Now Playing: birdwatching in my backyard
Topic: Other Hobbies
There is a certain fascination with birds, and I watch for different ones wherever I go. Around my own area I log in my copy of Familiar Birds of the Northwest (Harry B Nehls) with the date, location, and something about their activities. I log each bird only once - the first sighting.
We have just over 2 1/3 acres of countryside with a creek, scrub, conifers, fruit trees, pasture, some hardwoods, and 200 feet of the Oregon Trail. On this property, since moving here in 1989, I have observed (*most common marked by stars):
*Great Blue Heron
Mallard
Turkey Vulture
Sharp-shinned Hawk
*Red-tailed Hawk
Blue Grouse
*California Quail
Ring-necked Pheasant
Killdeer
*Mourning Dove
Short-eared Owl
*Rufous Hummingbird
*Red-shafted Flicker
Pileated Woodpecker
*Downy Woodpecker
Red-breasted Sapsucker
Williamson's Sapsucker
Ash-throated Flycatcher
*Stellar's Jay
*Scrub Jay
*Common Crow
Black-capped Chickadee
Bushtit
*Varied Thrush
*American Robin
Cedar Waxwing
European Starling
*House Sparrow
Red-winged Blackbird
Brown-headed Cowbird
Brewer's Blackbird
Western Tanager
American Goldfinch
*House Finch
Rufous-sided Towhee
*Oregon Junco
Golden-crowned Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow
Barn Swallows
More wildlife tomorrow!
