Birding Disneyland
Thursday, November 17th, 2005I recently spent a few days at the Disneyland Hotel in Anaheim California. Nominally I was speaking at the STARWest conference, but as usual it turned into a birding trip.
Disneyland is not as good a birding site as Disneyworld in Florida, but there were a few interesting birds. besides the usual invasives (House Sparrows, European Starlings, Rock Pigeons) ring-billed gulls were fairly common. I saw them flying over the parking lot at the Disneyland Hotel, and in California Adventure. The lagoon in California Adventure was also hosting one somewhat lost American Coot. Early in the morning Canada Geese migrated across the parking lot. And I found a pair of House Finches in the Disneyland Hotel Courtyard one morning while waiting for the coffee shop to open.
However the piece de resistance had to be the Cooper’s Hawk that landed in Downtown Disney while I was drinking my coffee about 8:00 A.M. on the final day of my stay.
