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Marin County, CA
June 2018
Synopsis
We spent a long weekend in Marin County (north of San Francisco) with a group of great friends. While we weren't busy hanging out at our friend's beautiful house, we did get out to enjoy some of the fantasic local scenery. The Ellis Creek Water Recycling Facility housed some great water birds and a nestbox of young Barn Owls. At the Point Reyes National Seashore Abbott's Lagoon, we enjoyed the wonderful wildflowers, colorful garter snakes, and a pair of Snowy Plovers. At the Mount Tamalpais Watershed, we hiked among the meadows and oaks to soak in the colorful flowers and butterflies. It was a wonderful weekend made even better with friends.
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| Canada Goose | PR,EC |
| Mute Swan | EC |
| Northern Shoveler | EC |
| Mallard | EC |
| Surf Scoter | PR |
| Common Merganser | MT |
| California Quail | PR |
| Double-crested Cormorant | PR |
| Great Egret | EC |
| Snowy Egret | EC |
| Turkey Vulture | PR,EC,MT |
| Osprey | PR,MT |
| Red-shouldered Hawk | EC |
| Red-tailed Hawk | PR |
| Virginia Rail | EC |
| Black-necked Stilt | EC |
| American Avocet | EC |
| Snowy Plover | PR |
| Western Gull | PR |
| California Gull | EC |
| Forster's Tern | EC |
| Band-tailed Pigeon | MT |
| Mourning Dove | MT |
| Barn Owl | EC |
| Anna's Hummingbird | EC,MT |
| Belted Kingfisher | MT |
| Acorn Woodpecker | MT |
| Northern Flicker | MT |
| American Kestrel | MT |
| Olive-sided Flycatcher | MT |
| Pacific-slope Flycatcher | MT |
| Black Phoebe | EC |
| Hutton's Vireo | MT |
| Warbling Vireo | MT |
| Steller's Jay | MT |
| California Scrub-Jay | PR,MT |
| American Crow | PR,EC |
| Common Raven | PR |
| Northern Rough-winged Swallow | PR,EC |
| Tree Swallow | EC |
| Violet-green Swallow | PR,MT |
| Cliff Swallow | EC |
| Chestnut-backed Chickadee | EC,MT |
| Bushtit | MT |
| Brown Creeper | MT |
| Marsh Wren | PR,EC |
| Bewick's Wren | MT |
| Wrentit | PR |
| Swainson's Thrush | PR |
| Hermit Thrush | MT |
| American Robin | EC |
| Northern Mockingbird | EC |
| European Starling | EC |
| Orange-crowned Warbler | MT |
| Common Yellowthroat | PR |
| Yellow-rumped Warbler | MT |
| Wilson's Warbler | MT |
| Grasshopper Sparrow | PR |
| Dark-eyed Junco | MT |
| White-crowned Sparrow | PR |
| Savannah Sparrow | EC |
| Song Sparrow | PR,EC |
| Spotted Towhee | PR,EC,MT |
| Bullock's Oriole | EC |
| Red-winged Blackbird | PR,EC |
| Brown-headed Cowbird | PR |
| Great-tailed Grackle | EC |
| American Goldfinch | PR,EC |
| Critters | |
| Mule deer | EC |
| Sonoma chipmunk | MT |
| Garter snake | PT, MT |
| Yellow-legged frog | MT |
| Alligator lizard | MT |
| Rough skinned newt | MT |
| Western fence lizard | PT, MT |
| Western pond turtle | MT |
| Butterfly | |
| Acmon blue | |
| Chalcedona checkerspot | |
| Ochre ringlet | |
| California sister | |
| Flowers | |
| Yellow bush lupine | PR |
| Cobweb thistle | PR |
| California poppy | PR, MT |
| Cow's clover | PR |
| Common yellow monkeyflower | PR |
| Beach morning glory | PR |
| Varied lupine | PR |
| Ithuriel's spear | PR |
| Douglas iris | PR |
| Seaside woolly sunflower | PR |
| Blue eye grass | PR, MT |
| Seaside wild buckwheat | PR |
| Seaside heliotrope | PR |
| Headland wallflower | PR |
| Yellow sand verbena | PR |
| Bluehead gilia | MT |
| Slender clarkia | MT |
| Pacific false bindweed | MT |
| Sticky monkey flower | MT |
| Yellow mariposa lily | MT |
| California yerba santa | MT |
| Oakland star tulip | MT |
| Coast flatsteam onion | MT |
| Canyon liveforever | MT |
| Coyote mink | MT |
| California buckeye | MT |
| Hermann's bird's-foot | MT |
| Red larkspur | MT |
| Coast range stonecrop | MT |
| Red ribbons | MT |
| Red columbine | MT |
| Western azalea | MT |
| Indian pink | MT |
| PR: Pt. Reyes--Abbotts Lagoon Trail | |
| EC: Ellis Creek Water Recycling Facility | |
| MT: Mount Tamalpais Watershed--Old Sled Trail, Carson Falls Trail, Kent Lake | |
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