Location: AltmontPassWindResourcePlanning Area - Tour
Observation date: 11/16/09
Notes: Today I tour the closed to public Altamont Pass Wind Resource Area.
I am on the stakeholder planning board to resolve the raptor mortality issues by the wind turbines. We toured today with the new Cal.F&G and California Energy Commission Independent Scientific Review Committee. The land birds were everywhere and in good numbers. Weather was warm and no wind. Blackbirds and Starling were on the wires, grassland birds were seen in various size flocks as we drove along the gravel roads within the wind resource area.
Number of species: 28
Turkey Vulture 27
White-tailed Kite 2
Northern Harrier 1
Red-tailed Hawk (Western) 7
Ferruginous Hawk 1
Golden Eagle 1
Killdeer 3
Ring-billed Gull 8
Glaucous-winged Gull 1
Band-tailed Pigeon 27
Mourning Dove 30
Burrowing Owl 7
Northern Flicker 1
Black Phoebe 1
Loggerhead Shrike 9
Common Raven 4
Horned Lark 280
Rock Wren 1
Western Bluebird 2
American Robin 1
Northern Mockingbird 1
European Starling 350
American Pipit 213
Savannah Sparrow 5
Red-winged Blackbird 50
Western Meadowlark 150
Brewer's Blackbird 300
House Finch 15
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