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Details and pictures to follow but here’s the day list:

• Mallard
• Northern Shoveler
• Horned Grebe
• Eared Grebe
• Western Grebe
• American White Pelican
• Double-crested Cormorant
• Great Blue Heron
• Great Egret
• Snowy Egret
• White-faced Ibis
• Common Moorhen
• American Coot
• Black-bellied Plover
• Killdeer
• Black-necked Stilt
• American Avocet
• Willet
• Least Sandpiper
• Bonaparte’s Gull
• Ring-billed Gull
• California Gull
• Herring Gull
• Glaucous-winged Gull
• Caspian Tern
• Forster’s Tern
• White-winged Dove
• Mourning Dove
• Black Phoebe
• Say’s Phoebe
• Loggerhead Shrike
• Violet-green Swallow
• Verdin
• Northern Mockingbird
• European Starling
• Phainopepla
• Common Yellowthroat
• Abert’s Towhee
• White-crowned Sparrow
• Brewer’s Blackbird
• Great-tailed Grackle
• Brown-headed Cowbird
• House Finch
• House Sparrow
• American Wigeon
• Cinnamon Teal
• Green-winged Teal
• Ruddy Duck
• Gambel’s Quail
• Brown Pelican
• Cattle Egret
• Northern Harrier
• American Kestrel
• Peregrine Falcon
• Long-billed Curlew
• Marbled Godwit
• Long-billed Dowitcher
• Rock Pigeon
• Common Ground-Dove
• Barn Owl
• Northern Flicker
• Western Kingbird
• Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
• Yellow-rumped Warbler
• Chipping Sparrow
• Red-winged Blackbird

66 species including 2 life birds, Abert’s Towhee and Common Ground-dove. However I may be too late for the Yellow-footed Gulls. No albatrosses or boobies either. :-(

More tomorrow. Gila Woodpecker? Sandhill Crane? Mountain Plover? Crissal’s Thrasher?