| Finches -- House, Purple, Cassin's, pine
siskin (year-round) |
| Sparrows -- White Crowned, Golden Crowned
(fall through spring) |
| Titmouse -- (common year-round) |
| White Breasted Nuthatch -- (spring-fall) |
| Hermit Thrush -- (winter-spring) |
| Wren -- small (canyon?) (spring-early summer) |
| Junko -- "Oregon" winter-spring |
| Bush Tit -- (year-round) |
| Spotted towhee -- (late fall-spring) |
| Brown Towhee -- (common year-round) |
| Quail, California -- (common year-round) |
| Scrub Jay -- (common year-round) |
| Steller's Jay -- (uncommon at this elevation,
but sighted occasionally in our bull pine) |
| Hummingbirds -- (year-round, need specific
i.d.) |
| Robbin -- (late winter to mid-summer) |
| Hawks -- Coopers, red-tail (others need
i.d.) |
| California Thrasher -- (year-round, these
are our "mockingbirds") |
| Wood Duck -- (early spring-summer
on creek below or waddling around in yard looking for crickets) |
| Mallard -- (early spring-summer until creek
dries) |
| Coot -- (ditto) |
| Great Blue Heron -- (ditto) |
| Green Heron -- (ditto) |
| Belted Kingfisher -- (ditto) |
| Turkey Vulture -- (year-round, tend to
circle dog while she's dozing) |
| Acorn woodpecker -- (year round, in our
oaks mostly summer-fall) |
| Nutall's Woodpecker -- (spring-fall) |
| Common Flicker -- (year-round) |
| Red-naped Sapsucker -- (rarer, mostly spring) |
| Raven -- (year-round) |
| Screech Owl -- (year-round) |
| Vireo -- (mostly spring, need exact i.d.) |
| Cedar Waxwing -- (spring, early summer) |
| Warbler, Audubon (I think) -- (late winter-early
summer) |
| Western Kingbird -- (year-round, more in
late winter-spring) |
| Blackheaded Grossbeak -- (spring-summer,visits
feeder) |
| Western Tananger -- (late winter-summer) |
| Western Bluebird -- (year-round, in our
oaks mostly in winter) |
| Ash-throated flycatcher -- (spring-summer) |
| Yellow-rumped warbler -- (spring- early
summer) |
| Lesser Goldfinch -- (year-round?) |
| Mourning dove -- (year-round)
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| Phainopepla -- (spring, eating toyon berries) |
| Bald Eagle -- (winter, soaring over Ecker
Ranch) |
| Golden Eagle (many sightings, soaring
over gun club) |
| Brown Creeper -- (late fall) |
| (A good online source for California
bird photos is the UC Berkeley collection.) |
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