There are 43 birds in the list below. 1. Common Loon,4/1/1983,Estero Morua,4 or 5 Common Loon
2. Eared Grebe,4/1/1983,Estero Morua,(summer plumage - on beach hurt-- put him back in water)
3. Brown Pelican,4/1/1983,Estero Morua,
4. Blue-footed Booby,4/1/1983,Estero Morua,Blue-footed Booby with broken wing in the gulf.
5. Wilson's Plover,4/1/1983,Estero Morua,(60)
6. Great Egret,4/1/1983,Estero Morua,Actually the journal reads just EGRETS.
7. Great Blue Heron,4/1/1983,Estero Morua
8. Red-tailed Hawk,4/1/1983,Estero Morua
9. Osprey,4/1/1983,Estero Morua
10. Whimbrel,4/1/1983,Estero Morua
11. Long-billed Curlew,4/1/1983,Estero Morua,rare
12. Sanderling,4/1/1983,Estero Morua,4 or 5
13. American Avocet,4/1/1983,Estero Morua,(40)
14. Black-bellied Plover,4/1/1983,Estero Morua,(summer belly)
15. Western Gull,4/1/1983,Estero Morua,"white gull" Immature westerns? Adult western. ,The gulls are puzzlers: largely immature. They don't come into our dune to eat -- are ringbills therefore gone? Are there Californias present? Herrings are here. 1000s of gulls wheeling very high above.
16. Ruddy Turnstone,4/1/1983,Estero Morua,(12)
17. American Oystercatcher,4/1/1983,Estero Morua,(1) Is an Oystercatcher on eggs alone Oc'er is rare. (I take this to mean from the notes that there was one lone osytercatcher on eggs and since they're usually seen in pairs this looked rare --TC)
18. Wandering Tattler,4/1/1983,Estero Morua
19. Caspian Tern,4/1/1983,Estero Morua,?
20. Forster's Tern,4/1/1983,Estero Morua
21. Least Tern,4/1/1983,Estero Morua
22. Elegant Tern,4/1/1983,Estero Morua
23. Heermann's Gull,4/1/1983,Estero Morua,The gulls are puzzlers: largely immature. They don't come into our dune to eat -- are ringbills therefore gone? Are there Californias present? Herrings are here. 1000s of gulls wheeling very high above.
24. Bonaparte's Gull,4/1/1983,Estero Morua,The gulls are puzzlers: largely immature. They don't come into our dune to eat -- are ringbills therefore gone? Are there Californias present? Herrings are here. 1000s of gulls wheeling very high above.
25. Herring Gull,4/1/1983,Estero Morua,The gulls are puzzlers: largely immature. They don't come into our dune to eat -- are ringbills therefore gone? Are there Californias present? Herrings are here. 1000s of gulls wheeling very high above.
26. Red Knot,4/1/1983,Estero Morua
27. Violet-green Swallow,4/1/1983,Estero Morua
28. House Sparrow,4/1/1983,Estero Morua
29. Barn Swallow,4/1/1983,Estero Morua
30. Loggerhead Shrike,4/1/1983,Estero Morua,on our house
31. European Starling,4/1/1983,Estero Morua
32. Wilson's Warbler,4/1/1983,Estero Morua
33. Great-tailed Grackle,4/1/1983,Estero Morua
34. Western Meadowlark,4/1/1983,Estero Morua
35. Black-necked Stilt,4/1/1983,Estero Morua,(8)
36. Marbled Godwit,4/1/1983,Estero Morua
37. Generic Hummingbird,4/1/1983,Estero Morua
38. Cassin's Kingbird,4/1/1983,Estero Morua
39. Mourning Dove,4/1/1983,Estero Morua
40. Say's Phoebe,4/1/1983,Estero Morua
41. Brown Booby,4/1/1983,Estero Morua,(One Brown Booby)
42. Common Poorwill,4/1/1983,Estero Morua,Poorwill in Davis' storage room. New for here. It flew.
43. Northern Mockingbird,4/1/1983,Estero Morua,The first bird we saw as we came in.