Gualala Birds

Hard to say the winter weather hasn’t slowed down my birding a bit. The hours of daylight is less and there’s been a lot of rain recently. Local residents rain gauge shows a tad over 6″ of rain since September 1^st – a lot of rain!

I have done some birding – a lot of the normal residents are still here.

Let’s do a quick run-down of what I consider long term residents of the park.

I’ll define long-term as 8+ month visitors.

• Ruby-crowned Kinglet
• Stellars Jay
• Ospreys (seemingly peak in Summer; fewer now)
• Dark-eyed Junco’s
• American Crows
• Raven
• Black Phoebe
• White and Yellow Crowned Sparrows
• Song Sparrow
• Yellow-rumped Warblers (More in fall/winter)
• Acorn Woodpeckers
• Hairy Woodpeckers
• Northern Flickers
• European Starlings
• Pileated Woodpecker
• Wrentit
• European Collared Dove
• American Robin
• Coastal birds – Brown Pelicans, at least 2 types of Cormorants and all the Gulls I don’t know.

I’ll stop here at my last bird, the American Robin. I feel like it is a pretty common bird all over California. On average, I might see 4-10 on any given day.

However, for the last few days I’ve been seeing 40-50 – a crazy amount of Robins.