Silverwood Lake is a reservoir, backed up behind the Cedar Springs Dam, on the north side of the San Bernardino Mountains along the West Fork Mojave River at an elevation of 3,355 feet. It has a capacity to hold 73,000 acre feet of water and has a surface area of 976 acres. It is three miles long, from corner to corner and has a maximum depth of 166 feet. It is owned by the California State Water Project and is filled with water from the California aqueduct which brings it from northern California.
I've visited twice this year birding, in particular looking for common mergansers. I didn't find them on the first visit in January, but did on my second visit in March. My activity there has been located near the marina and the beaches located to the west of it. Following are photos of some animals, mostly birds, that I've photographed:
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| Brewer's blackbird |
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| Brewer's blackbird |
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| California gull |
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| Canada goose - landing. |
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| Dark-eyed junco |
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| Double-crested cormorant |
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| Eared grebe |
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| Gadwall (duck) |
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| Great blue heron |
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| Mallards (ducks) |
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| Ruddy ducks |
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| Greater scaup (ducks) |
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| Lesser scaup (duck) |
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| Hooded mergansers (ducks) - females |
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| Male and females |
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| Bufflehead (duck) - male |
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| Bufflehead - female |
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| California ground squirrel |
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| Common mergansers (ducks) |
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| Woodhouse's scrub-jay |
When we lived in Crestline we would go out there.
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