Sunday, July 15, 2012

birds i saw

i've seen a lot of birds in the past year, and not just robins, american crows, rock doves and various gulls. also not counting the zoo: snow goose, canada goose, wood duck, mallard, surf scoter, bufflehead, goldeneye, common merganser, california quail, common loon, brandt's cormorant, double-crested cormorant, pelagic cormorant, great blue heron, turkey vulture, bald eagle, cooper's hawk, red-tailed hawk, peregrine falcon, coot, killdeer, caspian tern, pigeon guillemot, rhinoceros auklet, mourning dove, vaux's swift, anna's hummingbird, rufous hummingbird, belted kingfisher, red-breasted sapsucker, downy woodpecker, hairy woodpecker, northern flicker, pileated woodpecker, steller's jay, western scrub jay, raven, magpie, tree swallow, barn swallow, violet-green swallow, black-capped chickadee, chestnut-backed chickadee, brown creeper, bewick's wren, canyon wren, swainson's thrush, european starling, yellow warbler, townsend's warbler, spotted towhee, chipping sparrow, savannah sparrow, song sparrow, white-crowned sparow, house sparrow, dark-eyed junco, western tanager, black-headed grosbeak, red-winged blackbird, brewer's blackbird, purple finch, house finch, and american goldfinch. 
good spottin'!

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