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Species found at Viewing Site
| Folsom Lake State Recreation Area, Willow Creek - Site # 251 | |
| Species: | Acorn Woodpecker |
| Seen: | Yes |
| Locations: | Where ever there are oak trees. |
| Present Season: | Yr |
| Season View: | Yr |
| Reliable: | Excellent |
| Species: | American White Pelican |
| Seen: | Yes |
| Locations: | during spring migration, usually mid tothe end of March in Folsom Lake State Recreation Area from Beals Point. |
| Present Season: | Sp,Yr |
| Season View: | Sp,Yr |
| Reliable: | Poor |
| Species: | Black-Tailed Jackrabbit |
| Seen: | Yes |
| Locations: | Folsom Lake drawdown zone. Folsom Point, Beals Point. Grass and chaparrel areas. |
| Present Season: | Yr |
| Season View: | Yr |
| Reliable: | Poor |
| Species: | Double-Crested Cormorant |
| Seen: | Yes |
| Locations: | Lake Natoma |
| Present Season: | Sp |
| Season View: | Sp,Yr |
| Reliable: | Excellent |
| Species: | Glaucous-Winged Gull |
| Seen: | No |
| Locations: | Lake Natoma |
| Present Season: | W,F |
| Season View: | W,F |
| Reliable: | Poor |
| Species: | Great Blue Heron |
| Seen: | No |
| Locations: | Lake Natoma |
| Present Season: | W,Sp,Su,F,Yr |
| Season View: | Sp,Su,F |
| Reliable: | Good |
| Species: | Great Egret |
| Seen: | No |
| Locations: | Lake Natoma |
| Present Season: | Sp,Su,F,Yr |
| Season View: | Sp,Su,F |
| Reliable: | Good |
| Species: | Herring Gull |
| Seen: | Yes |
| Locations: | Lake Natoma, Folsom Lake |
| Present Season: | W,Yr |
| Season View: | W |
| Reliable: | Poor |
| Species: | Hutton's Vireo |
| Seen: | Yes |
| Locations: | Lake Natoma, Folsom Lake |
| Present Season: | Yr |
| Season View: | Yr |
| Reliable: | Poor |
| Species: | Lesser Black-Backed Gull |
| Seen: | Yes |
| Locations: | Folsom Lake- one sighting only - vagrant |
| Present Season: | W |
| Season View: | W |
| Reliable: | Poor |
| Species: | Lesser Black-Backed Gull |
| Seen: | Yes |
| Locations: | Folsom Lake- one sighting only |
| Present Season: | W |
| Season View: | W |
| Reliable: | Poor |
| Species: | Loggerhead Shrike |
| Seen: | Yes |
| Locations: | Grasslands near oaks. Mormon Island off of Green Valley Roak |
| Present Season: | Yr |
| Season View: | Yr |
| Reliable: | Poor |
| Species: | Mourning Dove |
| Seen: | Yes |
| Locations: | Common in all habitats but ot open water. |
| Present Season: | Yr |
| Season View: | Yr |
| Reliable: | Good |
| Species: | Northern Mockingbird |
| Seen: | Yes |
| Locations: | Common in all habitats next to urban areas. |
| Present Season: | Yr |
| Season View: | Yr |
| Reliable: | Good |
| Species: | Northern Saw-Whet Owl |
| Seen: | Yes |
| Locations: | This owl can be heard, not necessarily seen, throughout the live and blue oak woodlands at night. |
| Present Season: | Yr |
| Season View: | Yr |
| Reliable: | Poor |
| Species: | Oak Titmouse |
| Seen: | Yes |
| Locations: | Throughout the oak woodlands. |
| Present Season: | Yr |
| Season View: | Yr |
| Reliable: | Good |
| Species: | Osprey |
| Seen: | Yes |
| Locations: | Flying over Lake Natoma and Folsom Lake. |
| Present Season: | W |
| Season View: | W |
| Reliable: | Poor |
| Species: | Red-Shouldered Hawk |
| Seen: | Yes |
| Locations: | Many locations. The most common hawk in the park. |
| Present Season: | Yr |
| Season View: | Yr |
| Reliable: | Good |
| Species: | Red-Winged Blackbird |
| Seen: | Yes |
| Locations: | Mormon Island wetland off of Green Valley Road in Folsom Lake State Recreation Area |
| Present Season: | Sp |
| Season View: | Sp |
| Reliable: | Good |
| Species: | Rock Wren |
| Seen: | Yes |
| Locations: | Along the rock-slope protection areas of shoreline of Folsom Lake especially the road from the Granite Bay entrance north(Douglass Blvd). |
| Present Season: | W,Sp |
| Season View: | W,Sp |
| Reliable: | Good |
| Species: | Ruddy Duck |
| Seen: | Yes |
| Locations: | Folsom Lake during migration. |
| Present Season: | W |
| Season View: | W |
| Reliable: | Poor |
| Species: | Rufous-Crowned Sparrow |
| Seen: | Yes |
| Locations: | Folsom Lake in rock-slope protection along the road north from the Granite Bay kiosk. |
| Present Season: | W,Sp |
| Season View: | W,Sp |
| Reliable: | Good |
| Species: | Turkey Vulture |
| Seen: | Yes |
| Locations: | Year-round but especially high numbers during fall migration in October. |
| Present Season: | W,Sp,Su,F,Yr |
| Season View: | W |
| Reliable: | Excellent |
| Species: | Western Bluebird |
| Seen: | Yes |
| Locations: | Grassland/oaksavana |
| Present Season: | W,Sp,Su,F,Yr |
| Season View: | W,Sp,Su,F,Yr |
| Reliable: | Good |
| Species: | Western Grebe |
| Seen: | Yes |
| Locations: | On Folsom Lake |
| Present Season: | W,Yr |
| Season View: | W,Yr |
| Reliable: | Good |
| Species: | Western Kingbird |
| Seen: | Yes |
| Locations: | grassland oakwoodland |
| Present Season: | Sp,Yr |
| Season View: | Sp,Yr |
| Reliable: | Good |
| Species: | Western Meadowlark |
| Seen: | Yes |
| Locations: | grassland oakwoodland |
| Present Season: | Sp,Yr |
| Season View: | Sp,Yr |
| Reliable: | Good |
| Species: | Western Screech Owl |
| Seen: | Yes |
| Locations: | heard oakwoodland |
| Present Season: | W,Sp,Yr |
| Season View: | W,Sp,Yr |
| Reliable: | Poor |
| Species: | Western Scrub-Jay |
| Seen: | Yes |
| Locations: | oakwoodland |
| Present Season: | W,Sp,Su,F,Yr |
| Season View: | W,Sp,Su,F,Yr |
| Reliable: | Excellent |
| Species: | Western Wood-Pewee |
| Seen: | Yes |
| Locations: | oakwoodland |
| Present Season: | Yr |
| Season View: | Sp,Su,F,Yr |
| Reliable: | Poor |
| Species: | Western Wood-Pewee |
| Seen: | Yes |
| Locations: | oakwoodland, riparian |
| Present Season: | Yr |
| Season View: | Sp,Su,F,Yr |
| Reliable: | Poor |
| Species: | White-Crowned Sparrow |
| Seen: | Yes |
| Locations: | oakwoodland, riparian |
| Present Season: | W |
| Season View: | W |
| Reliable: | Good |
| Species: | White-Tailed Kite |
| Seen: | Yes |
| Locations: | grassland oakwoodland. Iron Point, Peninsula. |
| Present Season: | Sp,Su,F |
| Season View: | Sp,Su,F |
| Reliable: | Good |
| Species: | Wild Turkey |
| Seen: | Yes |
| Locations: | grassland oakwoodland. |
| Present Season: | Yr |
| Season View: | Sp,Su |
| Reliable: | Excellent |
| Species: | Winter Wren |
| Seen: | Yes |
| Locations: | grassland oakwoodland. |
| Present Season: | Yr |
| Season View: | W,Sp,Su,F |
| Reliable: | Poor |
| Species: | Wood Duck |
| Seen: | Yes |
| Locations: | small ponds most of the year. Folsom Lake in winter. |
| Present Season: | W,Yr |
| Season View: | W,Yr |
| Reliable: | Poor |
| Species: | Wrentit |
| Seen: | Yes |
| Locations: | Chaparrel- Salmon Falls Bridge and Darrington trail. |
| Present Season: | Yr |
| Season View: | Yr |
| Reliable: | Poor |
| Species: | Yellow Warbler |
| Seen: | Yes |
| Locations: | Mormon Island Wetland riparian area. |
| Present Season: | Sp |
| Season View: | Sp |
| Reliable: | Poor |
| Species: | Yellow-Breasted Chat |
| Seen: | Yes |
| Locations: | Sweetwater Creek access, propably Mormon Island Wetland riparian area, Beals to Granit Bay trail by the Beals RV Park in riparian only. |
| Present Season: | Sp |
| Season View: | Sp |
| Reliable: | Poor |