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這是我們參加今年數鳥活動的紀錄，前三天都在自己家裡或附近社區進行觀察，可能因為天氣炎熱，鳥兒似乎不太出來活動，總覺得記到的種類和數目比平常來得少。高潮在最後一天的Salton Sea之旅--滿天snow goose，white pelican乘風翔飛，還有田野中的white-faced ibis，水塘裡的green-winged teal，夕陽下湖邊滿立的ring-billed gull--半天下來看見總數八千隻以上的鳥，對第一次參加bird count的人來說，還真是眼力跟計數能力的大特訓呀！

2/16 (Fri)
Time: 4-5pm
Location: around my apartment, Pasadena
Weather: clear
Total number of Species Observed: 9

Acorn Woodpecker 4
Mourning Dove 3
House Finch 6
Towsend's Warbler 1
Northern Mockingbird 1
Band-tailed Pigeon 1
European Starling 13
House Sparrow 2
Rufous Hummingbird 1


2/17 (Sat)
Time: 1-3pm
Location:Lacy Park, San Marino
Weather: clear, warm
Total number of species Observed: 19

Western Scrub-Jay 1
Yellow-rumped Warbler 4
Bushtit 15
House Finch 3
Acorn Woodpecker 3
Cedar Waxwing 3
Orange-Crowned Warbler 1
Anna's Hummingbird 3
Towsend's Warbler 1
Black Phoebe 1
Western Bluebird 2
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 1
Mourning Dove 4
Rock Pigeon 4
Band-tailed Pigeon 1
Yellow-chevroned Parakeet 2
American Crow 2
Cooper's Hawk 1
Red-tailed Hawk 1


Time:4:15-5pm
Location:around my apartment, Pasadena
Weather: partly cloudy
Total number of species: 11

Band-tailed Pigeon 1
Mourning Dove 3
European Starling 12
Yellow-rumped Warbler 10
Anna's Hummingbird 1
Northern Mockingbird 2
Acorn Woodpecker 3
House Finch 4
House Sparrow 6
Cedar Waxwing 1
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 1


2/18 (Sun)
Time: 3:30-5pm,
Location: Chantry Flat, Angeles National Forest
Weather: partly coudy
Total number of Species Observed: 15

Stellar's Jay 3
Western Crub Jay 1
Band-tailed Pigeon 1
Mourning Dove 3
Northern Flicker 1
Orange-crowned Warbler 1
Wrentit 2
House Finch 1
Lesser Goldfinch 2
yellow-rumped Warbler 1
Dark-eyed Junco 3
Mountain Chickadee 3
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 1
Spotted Towhee 1
American Crow 1


2/19 (Mon)
Time:9:30-10am
Location:around my apartment, Pasadena
Weather: partly cloudy
Total number of species: 10

Rock Pigeon 2
Band-tailed Pigeon 3
Mourning Dove 3
Acorn Woodpecker 1
American Crow 3
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 1
Northern Mockingbird 1
European Starling 16
Yellow-rumped Warbler 2
House Finch 4


Time: 1:45-6pm
Location: Sonny Bono Salton Sea Wildlife Refuge
Weather: partly cloudy, windy
Total number of Species Observed: 41

Greater White-fronted Goose 12
Snow Goose 3000
Ross's Goose 100
Cinnamon Teal 5
Northern Shoveler 10
Northern Pintail 2
Green-winged Teal 400
Ruddy Duck 130
Eared Grebe 3
Western Grebe 3
American White Pelican 1200
Double-crested Cormorant 50
Great Blue Heron 1
Great Egret 2
Snowy Egret 40
Green Heron 1
White-faced Ibis 1060
Turkey Vulture 1
Northern Harrier 2
American Kestrel 2
Peregrine Falcon 1
American Coot 57
Killdeer 5
Black-necked Stilt 1
American Avocet 12
Long-billed Curlew 30
Western Sandpiper 2
Least Sandpiper 6
Dunlin 5
Long-billed Dowitcher 300
Ring-billed Gull 1400
California Gull 23
Caspian Tern 2
Mourning Dove 5
Belted Kingfisher 1
Black Phoebe 1
Tree Swallow 20
European Starling 4
Yellow-rumped Warbler 5
Red-winged Blackbird 80
Great-tailed Grackle 40


(Total number of Species Observed during GBBC: 68)