Backyard Birder

Menlo Park, California
N 37.4°,  W 122.2°
elev. 72'

(page numbers refer to The Sibley Guide to Birds, first edition, 2000)

In our yard
Cedar waxwing   great numbers srtip our holly trees of berries
     each holiday season

p.423
Chickadee, chestnut-backed   central California coast variant,
seen from Marin County southward

p.377
Dove, mourning I'd never noticed the pale blue eye ring until I
     took this picture.

p.255
Dove, ruddy ground   p.259
Finch, house   p.529
Flicker, northern   p.318
Goldfinch, American   p.535
Goldfinch, lesser   p.535
Jay, western scrub p.352
Jay, Steller's used to be uncommon here (usually seen
     in the Sierra); now they are plentiful and
     outnumber the scrub jays

p.351
Junco, dark-eyed (Oregon variant)   p.500
Mockingbird, northern   p.411
Oriole, hooded   p.520
Owl, great horned   p.274
Quail, California  

p.138
Robin, leucistic

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 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leucistic      

5/23/09
Tanager, western

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 5/31/09

p.463
Titmouse, oak   p.372
Thrasher, California   common in the past, now rarely seen

p.414
                                                                 

Towhee, California                                        

                                                                 

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 7/9/09                                                       

p.476
Towhee, rufous-sided (spotted)   p.474
Warbler, Townsend's   in patio pomegranate

3/2/10

p.438
Woodpecker, Nuttall's   p.316
Wren, Bewick's   had one in my dining room; he was gently
eased to the door with a broom and
flew away unscathed (7/1310)

p. 385

 

In our neighborhood
Hawk, red-tailed (juvenile)

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 at the top of our neighbor's redwood          

7/9/09

pp.122-23
Sapsucker, yellow-bellied                           


Picture by David R. Moore

 on an acacia next to San Francisquito      
Creek  
(unusual on west coast)

12/09

p.311

 

In the Palo Alto/Menlo Park wetlands
Avocet, American 3/10/10

p.169
Ibis, white-faced (pre-mating season)

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 pre-mating season, and thus the absence
of the white eye patch

3/10/10

p.67
Stilt, black-necked 3/10/10

p.169

 

The "Dish" (hills behind Stanford)
Blackbird, red-winged                                                                      p.513                                                         
Bluebird, western                                       p.401
Egret, great   p.61
Harrier, northern   p.108
Heron, great blue   p.60
Meadowlark, western   p.508

 

peter@windhorst.org