
My goal for 2019 is to see as many bird species as possible in the 5-mile radius around my home. 185 species is the lofty number I am shooting for, or 75% of total birds seen in the county in the year. I will also be doing this all by bike or walking.
Wish me luck!
- Anna’s hummingbird – 1/1/2019
- Song Sparrow
- White-crowned Sparrow
- House Finch
- Golden-crowned Sparrow
- Northern Flicker
- California Scrub-Jay
- American Crow
- Black-capped Chickadee
- Dark-eyed Junco
- Cackling Goose
- Rock Pigeon
- Merlin
- Red-breasted Nuthatch
- Bewick’s Wren
- Ruby-crowned Kinglet
- Varied Thrush
- American Robin
- Red-winged Blackbird
- Yellow-rumped Warbler
- House Sparrow
- Ring-billed Gull
- Western Gull
- Herring Gull
- Iceland Gull
- Glaucus-winged Gull
- European Starling
- Lesser Goldfinch
- Spotted Towhee
- Mallard – 1/2/2019
- Bufflehead
- Hooded Merganser
- Golden-crowned Kinglet
- Pied-billed Grebe
- Ring-necked Duck
- Redhead
- Bushtit
- Fox Sparrow – 1/3/2019
- American Goldfinch – 1/4/2019
- Lincoln’s Sparrow
- Eastern Bluebird
- Cedar Waxwing
- Canada Goose
- Northern Shoveler
- Black Phoebe
- Gadwall
- Common Goldeneye
- Great Blue Heron
- Red-tailed Hawk
- Belted Kingfisher
- Brown Creeper
- Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
- Pine Siskin
- Downy Woodpecker
- Greater Scaup
- Common Merganser
- Horned Grebe
- Western Grebe
- Mew Gull
- Double-crested Cormorant
- American Pipit
- American Kestrel
- Cooper’s Hawk
- Stellar’s Jay – 1/6/2019
- Green-winged Teal – 1/8/2019
- American Wigeon
- Eurasian Wigeon
- Mourning Dove – 1/9/2019
- Northern Harrier – 1/13/2019
- Northern Shrike
- Chestnut-backed Chickadee
- Pacific Wren
- Lesser Scaup
- Killdeer
- California Gull
- Common Loon
- Eurasian Collared-Dove
- Spotted Sandpiper
- Great Horned Owl
- Great Egret
- Bald Eagle
- American Coot – 1/24/2019
- Short-eared Owl – 1/25/2019
- Barred Owl – 1/26/2019
- Hairy Woodpecker
- White-breasted nuthatch
- Hermit Thrush
- Wood Duck
- Wilson’s Snipe – 2/2/2019
- Red-breasted Sapsucker
- Orange-crowned Warbler
- Common Raven – 2/3/2019
- Western Bluebird
- Sharp-shinned Hawk – 2/9/2019
- Townsend’s Solitaire – 2/17/2019
- Canvasback
- Brewer’s Blackbird