Pomona Valley Audubon - Southern California
Local Birding Locations!
Chino dairy preserve area
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Pomona Valley Audubon - Southern California
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In preserving the agricultural openspace (fields, dairy ponds and waterways) in the Chino dairy preserve, our wintering raptors, egrets and waterfowl are benefited as well as our getting-harder-to-find burrowing owls and shore birds. This winter route is a collection of small but sometimes rich and varied spots that require little or no walking.
| A | The fields around the Chino airport & thruout the area often host numbers of hawks (check telephone poles for Feruginous and Swainsons as well as Golden Eagle, Prairie Falcon, Merlin and White shouldered Kite among the Redtails and Kestrals), gulls, White-faced Ibis, American Pipit, phoebes, sparrows, blackbirds (watch for the occasional Yellow headed, Tri-colored and Grackel), etc. | |
| B | Burrowing owl may (if you are lucky!) be found sitting on the ground near their burrows around the Chino airport, fairgrounds, and prisons. | |
| C | There are several dairy ponds (where runoff is collected, diluted
and leached) in the area that collect shore birds, puddle ducks, egrets
and herons, etc. A quick look and a scope can offen yeild good finds. * north side of Merrill between Grove and Archibald. * |
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| D | The Swan Lake trailer park (private but they will often let you birdwatch
if you ask nicely) has a large lake to the left of and behind the club house
pool for their namesake black swans. The local wintering water fowl seem
to love it, too! ...and up close! Great for photography buffs! Canada Geese,
Widgeon (watch for lost Eurasians!), teal, night herons, egrets, etc. to
name only a few. * East side of Hamner between Bellegrave and Limonite. |
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| E | The south end of the Cucumonga Creek flood control canal opens out into willow riparian accessible from Hellman Ave. just north of Highway 71. This spot can be good year round with Yellow Throat, Song Sparrow, etc. Yellowrump, Spotted Sandpiper, Snipe and puddle ducks, etc. in the winter and other warblers and migrants fall and spring.
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| F | Tri-colored Blackbirds can sometimes be found... | |
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