Ruby-crowned kinglet warning me off his peanuts. -EO
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December 2013
12/30/2013
12/23/2013
California towhees
I haven't been able to do my usual birdwalks for a few weeks thanks to snow and ice. I knew populations were moving and things were probably changing. Today, where I normally see golden-crowned sparrows, I saw California towhees. Tons of them, all through the blackberries in a meadow. These are year-round residents, but I have only seen one before, briefly, in my garden last spring. -EO
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12/20/2013
Common Raven
The Common Raven is a distinctly uncommon- looking bird. This one gathered itself in the top of a Douglas fir before setting off with its wide, pointed wings for a soar into the distance. I didn't get a picture that did this bird justice, but this shot came closest to doing so./KO
12/12/2013
Rhododendron Afflicted by Frozen Fog
Birds are being challenged by what is now our week-long cold snap that has been from 5 degrees F up to only 25 degrees F and that peak was brief./KO
Black-capped Chickadee Lifting off a Snowy Branch
At 15 degrees F. the birds are eating voraciously./KO
Still life with sapsucker
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These guys are shy, but always around in the shadows and on the edges. Today for the first time, one visited the peanuts for a feast. -EO
12/07/2013
Snow day
The snow brought all the birds out. Among them were: a man house finch (above) and his mate (below).
... plus Steller's jays, fighting over suet.
... plus intrepid kinglets. One landed on a branch above a jay, many times its size, flashed its terrifying ruby crown, and scared the jay away. Then it hit up the suet.
... plus mourning doves. This one is having a nap after a hard day eating seeds.
12/06/2013
Varied Thrush Eating Cotoneaster Berries
First snow of the season and it's unusually cold for us here. The birds are showing up at the feeders while robins are sitting in the naked oaks while it snows./ko
Snow birds
Snow brings the birds out.
Ruby-crowned kinglet
Anna's hummingbird
Female lesser goldfinch
and her man.
-EO
Birds on this Blog
- Chestnut-backed chickadee
- Western grebe
- Oak titmouse
- Green Heron (juvenile)
- Western kingbird
- Brewer's blackbird
- Red-winged blackbird
- California gnatcatcher
- Hutton's vireo
- Cliff Swallows
- Northern rough-winged swallow
- Cassin's vireo
- Yellow-rumped warbler
- Eurasian collared dove
- Violet-green Swallows
- Red-shouldered hawk
- Purple Finch, female
- Cooper's hawk
- Western bluebird
- American Coot
- Golden-crowned kinglet
- Varied thrush
- Hermit thrush
- White-tailed kite
- European Starling
- Bushtit
- Fox sparrow
- Winter wren
- Ruby-crowned kinglet
- Black phoebe
- Bald Eagles
- American wigeon
- Solitary Sandpiper
- Osprey
- Townsend's Warbler
- Yellow warbler
- Song Sparrow
- Belted Kingfisher
- Raven
- Mallard
- California Quail
- Acorn woodpecker
- Red-tailed hawk
- Common Merganser
- Western Scrub-Jay
- Western Wood-Pewee
- Spotted Sandpiper
- Great Egret
- Cedar waxwing
- Great blue heron
- Canada goose
- Black-Throated Gray Warbler
- Bullock's oriole
- Brown creeper
- MacGillivray's Warbler
- Chipping sparrow
- Yellow-breasted chat
- Western tanager
- Evening Grosbeak Male
- American goldfinch
- Ash-throated Flycatcher
- American Crow
- Brown-headed Cowbird
- Lazuli bunting
- Black-headed grosbeak
- Turkey vulture
- White-crowned sparrow
- Orange-crowned warbler
- California Towhee
- Golden-Crowned Sparrow
- Pine siskin
- Red-breasted nuthatch
- American robin
- Mourning dove
- Northern Flicker
- Pileated Woodpecker
- Hairy Woodpecker, male
- Steller's Jay
- Spotted Towhee
- Black-capped chickadee
- Downy Woodpecker, female
- Dark-eyed Junco
- Red-breasted Sapsucker
- Wild Turkey
- Lesser Goldfinch
- Anna's Hummingbird
- Rufous Hummingbird
- Sharp-shinned Hawk
- Purple Finch
- House Finch
- White-breasted Nuthatch
- Tree Swallow
Coastal Birds (So Oregon & No Cal
- Western Grebe
- Common Murre
- Pelagic Cormorant
- Brandt's Cormorant
- Common Tern
- Peregrin FalconYaquina Head Outstanding Nature Area
- Black Oystercatcher
- Pigeon Guillemot
- Western Gull
- Herring Gul
- Thayer's Gull
- Brown Pelican
- California Gulls
