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Recent reports from Huntington Beach SP--Mullet Pond

Only the most recent report per species is shown. Some reports may be pending verification.

October 26

3Mourning Dove ✓
4Laughing Gull ✓
2Forster's Tern ✓
4Pied-billed Grebe ✓
6Double-crested Cormorant ✓
2White Ibis ✓
1Roseate Spoonbill ✓
1Little Blue Heron ✓
1Tricolored Heron ✓
5Snowy Egret ✓
2Great Egret ✓
2Great Blue Heron ✓
1Yellow-bellied Sapsucker ✓
2Carolina Chickadee ✓
2Tufted Titmouse ✓
1White-breasted Nuthatch ✓
5Red-winged Blackbird ✓
2Pine Warbler ✓
2Yellow-rumped Warbler ✓
1Northern Cardinal ✓

October 25

4Northern Shoveler ✓
10Least Sandpiper ✓
2Semipalmated Sandpiper
2American Herring Gull ✓
25Wood Stork ✓
1Turkey Vulture ✓
1Bald Eagle ✓
1American Crow ✓

October 24

2Semipalmated Plover ✓
2Caspian Tern ✓
1Anhinga ✓
1Brown Pelican ✓
3Black Vulture ✓
1Osprey ✓
2Belted Kingfisher ✓
10Tree Swallow ✓
1Ruddy Duck ✓
2Clapper Rail ✓
2Prairie Willet ✓
1Western Sandpiper ✓
5Ring-billed Gull ✓
1Northern House Wren ✓
2Song Sparrow ✓
18Common Gallinule ✓
3American Coot ✓
1Green Heron ✓
1Northern Harrier ✓
1Pileated Woodpecker ✓
2Northern Flicker ✓
1Eastern Phoebe ✓
2Blue Jay ✓
1Brown-headed Nuthatch ✓
1Carolina Wren ✓
2House Finch ✓
1White-throated Sparrow ✓
2Common Grackle ✓
1Spotted Sandpiper ✓
1Ruby-crowned Kinglet ✓

October 22

5American White Pelican ✓
1Golden-crowned Kinglet ✓
1Black-bellied Plover ✓
1Red-bellied Woodpecker ✓
2Northern Mockingbird ✓
1Eastern Bluebird ✓