Yard Birds

That's right folks! I am a birder and this is the list of the Birds I have seen at or around my current home. I have lived here less than a year. I am excited to see what my new yard will bring.




Common Birds
*House Finch
*House Sparrow
*Black-billed Magpie
*Mourning Dove
*European Starling
*California Quail
*American Robin
*Northern Flicker
*Spotted Towhee
*Downy Woodpecker
*Song Sparrow
*Red-breasted Nuthatch

Seasonal/Migrant Birds
*Common Night Hawk-HO
*Cassin's Vireo(9/2009)
*MacGillivray's Warbler
*Barn Swallow
*Pine Siskin (9/2009-4/2010)
*American Goldfinch
*Lesser Goldfinch (4/2010)
*Great Blue Heron -FO
*Ruby-crowned Kinglet (11/2009, 4/2010)
*Blue-grey Gnatcatcher
*Black-chinned Hummingbird
*Hermit Thrush (4/2010)
*Canada Goose- FO
*Bullocks Oriole (5/2010)
*Lazuli Bunting (5/2010)
*Townsend's Solitaire (5/2010)
*Yellow-rumped Warbler (4/2010)
*Orange-crowned Warbler (4/2010)
*White-crowned sparrow (5/2010)

Rare Birds

* White-throated  sparrow (11/2009-3/29/2010)
 (Here is a post I wrote about this neat bird and how excited I was to see it.
*Golden-crowned Kinglet (12/05/2010)














Mamals
* White-tailed Deer
* Squirrel?


Acronym help: HO = Heard only; FO = Flew over

"Nomina si nescis, perit et cognitio rerum."  

Linnaeus, 1707-1778.  

"If you don't know the names, even knowledge of the things themselves will pass away."