Heading Back

I drove back to Flagstaff on Monday September 20th making several stops along the way. Things started badly - I could not find any access to the Santa Cruz River ay Ina Road where 6 Blue-winged Teal ad been seen the day before; and I could not find the park-and-ride lot which supposedly allowed views of a pond which had Wood Ducks. My final stop in Tucson went better and I found the three Greater White-fronted Geese on the Arthur Pack Golf Course.

After stopping at Lee Lee Market, my next stop was by the Mesa Library on Dobson Road. The target bird was Hooded Merganser but the two birds reported on Sunday were not there. I did however pick up 5 year birds - all birds that I'd hoped to see at the Gilbert Water Ranch. That was my next stop, and I found these 5 birds and another 6 that were new for the year, including an unexpected Cattle Egret.

Cattle Egret

My next stop was Tempe Town Lake where I felt sure that I would see Brown Pelicann and Western Grebe and hoped to see a Horned Grebe reported the day before. Not only did I dip on the Horned Grebe, I also failed to find a pelican!

My final stop of the day was outside a school in the Arrowhead Lakes area in Glendale. I had trouble finding the school but not the drake Eurasian Wigeon in with no more than a dozen American Wigeon on the grass alongside a man-made fast-flowing creek.

Eurasian Wigeon

American Wigeon

I arrived home after my 4-day trip having added 78 birds for the year.

Sparrow Banding Day

On Sunday January 19th I joined 19 other volunteers for a day of sparrow banding at Davis Pasture. We spent six hours in the field, erecting three sets of temporary mist nets and then flushing birds in from both sides. We collected and banded over 30 birds, with two-thirds of these being Grasshopper Sparrows and the remainder split evenly between Baird's and Savannahs. We also flushed a flock og about 60 Chestnut-collared Longspur and saw a few of the sparrow's main predator - Northern Harriers.

The work was completed with enough time for another trip to Reid Park, but the noise and activity was similar to the day before and I again dipped on my main target. I did add a couple of year birds including Black-crowned Night Heron

Black-crowned Night-Heron

As the sun began to set I made a mad dash to John F. Kennedy Park to add Redhead to my year's list, following up on aosfrom the day before. I only stayed 5 minutes but managed to find a male Vermillion Flycatcher while I was there.

Patons, Florida & Madera Canyons and Reid Park

On Saturday January 18th I met Sandy and Ed at Paton's in Patagonia. I ran into longtime Flagstaff residents Sandy and Ed at Walnut Canyon the CBC and heard they were snowbirding in Patagonia for the month of January. We spent the best part of two hours at Paton's and enjoyed the large number and large variety of birds at the feeders there. The highlight was Paton's first Violet-crowned Hummingbird of 2014, a bird that showed up at hummingbird feeder #3 at 9am only to find it still frozen! We also had a Plumbeous Vireo that was not on the list of recent sightings. And I caught up with one bird that had eluded me in 2013, a Green-tailed Towhee.

After Paton's and an aborted trip to Patagonia Lake that was obviously busy, and a decision not to try for the skulky Sinaloa Wren at Tubac, we headed for Florida Canyon in search of Rufous-capped Warblers. I had tried for these and failed in 2012. When we arrived at the parking lot the news was good - two, perhaps three birds had been seen just past the dam and Ed & I hurried up the trail. Just past the dam two people were just leaving and showed us the exact spot where the birds had been. We sat and waited patiently and had lunch, but no luck. We then decided to head up the trail when a single Rufous-capped Warbler found us and scolded us from just 6 feet away. This was my first life bird of 2014 and a gorgeous one too!

Rufous-capped Warbler

I then said my goodbyes to ed and Sandy who headed back while I went to Madera Canyon. I was confident of finding Wild Turkey and Mexican Jay and hopeful of finding Arizona Woodpecker. I actually added all three of these birds at Santa Rita Lodge as well as my first Chipping Sparrows of 2014 and an unexpected Hepatic Tanager. I had another surprise while walking to the Kubo, the call of an Elegant Trogon! At the Kubo itself I saw a rather scrawny male Magnificent Hummingbird but just failed to properly see a Yellow-eyed Junco as it flew from a feeder and over the roof!

Wild Turkey

Mexican Jays

Arizona Woodpecker

Arriving back in Tucson at 4:45 I decided to take a stab at the Pine Warbler in Reid Park. I had been too tired to chase this yesterday but I heard that Tom & BB had found the bird after half an hour of searching. Arriving at Reid Park I found hundreds of people picnicking and playing ball with boomboxes blaring! I tried for half an hour but really couldn't hear any warbler chips and I left empty handed. I did luck out and found a Summer Tanager that I had heard about earlier in the day.
 

Summer Tanager

Sanat Cruz Flats, Tohono Chul Park and Sweetwater

On Friday January 17th I left my motel in Casa Grande and was birding on the Santa Cruz Flats not long after 8am. I had three target birds in mind, birds that I had seen when we drove the flats on December 7th. A search for Mountain Plovers at the turf farm was unsuccessful today (only Horned Larks and American Pipits) and Burrowing Owls and Crested Caracara were nowhere to be found.

However the 2 hours on the flats were pretty good. On December 7th I had looked for Sagebrush Sparrow at Sunland Gin and Harmon but failed; this time I found one very quickly.  I found a flooded field with a good sized group of Greater Yellowlegs and Long-billed Curlew and although raptors were not so abundant as last time, I had a Merlin perched close enough for a picture through the windscreen.

Merlin

  My next stop was a visit to Tohono Chul Park off Ina Road in Tucson. A posting had mentioned a Fox Sparrow at the Geology Wall and as this was a 'new' park for me it seemed worth a shot. I did not realize that this was not really a park, but a botanical garden with an entrance fee. But I paid up and spent an hour in the grounds enjoying the plants and adding a number of common desert birds to my year list.  Costa's Hummingbirds probably the best as they came very close.

My next stop was Sweetwater and my targets a bunch of common ducks missing form the Flagstaff area. This visit started in spectacular style with a friendly Sora and a cooperative Lincoln's Sparrow at the bridge!

Sora

Lincoln's Sparrow

The rest of the visit was much as expected with Northern Pintail, Gadwall, Green-winged Teal, Cinnamon Teal and Eared Grebe on the ponds. The biggest surprise was a Wilson's Warbler.

Shoveler

Northern Pintail

Green-winged Teal

Having dipped on the Burrowing Owl, I stopped by the auto glass place near Tucson Airport and found one hiding in its 'burrow'!

Heading South

I left Flagstaff at 2:30 on Thursday January 16th and drove to Casa Grande. On the way down I stopped at Granada Park in Phoenix hoping to see a Eurasian Wigeon that had been posted on the 14th. The bird had been chased but not seen by others on the 15th and someone had remarked that there are a lot of ponds in the area and it must move around. I had no luck but did get to see a small flock of Rosy-faced Lovebirds.

Cameron

On Saturday January 11th my wife and I drove to Cameron in hopes of getting the Rufous-backed Robin on my 2014 list. Jason and Tom had found two of this species in the courtyard on November 19th and I had dashed there and saw one on the 20th. Reports since then had been mainly of a single bird and the most recent reports had spoke of the lack of food. The Russian Olive fruits were gone and there did not seem to be much left.

We did not see the bird when we first arrived, but after a short trip to the seep and the bridge across the river bed, we found the bird when we returned. It was in the same place as a couple of earlier reports- feeding beneath a rose bush! The courtyard was pretty quiet but I added American Kestrel and Loggerhead Shrike for the year during the drive.

Bald Eagle Count

On Friday January 10th I did my usual route for the bald eagle count and I managed two adult birds this year, one at Lake Elaine and one at the Walnut Canyon Ponds. This was a little disappointing as we saw eagles in 6 places on the CBC - of course these were likely not 6 different birds. I did see an immature bald eagle near Little America on January 2nd and he was nowhere to be seen.

Walnut Canyon was a big disappointment. I drove all the way out there to find a helicopter being used to drop some heavy machinery into the canyon, and hardly a bird in sight! The only bird seen at the rim was a single Townsend's Solitaire.

Sedona CBC

On Saturday January 4th I led a team in a Coconino County patch of the Sedona CBC, from the Burger King to Poco Diablo along Oak Creek.

We did very well in the neighborhood along Brewer Road getting a large number of the common yard birds of Sedona including several Canyon Towhees - a bird I didn't get in 2013 until December 27th! Our stop at the Sedona Creative Life Center gave us an expected flock of Bushtit, and the RV Park had a large number of Red-naped Sapsuckers and Brown Creepers. We had an excellent morning up to that point, but things slowed down and Tlaquepaque, Poco Diablo and the Chapel area were all pretty slow. Of course this can expected with any big day; birds are less active in the afternoon and so you need to hit good areas early.

First Days of 2014

Northern Arizona birders have a tradition of posting their first three birds of the year on the sightings forum. Mine was very average - Mountain Chickadee, Dark-eyed Junco and House Finch. But I had a good morning of feeder watching with Pygmy and White-breasted Nuthatches making it onto my 2014 yard list earlier than expected. I had ten species at the feeders and a walk around the block added four more before we settled down to other things.

I was at work on the 2nd and 3rd but a detour en route to the FAC to swim on Thursday and a detour to the pond at Willow Bend on Friday added a few more species. Following the Sedona CBC - see another post - I took a quick trip to get Acorn Woodpecker on my year's list on Sunday and then on Tuesday 7th took a disappointing quick drive down to Mormon Lake where I added Rough-legged Hawk. The two birds seen on the CBC were still hanging around near the overlok.

The Year Ahead

The coming year is not as easy to contemplate as the past three years as this promises to be a year of change. We expect both our sons to be away in different states and our travel plans are vague at best.

I will aim for 7 new Arizona birds in 2014 taking me halfway to the magic 400 and will again set 250 as my Arizona goal. I will endeavor to get as many of these birds as possible by the end of May. Three difficult but possible SE Arizona birds are Sinaloa Wren, Rufous-capped Warbler and Five-striped Sparrow and I should try to get these in January.  I would also like to make an effort to get Black-billed Magpie, Gray Jay and Chukar on my Arizona list.  

My world goal is to see 500 species in 2014. I hope to get 50 lifers but this will depend on a number of things. I have a planned trip to northern Minnesota set for February where I will not get many lifers but should get some high quality birds. I am tempted to chase some game birds in Colorado in April or May but that will depend on other factors. It is possible for me to increase my life list to 570 ABA birds by the end of 2014.

My 2013 Birding Year

I ended the year with 709 species, a hundred more than my target due to more international travel than expected. My ABA total ended on 386 which was many more than in 2011 or 2012 due to my North Carolina bird tour (which replaced my planned trip to High Island, Texas). I could have reached 400.

I had some embarrassing omissions from my list – Grace’s Warbler, Ash-throated Flycatcher, Warbling Vireo, Green-tailed Towhee, Band-tailed Pigeon and Common Nighthawk had all been around in good numbers close to home. I missed Merlin on the Mormon Lake CBC although one of my team members had one! Bad weather stopped me heading to the Grand Canyon for Varied Thrush and California Condor, and I was bitten by a dog while heading to find Clark’s Nutcrackers. I forgot to go to Site Six to pick up and easy Red-necked Grebe. I missed Hammond’s Flycatcher and Tropical Kingbird when both should have been gettable, and I had no luck with American Dipper or Chestnut-collared Longspurs on my single attempts to get these. The year ran out before I could try for the Swamp Sparrow found at Picture Canyon on the Flagstaff CBC.

With some chasing at the end I reached my target of 250 species in Arizona, but only 5 were new state birds – Brown Booby, White-tailed Kite, Willet, Marbled Godwit and Bobolink  - but I got to see two previous heard only birds, Elf Owl and Elegant Trogon.  My Coconino county total of 140 was well down on the 181 from the previous year but I increased my county total by seven.

I had 55 lifers in 2013 including some long that were long wished for: Noisy Pitta, Freckled Duck, Cotton Pygmy-goose, Oriental Darter, Red-cockaded Woodpecker and Brown-headed Nuthatch. I also caught up with many eastern birds on my North Carolina trip, and got to enjoy Philip Island’s Penguin Parade for the third time. The best day of the year was my day with Lee where he delivered 3 species of pitta and two species of trogon!  

My year end totals are as follows:
 

Life List
ABA List	550
Arizona List	388
Coconino County List	257
Yard List	94

My 2013 Bird List

January 1st

Dark-eyed Junco
Hairy Woodpecker
Eurasian Collared Dove
Steller's Jay
Northern Flicker
House Sparrow
American Crow
Rock Pigeon
Pine Siskin
House Finch
Mallard
Canada Goose
American Wigeon
Northern Shoveler
Ruddy Duck
American Coot
Common Merganser
Bald Eagle
Great-tailed Grackle

January 2nd
Common Raven
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Belted Kingfisher
Pacific Wren
Canvasback
Ring-necked Duck
Redhead
Green-winged Teal

January 3rd
American Goldfinch
Bufflehead
European Starling
Red-tailed Hawk
American Robin
Western Bluebird
Mountain Chickadee
Juniper Titmouse
White-breasted Nuthatch
Townsend's Solitaire

January 4th
Acorn Woodpecker
Northern Pintail
Great Blue Heron
Pied-billed Grebe

January 5th
Eared Grebe
Western Grebe
Bown Pelican
Double-crested Cormorant
Mourning Dove
Inca Dove
Black Phoebe
Verdin
Curve-billed Thrasher
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Western Meadowlark

January 6th
Snow Goose
Ross's Goose
Cinnamon Teal
Great Egret
Snowy Egret
Neotropic Cormorant
Killdeer
Black-necked Stilt
American Avocet
Lesser Yellowlegs
Long-billed Dowitcher
Anna's Hummingbird
Gila Woodpecker
Rosy-faced Lovebird
Northern Rough-winged Swallow
Northern Mockingbird
American Pipit
Abert's Towhee
White-crowned Sparrow
Red-winged Blackbird

January 10th
Brown Creeper

January 12th
American Kestrel
Western Scrub-Jay

January 19th
Red-naped Sapsucker
Say's Phoebe
House Wren

January 21st
Common Goldeneye
Pygmy Nuthatch
Song Sparrow

January 25th
Lewis's Woodpecker

February 2nd
Gadwall
Common Gallinule
Marsh Wren
Bridled Titmouse
Savannah Sparrow

February 3rd
White-tailed Kite
Brewer's Sparrow
Golden-crowned Sparrow
White-throated Sparrow
Northern Cardinal
Lesser Goldfinch

February 7th
Cackling Goose
Pinyon Jay

February 16th
Wood Duck
Hermit Thrush
Orange-crowned Warbler
Lincoln Sparrow
Virginia Rail

February 17th
Spotted Towhee
Cassin's Finch

February 22nd
Cliff Swallow

February 23rd
Greater Roadrunner
Cooper's Hawk
Cactus Wren
Gambel's Quail
Turkey Vulture
Crissal Thrasher
LeConte's Thrasher
Loggerhead Shrike
Sandhill Crane
Vermillion Flycatcher
Northern Harrier

March 2nd
Ring-billed Gull
Great-horned Owl
Bushtit

March 14th
Great Cormorant
Eurasian Coot
Black-headed Gull
Herring Gull
Eurasian Magpie
Carrion Crow
Common Wood-Pigeon

March 15th
Tufted Duck
Ring-necked Pheasant
Eurasian Moorhen
Green Woodpecker
Great-spotted Woodpecker
Eurasian Jay
Great Tit
Eurasian Blue Tit
Eurasian Blackbird
European Goldfinch

March 16th
Graylag Goose
Mute Swan
Egyptian Goose
Common Shelduck
Eurasian Wigeon
Common Pochard
Little Grebe
Great-crested Grebe
Grey Heron
Common Buzzard
Water Rail
Northern Lapwing
Common Snipe
Common (Mew) Gull
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Stock Dove
Eurasian Jackdaw
Long-tailed Tit
European Robin
Dunnock
White Wagtail
Common Chaffinch

March 17th
Red-legged Partridge
Little Egret
Eurasian Oystercatcher
Barn Owl
Eurasian Kestel
Rook
Sky Lark
Brent Goose (Brant)
Red-breasted Merganser
Eurasian Marsh-Harrier
Grey (Black- Bellied) Plover
European Golden Plover
Common Ringed Plover
Common Redshank
Eurasian Curlew
Black-tailed Godwit
Bar-tailed Godwit
Red Knot
Dunlin
European Greenfinch

March 19th
Ruddy Turnstone
Sanderling

March 20th
Rose-ringed Parakeet

March 21st
Common Crane
White-throated Dipper
Eurasian Treecreeper
Coal Tit
Eurasian Wren
Fieldfare
Reed Bunting
Yellowhammer
Eurasian Siskin

March 22nd
Eurasian Sparrowhawk
Ruff
Great Black-backed Gull

March 28th
Wilson's Snipe

March 31st
Lesser Scaup
Tree Swallow
Barn Swallow
Mountain Bluebird
Yellow-headed Blackbird

April 2nd
Golden Eagle
Rough-legged Hawk
Chipping Sparrow
Evening Grosbeak

April 6th
Osprey
Least Sandpiper
White-winged Dove

April 7th
Brewer's Blackbird

April 13th
Broad-tailed Hummingbird

April 18th
White-faced Ibis
Violet-green Swallow

April 20th
Common Black-hawk
Sora
Yellow Warbler
Painted Redstart

April 25th
Blue-winged Teal
Harris Hawk
Spotted Sandpiper
Solitary Sandpiper
Greater Yellowlegs
Phainopepla
Common Yellowthroat
Bewick's Wren
Lucy's Warbler
Bronzed Cowbird
Elf Owl
Lesser Nighthawk

April 26th
Elegant Trogon
Dusky-capped Flycatcher
Plumbeous Vireo
Hutton's Vireo
Mexican Jay
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Swainson's Thrush
Black-throated Gray Warbler
Townsend's Warbler
Hermit Warbler
Yellow-eyed Junco
Hepatic Tanager
Magnificent Hummingbird
Black-chinned Hummingbird
Broad-billed Hummingbird
Black-headed Grosbeak
Lazuli Bunting
Hooded Oriole
Scott's Oriole
Wild Turkey
Gray Hawk
Arizona Woodpecker
Rufous-crowned Sparrow
Rufous-winged Sparrow
Black-crowned Night-Heron
Cassin's Kingbird

April 27th
Chihuahuan Raven
Black Vulture
Violet-crowned Hummingbird
Ladder-backed Woodpecker
Western Kingbird
Yellow-breasted Chat
Lark Sparrow
Summer Tanager
Pyrrhuloxia
Bullock's Oriole
Brown-crested Flycatcher
Thick-billed Kingbird
Wilson's Warbler
Zone-tailed Hawk
Black-bellied Whistling Duck
Cattle Egret
Willet

April 28th
Western Sandpiper
Wilson's Phalarope

May 4th
Rock Wren
Canyon Wren
Black-throated Sparrow
Least Bittern
Marbled Godwit

May 7th
Sharp-shinned Hawk

May 8th
Bobolink

May 11th
Scaled Quail
Red-necked Phalarope

May 12th
Red-breasted Nuthatch
Vesper Sparrow
Red Crossbill

May 16th
Dusky Flycatcher
Purple Martin
Western Tanager

May 19th
Cordilleran Flycatcher
Virginia's Warbler
MacGillivray's Warbler
Red-faced Warbler

May 21st
Spotted Owl

May 25th

Western Wood-Pewee

June 5th

Black Swan

Pacific Black-duck

Grey Teal

Chestnut Teal

Hardhead

Australasian Grebe

Little Pied Cormorant

Australian Pelican

White-faced Heron

Australian Ibis

Yellow-billed Spoonbill

Australian Kite

Whistling Kite

Brahminy Kite

Buff-banded Rail

Purple Swamphen

Dusky Moorhen

Black-fronted Dotterel

Black-winged Stilt

Caspian Tern

Great Crested Tern

Galah

Red-backed Fairywren

Superb Fairywren

Mangrove Honeyeater

Mangrove Gerygone

Willie-Wagtail

Grey Fantail

Magpie-Lark

Torresian Crow

Welcome Swallow

Tree Martin

Golden-headed Cisticola

Australasian Pipit

Chestnut-breasted Munia

Freckled Duck

Pink-eared Duck

Little Black Cormorant

Australasian Darter

Australasian Figbird

Masked Lapwing

Spotted Dove

Crested Pigeon

Sulphur-crested Cockatoo

Rainbow Lorikeet

Noisy Miner

Grey Butcherbird

June 6th

Australian King Parrot

Green Catbird

Lewin's Honeyeater

Bell Miner

White-browed Scrubwren

Large-billed Scrubwren

Brown Gerygone

Eastern Whipbird

Pale-yellow Robin

Eastern Yellow Robin

Laughing Kookaburra

Pied Currawong

Silver Gull

Straw-necked Ibis

June 9th

Australian Brush-Turkey

Maned Duck

Bush Thick-knee

June 11th

Brown Honeyeater

Silver-eye

June 13th
Pied Butcherbird
Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike
Golden Whistler
Rufous Fantail
Yellow-faced Honeyeater
Brown Thornbill

June 14th
Royal Spoonbill
Australian Kestrel
Fairy Martin
Mistletoebird

June 16th
Scaly-breasted Lorikeet
Striated Heron
Collared Kingfisher
Gull-billed Tern
Pied Cormorant
Sacred Kingfisher
Striated Pardalote
Noisy Friarbird
Grey Shrike-thrush
Rufous Whistler
Fan-tailed Cuckoo
Variegated Fairywren
Spangled Drongo
Olive-backed Oriole
Rainbow Bee-eater
White-bellied Sea-Eagle
Magpie Goose
Australian Shoveler

June 18th
Little Wattlebird
Peaceful Dove
White-throated Honeyeater
White-cheeked Honeyeater
Bar-shouldered Dove
Red-browed Finch
Common Myna

June 20th
Crimson Rosella
Brown Cuckoo-dove
Satin Bowerbird
Regent Bowerbird
White-breasted Tree-creeper
Yellow-Throated Scrub-wren
New Holland Honeyeater
White-naped Honeyeater
Spotted Pardalote

June 22nd
Gray-browed Babbler
White-necked Heron
Red-kneed Dotterel
Glossy Ibis
Pale-headed Rosella
Little Friarbird
Red-necked Avocet
Banded Lapwing
Plumed Whistling Duck
Double-barred Finch
Black Kite
Red-rumped Parrot
Blue-billed Duck

June 23rd
Noisy Pitta
Black-eared Monarch
Varied Triller
Rose Robin

June 26th
White-breasted Kingfisher
House Crow
Eurasian Tree Sparrow
House Swift
Oriental Magpie Robin

June 27th
Asian Koel
Black-naped Oriole
Crested Myna
Pacific Swallow
Asian Glossy Starling

June 28th
Javan Myna

June 29th
Javan Pond Heron
Common Tailorbird

July 1st
Crested Serpent-Eagle
Blyth's Hawk Eagle
Black-thighed Falconet
Thick-billed Green Pigeon
Silver-rumped Needletail
Glossy Swiftlet
Whiskered Treeswift
Orange-breasted Trogon
Gold-whiskered Barbet
Black-browed Barbet
Blue-eared Barbet
Banded Yellownape
Grey-throated Babbler
Slaty-backed Forktail
Diard's Trogon
Chequer-throated Yellownape
Red-billed Malkoha
Black-and-Red Broadbill
Black-and-Yellow Broadbill
Garnet Pitta
Banded Pitta
Greater Green Leafbird
Blue-winged Leafbird
Black-crested Bulbul
Ochraceous Bulbul
Ashy Bulbul
Dark-necked Tailorbird
Long-billed Spiderhunter
Grey Heron
Purple Heron
Black-crowned Night-Heron
Blue-throated Bee-eater
Sunda Pygmy Woodpecker
Malaysian (Little Bronze Cuckoo)
Greater Coucal
Large-tailed Nightjar
Mangrove Pitta
Yellow-vented Bulbul
Asht Tailorbird
Yellow-bellied Prinia
Pied Fantail
Maroon-breasted Philontoma

July 4th
Asian Black Eagle
Mountain Imperial Pigeon
Little Cuckoo Dove
Stripe-throated Bulbul
Sultan Tit
Chestnut-capped Laughing-Thrush
Silver-eared Mesia
Mountain Fulvetta
Long-tailed Sibia
Chestnut-naped Forktail
Rufous-browed Flycatcher
Large Niltava
Black-throated Sunbird
Streaked Spiderhunter

July 5th
Fire-tufted Barbet
Malaysian Cuckoo Shrike
Grey-chinned Minivet
Lesser Racquet-tailed Drongo
Golden Babbler
Chestnut-crowned Laughing-Thrush
White-throated Fantail

July 6th
Painted Stork

July 7th
Asian Palm Swift
Streak-eared Bulbul

July 8th
Cotton Pygmy-Goose
Oriental Darter
Little Cormorant
Red-breasted Parakeet
Germain's Swiftlet
Olive-backed Sunbird
Greater Racqet-tailed Drongo

July 9th
Red Collared Dove
Large-billed Crow

July 14th
Zebra Dove

July 15th
Emerald Dove
Blue-throated Bee-eater
Rhinoceros Hornbill
Red-throated Barbet
Grey-and-Buff Woodpecker
Bar-winged Flycatcher-shrike
Scarlet Minivet
Grey-bellied Bulbul
Buff-vented Bulbul
Eye-browed Wren-babbler
Rufous-fronted Babbler
Brown Fulvetta
Verditer Flycatcher
Grey-headed Canary-flycatcher
Rufous-winged Philentoma
Everett's White-eye

July 18th
Shining Bronze Cuckoo
Little Grassbird
Yellow-rumped Thornbill
Wedge-tailed Eagle
Eastern Spinebill
Wonga Pigeon
Bassian Thrush
Australian Logrunner

July 21st
Rufous Night-Heron
Red Wattlebird
Australian Raven
Little Raven

July 22nd
Little Penguin
Black-browed Albatross
Cape Barren Goose
Swamp Harrier
Black-tailed Native Hen
Sooty Oystercatcher
Pacific Gull
Common Bronzewing
Eastern Rosella
Grey Currawong
White-plumed Honeyeater

August 4th
Burrowing Owl

August 10th
Green Heron

September 7th
Rufous Hummingbird
Calliope Hummingbird

September 12th
Olive-sided Flycatcher
Gray Flycatcher

September 21st
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
Red-headed Woodpecker
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Red-cockaded Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Eastern Wood-Pewee
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher
Red-eyed Vireo
Carolina Chickadee
Tufted Titmouse
Brown-headed Nuthatch
Eastern Bluebird
Brown Thrasher
Black-and-White Warbler
Pine Warbler
Eastern Towhee
Blue Grosbeak

September 22nd
Tricolored Heron
White Ibis
Semipalmated Plover
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Baird's Sandpiper
Pectoral Sandpiper
Buff-breasted Sandpiper
American Golden Plover
Black Tern
Forster's Tern
Sandwich Tern
Royal Tern
Common Nighthawk
Blue Jay
Northern Parula
American Redstart
Prothonotary Warbler
Anhinga
Fish Crow
Common Grackle
Black Skimmer
Chimney Swift

September 23rd
Boat-tailed Grackle
Laughing Gull
Palm Warbler
Black-throated Green Warbler
Prairie Warbler
American Oystercatcher
White-rumped Sandpiper
Pileated Woodpecker
Carolina Wren
Short-billed Dowitcher
Merlin

September 24th
Cory's Shearwater
Great Shearwater
Audubon's Shearwater
Black-capped Petrel
Bridled Tern
Common Tern

September 25th
Gray Catbird
Bay-breasted Warbler
Magnolia Warbler
Cape May Warbler
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Willow Flycatcher
Philadelphia Vireo
Eastern Phoebe
Chestnut-sided Warbler
Scarlet Tanager
Cedar Waxwing

September 26th
Rose-breasted Grosbeak
Hooded Warbler
Tennessee Warbler
Blue-headed Vireo
Yellow-throated Vireo
Bank Swallow
Wood Thrush
Red-shouldered Hawk
Yellow-throated Warbler
Acadian Flycatcher
Least Flycatcher
Canada Warbler
Hooded Merganser

September 27th
Golden-crowned Kinglet
Black-throated Blue Warbler
Blackburnian Warbler
Ovenbird
Broad-winged Hawk
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker

September 28th
Winter Wren
American White Pelican

September 29th
White-eyed Vireo
Golden-winged Warbler

October 4th
Brandt's Cormorant
Pelagic Cormorant
Long-billed Curlew
Whimbrel
Surfbird
California Gull
Western Gull
Heerman's Gull
Elegant Tern

October 5th
Pacific Loon
Northern Fulmar
Black-footed Albatross
Black-vented Shearwater
Manx Shearwater
Sooty Shearwater
Pink-footed Shearwater
Flesh-footed Shearwater
Buller's Shearwater
Common Murre
Pigeon Guillemot
Cassin's Auklet
Rhinoceros Auklet
Black Oystercatcher
Black Turnstone
Pomarine Jaeger
South Polar Skua
Red Phalarope

October 6th
California Quail
Nuttall's Woodpecker
Chestnut-backed Chickadee
Oak Titmouse
California Towhee

October 17th
Peregrine Falcon

October 19th
Black-capped Chickadee
Field Sparrow
Fox Sparrow

November 9th
Brown Booby
Greater Scaup
White-winged Scoter
Red-breasted Merganser
Horned Grebe
Bonaparte's Gull

November 11th
Common Loon

November 17th
Ferruginous Hawk
Horned Lark

November 20th
Cedar Waxwing
Rufous-backed Robin

November 28th
Blue-footed Booby
Prairie Falcon
Clark's Grebe
Wrentit

November 29th
Surf Scoter

November 30th
Little Blue Heron
Costa's Hummingbird

December 1st
Greater White-fronted Goose

December 7th
Mountain Plover
White-throated Swift
Crested Caracara

December 19th
Tundra Swan

December 22nd
Sage Thrasher
Grasshopper Sparrow
Sagebrush Sparrow

December 27th
Canyon Towhee

December 30th
Northern Pygmy-Owl