Wildlife at My House

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And the count for 2009 is 30 species of bird in my garden (29 visible ones, I only heard the barred owls this year, didn't see any). Mammalian visitors were raccoons, coyotes, black-tailed deer, Douglas squirrels, grey squirrels, long-tailed weasel and deer mouse (those last unfortunately turning up inside the house now and then, as usual) and bats. I am not remotely good enough at identifying dark things flying in the dark to try and put a species on the bats.


Red-Tailed Hawk
Barred Owl (heard)
Anna's Hummingbird
Rufous Hummingbird
Northern Flicker
Downy Woodpecker
Hairy Woodpecker
Pileated Woodpecker
Red-Breasted Sapsucker
Steller's Jay
American Crow
Black-Capped Chickadee
Chestnut-Backed Chickadee
Bushtit
Red-Breasted Nuthatch
Brown Creeper
Bewick's Wren
Golden-Crowned Kinglet
Ruby-Crowned Kinglet
Varied Thrush
American Robin
Swainson's Thrush
Townsend's Warbler
Black-Headed Grosbeak
Spotted Towhee
Song Sparrow
Dark-Eyed Junco
House Finch
American Goldfinch
Pine siskin

Missing from the list that were here last year - Band-Tailed Pigeon and White-Crowned Sparrow, both of which prefer more open land than I have.

Total yard bird list ever now stands at 39, with bald eagle, Cooper's Hawk, merlin, winter wren, yellow warbler, fox sparrow and evening grosbeak seen in previous years.