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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.

May 1

3Black-bellied Plover
6Semipalmated Plover
6Lesser Yellowlegs
4Greater Yellowlegs
8Least Sandpiper
2Least Tern
2Anhinga
1Glossy Ibis
1Least Bittern
2Green Heron
1Swallow-tailed Kite
5Fish Crow
3Tufted Titmouse
9Barn Swallow
3Northern Mockingbird
7Red-winged Blackbird
4Common Grackle
3Boat-tailed Grackle
1Blue Grosbeak
2Painted Bunting

April 30

1Mourning Dove
2Laughing Gull
2Little Blue Heron
3Tricolored Heron
4Snowy Egret
3Great Egret
2Great Blue Heron
2Turkey Vulture
1Osprey
2Bald Eagle
1Mississippi Kite
2Great Crested Flycatcher
1American Crow
1Carolina Chickadee
1Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
2Carolina Wren
2Northern Cardinal

April 29

1Killdeer
1Short-billed Dowitcher
3Willet
1Sanderling
1Royal Tern
1Pileated Woodpecker
1White-breasted Nuthatch
1European Starling
1Brown Thrasher
1House Finch
1Prothonotary Warbler
1Pine Warbler

April 27

2Canada Goose
9Blue-winged Teal
4Common Gallinule
1Spotted Sandpiper
1Ring-billed Gull
1Gull-billed Tern
1Caspian Tern
21Double-crested Cormorant
3Blue Jay
55Tree Swallow

April 26

2Sora
1Black-necked Stilt
27Whimbrel
2Black-crowned Night Heron

April 25

2Solitary Sandpiper
1Red-bellied Woodpecker