Shoreline at Mountain View
Shoreline Reional Wildlife Area
3160 North Shoreline Boulevard Mountain View, CA
Mountain View, CA
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Shoreline at Mountain View is a story of recovery and renewal, as the park is partially on the site of an old landfill. Shoreline lake now provides a habitat for Scoters, Grebes, and Cormorants, as well as Summer populations of Forester's and Common Terns. Adobe Creek is a Winter home for White Pelicans, and Coast Casey Forebay has shorebirds, ducks, and a resident population of Barn Swallows. "Tern Island", in the middle of one of the ponds, has an annual nesting Tern population. The wooded area around the lake has Cedar Waxwings, Red-Tailed Hawks, as well as a resident family of Ravens!
Typical species include:
Ducks
Mallards, Green Winged Teals, blue Winged Teals, Cinnamon Teals. Northern Shovelers, Gadwalls, Pintails, American Wigeons, Eurasian Wigeons, Canvasback, Bufflehead, Common Goldeneye, Lesser Scaup, Greater Scaup, Ruddy Ducks
Gulls
California Gulls, Ring Beaked Gulls
Pelicans
WHite Pelicans, California Bown Pelicans
Cormorants
Double-crested Cormorants
Shorebirds
Greater Yellowlegs, Red-Necked Phalarope, Wester Sandpiper, Long-billed Curlew, Willet, Short-billed Dowitcher, Marbled Godwit, Black Bellied Plover, Black-necked stilt, American Avocet
Grebes
Pied Billed Grebe, Western Grebe, Clark's Grebe
Rails
American Coot, Common Moorhen, Bittern
Songbirds
Cedar Waxwings, Song Sparrows, Lincoln's Sparrows, Black-Crowned Sparrow, Golden-Crowned Sparrow, House Finch, American Goldfinch, Lesser Goldfinch
Swallows and Swifts
Cliff Swallows, Barn Swallows, Violet-Green Swallows, Vaux's Swifts
Hummingbirds
Anna's Hummingbird
