Scripps Pier Beach Walk
2013-09-27
Location: La Jolla Shores, around Scripps Pier
Time: Early Afternoon
Purpose: Photograph and Identify Shorebirds
Sightings: Several non-native cultivated plants, a few intertidal invertebrates, Marbled Godwit, Western Willet, and Whimbrels, along with some sandpipers I just can't pin down. Also both Western and Heerman's Gulls.
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Pride of Madeira (Echium candicans)Observer
durieudmDescription
Not sure if ths individual was purposely planted, but it has definitely been actively maintained so I tagged it as cultivated.
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Great Basin Fence Lizard (Sceloporus occidentalis ssp. longipes)Observer
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Common Lantana (Lantana camara)Observer
durieudmDescription
Naturalized inside a patch of other, cultivated, flowers.
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Broad-leaved Paperbark (Melaleuca quinquenervia)Observer
durieudmDescription
A red-flowered Melaleuca. May or may not be cultivated, but I marked it as such.
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Marbled Godwit (Limosa fedoa)Observer
durieudmDescription
Part of an aggregation of 7 individuals.
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Spotted Sandpiper (Actitis macularius)Observer
durieudmDescription
This bird seemed like it was dancing, it's rear end bobbing up and down regularly.
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