{"id":1000476,"date":"2007-03-20T19:50:47","date_gmt":"2007-03-21T00:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/birding\/2007\/03\/25\/neary-lagoon\/"},"modified":"2008-09-03T09:46:36","modified_gmt":"2008-09-03T14:46:36","slug":"neary-lagoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/birding\/2007\/03\/20\/neary-lagoon\/","title":{"rendered":"Neary Lagoon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday I drove down to Santa Cruz with plans to do a little birding at various sites before my 2:30 P.M. appointment at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.parks.ca.gov\/?page_id=523\">A\u00c3\u00b1o Nuevo SR<\/a>. The first stop was Neary Lagoon, a small 15 acre wetland in the middle of a residential area in Santa Cruz. I arrived at 10:15 and stayed for about an hour. It&#8217;s a very pretty site in a place where you wouldn&#8217;t normally expect to find one. I&#8217;m glad they preserved this much, though apparently about 60 acres of the original lagoon have now been filled in and built up. <\/p>\n<p>Neary Lagoon is known for good waterfowl in winter, but winter leaves early in California, and the waterfowl were limited to Mallards, American Coots, and one presumably domestic-descended Muscovy Duck. I did, however, find some nice land birds including two California Quail:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image1000475\" src=\"http:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/caquails.JPG\" alt=\"Male and female California Quail\" width='640' height='465' \/><br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I also found a dozen plus Cedar Waxwings. I hadn&#8217;t realized these were possible in the West. other notable birds included Bushtit, Steller&#8217;s Jay,  Black-crowned Night-Heron, and Ruby-crowned Kinglet. (I looked very closely to make sure it wasn&#8217;t a Hutton&#8217;s Vireo. Then it flared its ruby crown at me and clinched the ID.)<\/p>\n<p>Total species count for the site was 23 (not including the Muscovy):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mallard<\/li>\n<li>California Quail<\/li>\n<li>Black-crowned Night-Heron<\/li>\n<li>American Coot<\/li>\n<li>Mourning Dove<\/li>\n<li>Black Phoebe<\/li>\n<li>Steller&#8217;s Jay<\/li>\n<li>Western Scrub-Jay<\/li>\n<li>American Crow<\/li>\n<li>Bushtit<\/li>\n<li>Marsh Wren<\/li>\n<li>Ruby-crowned Kinglet<\/li>\n<li>American Robin<\/li>\n<li>Northern Mockingbird<\/li>\n<li>European Starling<\/li>\n<li>Cedar Waxwing<\/li>\n<li>Yellow-rumped Warbler<\/li>\n<li>California Towhee<\/li>\n<li>Song Sparrow<\/li>\n<li>White-crowned Sparrow<\/li>\n<li>Golden-crowned Sparrow<\/li>\n<li>Brewer&#8217;s Blackbird<\/li>\n<li>American Goldfinch<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>2007-03-20 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday I drove down to Santa Cruz with plans to do a little birding at various sites before my 2:30 P.M. appointment at A\u00c3\u00b1o Nuevo SR. The first stop was Neary Lagoon, a small 15 acre wetland in the middle of a residential area in Santa Cruz. I arrived at 10:15 and stayed for about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[410],"class_list":["post-1000476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding","tag-flash"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1000476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1000476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1000476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1000476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}