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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.

April 25

2Common Gallinule
4Least Tern
6Anhinga
2Black-crowned Night Heron
1Green Heron
3Great Egret
2Blue Jay
2American Crow
1Fish Crow
3Carolina Chickadee
2Tufted Titmouse
3Brown-headed Nuthatch
2Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
1Carolina Wren
1American Robin
1White-throated Sparrow
1Baltimore Oriole
4Red-winged Blackbird
1Brown-headed Cowbird
3Common Grackle
1Northern Waterthrush
1Prothonotary Warbler
1Common Yellowthroat
1Pine Warbler
2Northern Cardinal
1Blue-winged Teal
1Sora
2Killdeer
2Whimbrel
32Lesser Yellowlegs
5Greater Yellowlegs
2Double-crested Cormorant
3Little Blue Heron
2Tricolored Heron
2Glossy Ibis
1Osprey
1Red-bellied Woodpecker
1Pileated Woodpecker
2Barn Swallow
2European Starling
1Brown Thrasher
1Painted Bunting
1Pied-billed Grebe
1House Finch

April 24

2Black-necked Stilt
1Willet
4Snowy Egret
3Great Blue Heron
3Black Vulture
8Tree Swallow

April 22

1Clapper Rail
3Spotted Sandpiper
2Solitary Sandpiper
1Turkey Vulture
1Merlin
1Great Crested Flycatcher
1Indigo Bunting
2Northern Shoveler
7Mourning Dove
150Short-billed Dowitcher
20Red Knot
200Least Sandpiper
1Pectoral Sandpiper
6Laughing Gull
7Royal Tern
1Bald Eagle
1Red-tailed Hawk
1Downy Woodpecker
1White-eyed Vireo
1Eastern Towhee
1Yellow-rumped Warbler

April 21

1Black-bellied Plover
2Bonaparte's Gull
12Black Skimmer
1Summer Tanager

April 20

2Chimney Swift
3White Ibis
1Northern Flicker
1Eastern Bluebird
1American Coot
1Long-billed Dowitcher
1Savannah Sparrow
1Swamp Sparrow

April 19

2Forster's Tern
30Semipalmated Sandpiper
1Boat-tailed Grackle
2Western Sandpiper
1Gray Catbird
1Northern Mockingbird
XOrchard Oriole
1Least Bittern
1Hairy Woodpecker
2Purple Martin
1Wood Thrush
1House Sparrow
1Yellow Warbler
1Yellow-throated Warbler