Salton Sea

Dave and I spent Monday at the Salton Sea with shorebirds top of our list. It didn't turn out that way and, except for Killdeer and Black-necked Stilts, we didn't see any shorebirds until 2pm. But we had some luck with Least Bittern and my lifer Vaux's Swift in the reed beds at the end of Johnson Street in Mecca, Snowy Plovers at Bombay Beach, Black Skimmer and Bonaparte's Gulls at Sonny Bono NWR and Burrowing Owl along Vendel Road near Westmorland. In all I added 14 new species for the year to end on 217.