Wildlife at My House

[tiggymalvern]

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.

Comments

[darthhellokitty.livejournal.com]

We saw a bald eagle sitting on top of a street light on the 520 bridge last week. :-)

[teaforme.livejournal.com]

Do you get European Starlings? I have tons of Starlings around my place.

[tiggymalvern.livejournal.com]

They do that quite a lot - it's a good spot for digesting and watching for fish :-)

[tiggymalvern.livejournal.com]

No, thankfully! Our house is surrounded by woods, and starlings prefer more open spaces. Although I did come close last year - there was a starling one day sitting on the wires two houses along our street.

We don't get English house sparrows (or many sparrow species at all, come to that) for the same reason.

[lady-ganesh.livejournal.com]

Not seeing as much wildlife is the only real regret I have about living 'in town.'

[tiggymalvern.livejournal.com]

Mostly it's nice when they come to visit, though frankly I could live without the raccoons trying to knock down the bird feeders!

[darker-she-said.livejournal.com]

I knew you liked wildlife, but I didn't know you were a bird watcher. XD That's pretty cool.

Closest I've ever had to a bird feeder is a bat house on my porch, since birds don't really cuddle up to apartment third story balconies.

[tiggymalvern.livejournal.com]

I have my fingers in so many pies ;-) Though not many people would say birdwatching is cool XD

I need to get some batboxes put up (not that the birds have used the nesting boxes yet, but I can hope!)