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Location Lower Klamath NWR (CA side)
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Owner Steve Summers

Effort

Protocol:  Historical
  • Observers:  1

Checklist Comments

At 0615 this morning I was on Stateline Rd. (Hwy. 161) at Lower Klamath N.W.R. I came down here looking for an adult Little Blue Heron found yesterday by Mike Robbins and Ray Ekstrom. Much to my surprise at 0630 I found an adult alternate plumaged Laughing Gull at the tour route entrance. It wasn’t until about 0800 that I found the Little Blue Heron in a field about 1½ miles west of the tour route entrance.

Totals

8
Species Observed

Observations

  1. Short-billed Dowitcher

    Number observed:  X

    Details

    With Long-billed Dowitchers. I first became aware of their presence by their calls

  2. Long-billed Dowitcher

    Number observed:  X

  3. Laughing Gull

    Number observed:  1

    Details

    FOR PHOTOS see eBird list https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S29265533

    I was able to watch the Laughing Gull at my leisure and took several photos (see Photo section). After about 10 min. it flew south out of sight (after, luckily, it had also flown over to the Oregon side once – 1st State record). I then left to go on looking for the Little Blue Heron. At 0730 I returned and it was back. It stayed a shorter time this time and left to the east crossing back and forth over Stateline Rd. between Klamath and Siskiyou Co’s. It was with a largish flock (30-40 birds) of gulls and terns (Calif., Ring-b., Caspian, Forster’s) that were feeding in a canal crossing with the tour route road. After that I finally saw the Little Blue Heron.
    Laughing Gull – Head: black hooded, eye dark with incomplete eyering white. Bill: red and larger (thicker) than a Franklin’s Gull. Mantle: dark gray merging to black wing tips., no white present in upper surface of wings except on trailing edge of secondaries. Nape & Tail white. Underparts: white. Legs and feet appeared dark, I did not discern color so could have been darkish red. Size: in between Forester’s Tern and Caspian Tern. Heavier bodied.

  4. Ring-billed Gull

    Number observed:  X

  5. California Gull

    Number observed:  X

  6. Caspian Tern

    Number observed:  X

  7. Forster's Tern

    Number observed:  X

  8. Little Blue Heron

    Number observed:  1

    Details

    Typical adult, about the size of Snowy Egret whole body slaty-blue, neck and head dark maroon-brown. Bill bluish with black tip. Legs darkish, I didn’t note any color. My photo of this bird will be small. This is the 2nd Siskiyou Co. record. [photo is a slide not digitized stored away somewhere in boxes]