Palo Alto Duck Pond
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Location Notes
We visit Palo Alto Duck Pond at least
5 times a year.
Our second most visited site; location of bill's first birdwalk with Steve Shunk. Includes birds sighted at Lucy Evans Nature Center.
Note to photographers: This site is now most famous for the egret and night-heron rookery located immediately adjacent to the duck pond parking lot. Here in April and May you can get great morning light shots of nesting egrets and night-herons squabbling over nest sites, sitting on eggs, perched in the palm trees with their chicks, or flying frequently to and from the nest. Be sure to check the duck pond for interesting and highly acclimated ducks and gulls -- with a 500mm you can get some great portraits here. Be sure to check the trees around the pond for passerines and raptors.
Latest trip
First trip
112 Species
Ducks, Geese, and Swans
Partridges, Grouse, Turkeys, and Old World Quail
Grebes
Pelicans
Cormorants
Bitterns and Herons
New World Vultures
Hawks, Kites, and Eagles
Caracaras and Falcons
Rails, Gallinules and Coots
Plovers
Stilts and Avocets
Sandpipers and Phalaropes
Yellowlegs sp.
NOT ABA COUNTABLE
Dowitcher sp.
NOT ABA COUNTABLE
Skuas, Gulls, and Terns
Pigeons and Doves
Hummingbirds
Kingfishers
Tyrant Flycatchers
Shrikes
Jays and Crows
Swallows
Chickadees and Titmice
Bushtits
Wrens
Kinglets
Mockingbirds and Thrashers
Starlings
Wood-Warblers
Emberizids
Blackbirds
Northern Finches
Old World Sparrows
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