—– Forwarded message from Bird.Preserve@CITYOFHENDERSON.COM —– Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2012 22:09:46 +0000 From: Bird Preserve
The new entrance to the Henderson Bird Viewing Preserve is now open. Take the 95/515 freeway to the Galleria exit, go east and cross Boulder Highway. The Preserve entrance will be on the north side of the road, follow the driveway and signs to the parking lot and Visitors Center.
December, January and February hours will be 7 AM to 2 PM. Last entry is 30 minutes before closing.
If you have 2011 bird calendars which you would like to recycle we will be happy to recycle them and use them for our educational displays. Please send them to “The City of Henderson Bird Viewing Preserve, 240 Water Street, PO Box 95050, Henderson, Nevada, 89009-5050″. Thank you!
We had (63) species observed this week. The following birds were seen or heard by staff and visitors at the Henderson Bird Viewing Preserve east of Las Vegas:
Canada Goose Snow Goose Wood Duck Gadwall Mallard Cinnamon Teal Northern Shoveler Northern Pintail Green-winged Teal Canvasback Redhead Ring-necked Duck Lesser Scaup Bufflehead Common Goldeneye Ruddy Duck – Some males starting to get blue bills. Gambel’s Quail Pied-billed Grebe Eared Grebe Western Grebe Clark’s Grebe Least Bittern Snowy Egret Black-crowned Night-heron Northern Harrier Red-tailed Hawk Merlin Peregrine Falcon Sora Virginia Rail Common Gallinule (Formerly Common Moorhen) American Coot Killdeer Western Sandpiper Least Sandpiper Ring-billed Gull California Gull Greater Roadrunner Anna’s Hummingbird Costa’s Hummingbird Black Phoebe Say’s Phoebe Cassin’s Kingbird Loggerhead Shrike Tree Swallow Verdin Bushtit Bewick’s Wren Marsh Wren Ruby-crowned Kinglet American Robin Black-tailed Gnatcatcher Crissal Thrasher American Pipit Orange-crowned Warbler Yellow-rumped Warbler (Audubon’s) Abert’s Towhee Savannah Sparrow Song Sparrow Swamp Sparrow White-crowned Sparrow Red-winged Blackbird Great-tailed Grackle House Finch
Happy Birding!
Randy Michal
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