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Some more Huntington Beach birds



I visited Huntington Beach State Park over the weekend and can add a
handful of species to those already reported by others in the last week
or so:

Great Cormorant -- at the end of the Jetty.  I had a nice comparison of
  the Great and a Double-crested sitting side by side.  The bill difference
  is really striking when you can see both at once.
Black-crowned Night Heron -- flying over at dusk
Canvasback -- a lone female at Sandpiper Pond
Peregrine Falcon -- an adult perched on low vegetation far back
  in the marsh.  It was still sitting in the same spot about 2 hours
  after I first saw it. (No, it wasn't a decoy, either.)
Great Horned Owl -- heard in the distance at dusk
American Pipit -- a couple of fly-overs
Saltmarsh Sharp-tailed Sparrow -- just after admiring the Reddish
  Egret late Saturday I had great close-up scope views of 4-5 of these
  sparrows right on the rocks of the jetty, at its base in the marsh.
  I was able to study every field mark right down to the fine black
  streaks in the posterior part of the superciliary line, which I
  had not successfully discerned before.

Kent.Fiala@sas.com
Raleigh