After our first week in America, we hired a car and drove down the coast to stay in an Airbandb in Seaside, just a 10 minute drive from Monterey. On the trip down, we saw our first Turkey Vultures of the trip.
The place we were staying had a garden, and, whilst there,
we spotted 1 Hooded Oriole (male), Anna’s Hummingbird (seen
daily), Northern Mockingbird (1 across the road), Acorn Woodpecker
(1 in the garden), Bushtit (a flock of c15 birds visiting the garden’s
water feature for a drink and a bath), Oak Titmouse (2 in the garden), American
Crow (regular around the garden, and flocks of c100 flying over to roost
somewhere every evening), California Scrub Jay (daily in the garden), Turkey
Vulture (daily over the house and beach).
Great-tailed Grackles (male and female birds) were
seen around Robert’s Lake, whilst Seaside State Beach had a fantastic flock of Heerman’s Gull (200+), Western Gull,
California Gull, Whimbrel ( a flock of 29 on the beach), Long-billed
Curlew, Caspian Tern (1 adult and 1 juvenile, roosting with the
gulls on the beach), Marbled Godwit (1 on the beach), Sanderling
(c.10 on the beach) and Western Snowy Plover (adults and 2 chicks).
Whilst looking around Monterey’s Cannery Row we saw Pigeon Guillemot, Pelagic
Cormorant, Great Egret, Brown Pelican and Brandt’s
Cormorant.
Black Turnstone and Grey Phalarope were added in MontereyHarbour, along with 20+ Californian Sealions, Southern Sea Otters, Brandt’s Cormorants, Great Egret, Surf Scoter (2), Barn Swallow, Western Gulls and Heerman’s Gulls.
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