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Date: 2/13/2020

Today we went to the Bolinas bay. It was so cold, the whole class was freezing but that’s life so we dealt with it. We saw so many birds in the bay and the USF farm. The tide was low. Here is a picture of just part of the bay.

We saw long bill curl birds sticking their beaks into the ground and the beck so long and interesting. We will talk more about the bird in the species account. There were so many wigeons in the water and it was difficult to see if there were any different ones. But, a student pointed out one that looked like it was from Asian. We went to multiple spots along the bay. I learned I need to be quiet while you bird watch and the birds flew away because of my carelessness. I also saw that the flying of the birds looked so cool and noticed different kinds of flapping. Pictured below is a Snowy egret flying and it was so cool to see it in the pictures since their body is in such a bizarre posture. Pictured below.

There were so many birds compared to the last week and this was probably due to the fact that they were so concentrated on the lake and easily visible.

At the very last spot we saw a King Fisher bird and we jumped out of the car since we just about to leave. We saw its flight pattern and it was very different than most birds like the ducks and Snowy egret. Here is a picture of it flapping its wings below. You can see how different the position is in this moment and I wish I was able to film it and watch in slow motion to see the difference. 

Species Account

Common Name: Long-billed Curlew 

Species: Numenius americanus

Family: Charadriiformes 

Order: Scolopacidae

Observations: 191,663

Biogeographical region: North America

https://ebird.org/checklist/S66875529

Bird list 

Killdeer 1 

long-billed curlew 30

Snowy egret 15

Wigeons 450

Great egret 10

Scrub jay 1

American crow 1

Osprey 1 

Eurasian 1

Buffalo head 5

Larsul gull 150

Western gull 10

Turkey gull 1

Double-crested 1 

Kingfisher 1