssp.-  30

Townsend’s warbler-  1