Life and Yard Birds this weekend
It's been an amazing weekend in my yard.
The recent rains have cause spring to really spring - the serviceberry, crabapple, lilacs, cherry, apple, basket of gold alyssum and tulips are all in full bloom.
There are 3 Western Chorus Frogs singing from my little 5' diameter garden pond.
And the birds are just falling out of the sky into my yard.
Here's the list for this weekend (FOS - first of spring; LB - Life Bird; YB - Yard Bird First):
Swainson's Hawk
American Kestrel
Mourning Dove
Eurasian Collared Dove
Rock Pigeon
Red-shafted Flicker
Western Kingbird (FOS)
Blue Jay
Barn Swallow (FOS)
Black-capped Chickadee
American Robin
Brown Thrasher (FOS)
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Tennessee Warbler (YB)
Indigo Bunting (likely, not confirmed, had one quick, very wet look)(YB)
Spotted Towhee
Green-tailed Towhee
Clay-colored Sparrow (LB, YB)
Chipping Sparrow (FOS)
Vesper Sparrow (LB, YB)
White-crowned Sparrow
Western Meadowlark
Brown-headed Cowbird
Red-winged Blackbird
Brewer's Blackbird
Common Grackle
House Finch
Pine Siskin (FOS)
American Goldfinch
House Sparrow
The recent rains have cause spring to really spring - the serviceberry, crabapple, lilacs, cherry, apple, basket of gold alyssum and tulips are all in full bloom.
There are 3 Western Chorus Frogs singing from my little 5' diameter garden pond.
And the birds are just falling out of the sky into my yard.
Here's the list for this weekend (FOS - first of spring; LB - Life Bird; YB - Yard Bird First):
Swainson's Hawk
American Kestrel
Mourning Dove
Eurasian Collared Dove
Rock Pigeon
Red-shafted Flicker
Western Kingbird (FOS)
Blue Jay
Barn Swallow (FOS)
Black-capped Chickadee
American Robin
Brown Thrasher (FOS)
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Tennessee Warbler (YB)
Indigo Bunting (likely, not confirmed, had one quick, very wet look)(YB)
Spotted Towhee
Green-tailed Towhee
Clay-colored Sparrow (LB, YB)
Chipping Sparrow (FOS)
Vesper Sparrow (LB, YB)
White-crowned Sparrow
Western Meadowlark
Brown-headed Cowbird
Red-winged Blackbird
Brewer's Blackbird
Common Grackle
House Finch
Pine Siskin (FOS)
American Goldfinch
House Sparrow
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Comment by ARDonoghue on June 8, 2009 at 1:32pm
- If you put up a thistle (nyger) feeder you will have goldfinches too! And siskins!
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Comment by Pat Gaines on June 8, 2009 at 11:05am - Oh - so that's what you see in your backyard! That's quite a list! Especially impressed with the indigo bunting, towhees and goldfinch!
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