Greetings! Next Event:
November 9, 2008
San Nicholas with Vince Gravel
Meet for rideshare/carpool/caravan at Chapala Cristiania Park at 8 am.
October 28,2008 sightings at Cristiania Park
Seen in the park:
American White Pelican
Neotropic Comorant
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Snowy Egret
Cattle Egret
Black-Crowned Night Heron
American Coot
Ring-Billed Gull
Inca Dove
Golden-Fronted Woodpecker
Vermillion Flycatcher
Great Kiskadee
Gray Flycatcher
Northern Rough-Winged Swallow
Barn Swallow
Blue-Gray Gnatcatcher
Great-Tailed Grackle
Lark Sparrow
House Sparrow
Merlin (first time seen at this location)
Seen in the wetland north of Old Train Station:
Wilson's Snipe
Red-Winged Blackbird
White-Faced Ibis
Killdeer
Mexican Duck
Blue-Winged Teal
Plus bright greenish-yellow bird with an all-yellow head near the entrance of Christiania Park. Might have been a female Orchard Oriole or a female Flame-Colored Tanager. Guess we'll have to go back and get a better look.
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Sincerely,
Allen y Judy (Turner y Boyd) Audubonistas de Laguna Chapala
phone: 376 766 2759
