Pacifica and Shoreline

On Saturday January 28th my wife and I walked along the sea wall in Pacifica to see the well-reported Emperor Goose on the Sharp Park golf course. This was my first lifer of the year, and a species that I did not expect to see unless I went to Alaska.

Neighborhood Birds

The weekend of Saturday January 21st and Sunday 22nd was my first one at home in 2017. Snow storms on Thursday and Friday nights had brought 24 inches of snow to my yard and I spent much of Saturday getting my driveway clear and my feeders stocked. But I was able to spend time on Sunday watching the birds and had the usual selection of birds minus Cassin's Finches and Evening Grosbeaks that have not been around this winter. For the first time I had a Brown Creeper on my peanut pellet feeder, and I also had a rare winter visitor - Lesser Goldfinch - on a thistle sock. This bird is usually seen in small numbers on the Flagstaff CBC but I have no winter record of this species in my yard.

Brown Creeper

Lesser Goldfinch and Pine Siskins

On Sunday afternoon I went for a short walk to add Lewis's Woodpecker to my year list, with the bird obliging by flying from low to the tree top just after I had arrived at the usual snags.

Sweeterwater, the Santa Cruz Flats and Gilbert Water Ranch

I started the day on Monday January 16th with a 90 minute stroll around Sweetwater. I did not see anything unexpected but met a friendly Marsh Wren at the bridge and saw a number of Blue-gray Gnatcatchers, Verdin, Orange-crowned Warblers and Yellow-rumped Warblers on my circuit. The old hand clap routine stimulated three Sora into a response. While there I ran into Jenny (and Leo) who had helped with the Brown Thrasher on Sunday.

Verdin

Cooper's Hawk

Heading home my first detour was at Red Rock where a number of Lark Buntings were off the side of the road near the community park. Present at the feedlot were uncountable numbers of Eurasian Starlings, Red-winged Blackbirds, Brewer's Blackbirds and Brown-headed Cowbirds with plenty of pigeons and Eurasian Collared-Doves thrown in.  At the front of the enterprise a Vermilion Flycatcher seemed out of place.

Lark Buntings

I was a little wary of driving onto the Santa Cruz Flats after all the rain, but it seemed that the rain had not been as bad here as it had south of Tucson, and the roads were fine. The journey started well with three Harris Hawk's atop the telephone poles just north of the feedlot and I saw two groups of Crested Caracara along Baumgartner Road. I stopped briefly at the junction with Wheeler to look for an oft reported Rufous-backed Robin where I met someone I had seen in Glendale on Saturday. The two us then went to Pretzer and Tweedy where Mountain Plover remained too distant to ID with confidence.

Harris Hawk

Crested Caracara

I ended the day with a short stop at the Gilbert Water Ranch adding four easy Arizona year birds - Black-necked Stilt, American Avocet, Long-billed Dowitcher and Snowy Egret - but not seeing anything out of the ordinary. On my return to the library car park I was greeted by a singing Curve-billed Thrasher.

My 3-day trip had yielded 103 species taking me to 161 birds for the year, with 116 in Arizona. With semester about to start little change is expected to the 2017 numbers in the near future.

Tumacacori, Madera Canyon and Tucson

I started the day on Sunday January 15th at the pyracantha bushes on Santa Gertrudis Lane hoping to finally defeat my nemesis. But luck was with me and Jenny came by and told me exactly where she had seen it before, and then found it for me. I had chased Brown Thrasher all over the state for several years. Finally I ticked it off - although the views of the bird, on the ground half-hidden by branches was not the best.

After aborting an attempt to find the difficult Rose-throated Becard in Tubac, although I found Lark Sparrows and Chipping Sparrows at Tubac Presidio State Park I then searched, also without luck, for the Palm Warbler in Sahuarita.

My next stop was Madera Canyon, and I arrived in the rain with the Santa Rita feeders devoid of birds! But I was able to get my target birds - Yellow-eyed Junco, Mexican Jay, Bridled Titmouse and Arizona Woodpecker at Santa Rita, and Wild Turkey, Hepatic Tanager and Magnificent Hummingbird at the Kubo.

Bridled Titmouse

Magnificent Hummingbird

I then drove into Tucson and dipped on the Burrowing Owls at the usual spot. Water was coming out of their usual hiding places and they had clearly sought refuge elsewhere. I ended the day at Reid Park with Vermilion Flycatcher, Redhead and Black-crowned Night-Heron.

Vermilion Flycatcher

Redhead

But I had a surprise waiting for me at my hotel when three Cactus Wren greeted me at my doorstep!

Phoenix

I drove down to Phoenix after work on Friday January 13th for the long weekend, and spent Saturday 14th birding around Phoenix. My first stop was at the Glendale Recharge Ponds where I found my target, an uncooperative Long-tailed Duck that spent long periods under water and only a few seconds in view.  The ponds had an expected variety of ducks as well as many Least Sandpipers. The most interesting sight was a large flock of American Pipits feeding around a seated Peregrine.

Peregrine Falcon

The next stop was at a stake-out spot in an alfalfa field in Goodyear/Buckeye. A Trumpeter Swan had been at the same spot for more than a week, sitting in the middle of the field a long way from any vantage point. A couple were already on the distant bird. This was a state bird for me, and a bird I had missed in the Pacific Northwest at Thanksgiving.

Trumpeter Swan

My next stop was at the Buckeye Thrasher spot where I beat the bushes for 90 minutes and found few birds. My wanderings began brightly with Gambel's Quail and three Sagebrush Sparrows, but I saw little else before running into a couple of Black-tailed Gnatcatchers nearly an hour later. I has just about given up hope of seeing any thrashers when I noticed a LeConte's Thrasher perched up waiting to be seen.

LeConte's Thrasher

My next stop was at Encanto Park where I had had good views on Rosy-faced Lovebirds a year ago. This time I added the bird to my year list through five birds calling as they flew overhead. I did manage to find a Verdin, a small group of Inca Doves  as well as my first Neotropic Cormorants of the year - looking so different to the Double-crested Cormorants I have become used to in San Jose.

Neotropic Cormorant

Inca Dove

 I ended the day at Papago Park where I immediately headed to the usual spot for Common Gallinule where I found not only that species but also a Green Heron. I dipped on Cactus Wren and Curve-billed Thrasher but also added Gila Woodpecker.

Common Gallinule

Green Heron

Back in Flagstaff

I added some easy year birds both in the back yard and around town during my first few days in Flagstaff. On Tuesday January 10th I took a detour to Willow Bend on the way home. I should not have been surprised by the lack of ducks as there was much open water elsewhere but heading back with just coot, ravens and flickers to show for my efforts I had a Greater Roadrunner cross the path in front of me. That was just the third or fourth I'd seen inside city limits.

On Wednesday 11th I did my circuit for the wintering eagle count and added several species to my Arizona for the year. After finding two male Northern Pintail on Lake Elaine my next good stop was at the double ponds where a female Hooded Merganser and a female Goldeneye were in the pond and a young Bald Eagle - my only one for the route.

Bald Eagle

I made a quick stop across the road from the Flagstaff Athletic Club and found 3 Snow Geese and 1 Cackling Goose in with the Canada Geese. My trip out to a cold and windy Walnut Canyon was unproductive.

Last days in San Jose

On Friday January 6th I took a walk through the Santa Teresa County Park in near freezing conditions. (The golf course was covered in frost when I first set out.) The walk began, as it did on January 1st, with lots of American Robins and Cedar Waxwings feeding on the berries in the trees along Bernal Road. I added three year birds on my trip - first a Spotted Towhee from the nature trail before running across a group of 12 Wild Turkey. As I came back along the entry road on the golf course I had a flock of American Goldfinch feeding high in the trees.
 

Cedar Waxwing

American Goldfinch

Saturday January 7th was a rainy day and my birding was limited to two quick stops. A fifteen minute stop at Calero Reservoir was long enough to identify a Clark's Grebe among twenty or so Western Grebes, and also to find my first Common Goldeneye in Santa Clara County. A second stop at a new place, the Santa Clara County Water District Pond, was unsuccessful with the target bird - a Blue-winged Teal - missing. I did find a number of Common Mergansers and a few Double-crested Cormorants.

I had to head back to Arizona and work on Sunday January 8th and did so with 111 species seen in a week in California. Of these 108 were in Santa Clara County, placing me fifth on the eBird list.

Alviso and Lake Cunningham

On Thursday January 5th I arrived at the Environmental Education Center in Alviso and spent a good hour scoping from the entrance road. Dowitchers were everywhere, feeding in the muddy water with several Dunlins mixed in. There were plenty of Black-necked Stilts and American Avocets too and a number of Semi-palmated Plovers and Killdeer were on the islands. I also had a Savannah Sparrow and an American Pipit along the road. A group of Mew Gulls were near the railway line and I managed to find Herring Gulls in with the Ring-billed and California Gulls.

Mew Gull

I then walked along the Chicago Marsh boardwalk and found Green-winged and Cinnamon Teal as well as American Wigeon (all new for the year) as well as many Ruddy Duck and Mallards. A Peregrine flew overhead as I returned to leave.

I stopped at Lake Cunningham on the way back but had no luck with Chestnut-backed Chickadees there. Many songbirds - Black Phoebes, Yellow-rumped Warblers (including a Myrtle), California Towhee and Ruby-crowned Kinglets - were active in the park. There were many gulls on the water as well as a few ducks and a single Western Grebe. I did find one target bird, a dozen American White Pelican were on an island in the lake.

This took me to 107 species in 2017, with 103 in Santa Clara County. My previous record date for reaching 100 species was January 6th, set in 2011.

Laguna Avenue and Morgan Hill

On Wednesday January 4th I returned to Laguna Avenue hoping to find some birds that I had missed the day before. I added Common Raven without trying and then found a Ferruginous Hawk on the ground on the left side of the road. I stopped to chat with someone who was scoping the geese, and Kathy found a White-fronted Goose for me. I had added three species in half an hour, but had no luck with Prairie Falcon or Golden Eagle.

My next stop was Anderson Lake County Park where I immediately, and unexpectedly stumbled upon a pair of Wood Ducks. I wandered around without luck for a while before finding the reason for the quietness - a Red-shouldered Hawk! Once I had flushed the bird the area came to life and I had Oak Titmouse, Steller's Jay, Townsend's Warbler and White-breasted Nuthatch in short succession. At the other part of the park I found a group of 65 California Quail as well as a mix of Golden-crowned and White-crowned Sparrows. I then drove to the reservoir itself and found few birds on the water - a few coots and grebes and my first Common Mergansers of the year.

I then drove to the other side of Morgan Hill to check out Chesboro and Calero Reservoirs but found little on either.

In the afternoon I took a stroll along Bernal Road into the Santa Teresa County Park - the trails were too muddy - where I added a Ruby-crowned Kinglet to my year's list giving me a total of 94 species for the year.

Red-shouldered Hawk

Coyote Valley spots

Ahead of an approaching storm I spent three hours on Tuesday January 3rd at some nearby hotspots in Coyote Valley. I began the day on Laguna Avenue where I quickly added six of my target birds - American Kestrel, Loggerhead Shrike, Say's Phoebe, Western Meadowlark, Yellow-billed Magpie and Red-winged Blackbird. I then drove to the Coyote Valley OSP under darkening skies and did not wander far. I saw 25 magpies and heard a California Quail's chi-ca-go call. Heading back down Palm Avenue I came across a large group of birds feeding in a muddy yard, mostly Brewer's Blackbirds but with at least one Tricolored Blackbird and a couple of Red-winged Blackbirds thrown in. A Eurasian Collared-Dove and some White-crowned Sparrows completed the mix.

Yellow-billed Magpie

California Quail

American Kestrel

I then made my first visit to the Ogier Ponds, following a lead from the list serve, and added three species of swallow - Barn, Tree and Violet-green to my year's list. I saw lots of coot and California Gulls in the ponds but could not find anything new. On the way out I had my only surprise of the morning when a male Purple Finch popped up among a group of White-crowned Sparrow, House Finch and Lesser Goldfinch.

Heading to the Bailey Avenue pond on the way back I decided to make a short detour back to Laguna Avenue, this time finding the Burrowing Owl - albeit a short glimpse before it disappeared down its squirrel burrow. I then added Snow Goose and Cackling Goose along Bailey Road.

I ended the day on 83 species for the year, with 76 of these in Santa Clara County.

Sunnyvale WPCP and Baylands

After running some errands on  Monday January 2nd my wife and I stopped by the Sunnyvale WPCP for a short while under cloudy skies and with a few spots of rain. I added 19 species although nothing was unexpected.

We then stopped briefly at Sunnyvale Baylands where luck was with me as a couple already had the Gray Flycatcher in their sights. I also added Dark-eyed Junco in the park, and then House Sparrow near Cosco on the way back. I ended the day on 67 species for the year including 59 in Santa Clara County.

Santa Teresa County Park and the MLK Shoreline

Away from my traditions in Flagstaff I decided to begin the year trying to beat my eBird record of 40 species on January 1st. I began at first light with the 2.4 mile loop from the house around the low trail in the county park and home again.

My first three birds, as always lacking quality, were American Crow, Turkey Vulture and American Robin. But things improved after that with 40-50 Cedar waxwings feeding on berries in the trees along the side of the golf course on Bernal Road, and a Wrentit singing clearly just before the trail headed down to the golf course. I returned home before 9am with 25 birds on my list, and then added four further species in the neighborhood and on a short trip to the spring.

After some family time we headed to Oakland airport to put my son on a plane back to university, and I added six further species as we drove along the freeways. My wife and I ended the day at the Martin Luther King Shoreline just outside the airport where I added 4 ducks, 2 grebes, 4 waders, an egret and a gull - the best of which was a Black-bellied (Grey) Plover. This took me to 47 species for the day.

Black-bellied (Grey) Plover

Common Goldeneye

Herring Gulls

The Year Ahead

Although 2016 brought about an unexpected lifestyle change, 2017 should be more predictable. I will again spend a combined 2 months in California, will have a trip to the UK in the summer and will go to Chicago for a few days in August. Based on this I will set my world goal at 400 species.

For this I need to set an ABA goal of 350 species although I failed on this in both 2015 and 2016. I need to be more conservative with my Arizona target and will set this at 225. For California I can hope to reach 175.  

I have learned that 150 Coconino county birds is achievable and will aim for this target again. I wiull also use the same number for Santa Clara county, although this may be a bit optimistic.

Lifers will be hard to come by. My best bets are Red-masked Parakeet, Mountain Quail and Bell’s Sparrow.

My 2016 Birding Year

I  ended the year with 501 species which exceeded my goal of 450 species worldwide, due to the 190 species on my 10-day bird tour to Bulgaria in June. Birds seen in the UK took my Europe total to 224 species making up for a 6-year low of 300 in North America. I missed my 250 Arizona bird target by a country mile, ending on just 215 species due to a lifestyle change that meant I spent two months in California. I saw 152 species in Coconino, reaching my target of 150 with a few birds on the Sedona CBC.

I had 42 lifers in 2016, many more than I had expected because my bird tour in Bulgaria gave me 41 of these. My only life bird in the U.S. was Tufted Puffin, courtesy of a Debi Shearwater trip to the Fallarones. I added 4 further species to my ABA list – Short-eared Owl (Vancouver),  Rose-ringed Parakeet (Bakersfield, CA), Ruff (Alviso, CA) and Lesser Sand-Plover (Navajo reservation).

My bird of the year was Tufted Puffin, one I’d been hoping to see for a while. The next three were lifers from my Europe trip: Alpine Accentor, Masked Shrike, Grey-headed Woodpecker. Of these the woodpecker was the most cooperative; on my wish list before I’d left for Bulgaria I did not image I would watch this bird feeding on the ground for five minutes.

My year end totals are as follows: 

Life List
ABA List	574
Arizona List	400
Coconino County List	282
Yard List	97

Others in my family saw five other species. My wife had a Northern Red Bishop in Sunnyvale and Red-masked Parakeets in San Francisco; my son had a Barred Owl at Shannon Point; together they saw Brant and Trumpeter Swans in coastal Washington.

My 2016 Bird List

January 1st
Dark-eyed Junco
House Finch
Pine Siskin
House Sparrow
Brown Creeper
Eurasian Collared Dove
Steller's Jay
Hairy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
White-breasted Nuthatch
Common Raven
Feral (Rock) Pigeon
Merlin
Pygmy Nuthatch
American Crow
Mountain Chickadee
Western Bluebird

January 2nd
Red-naped Sapsucker
Mallard
American Coot
Ring-necked Duck
Ruddy Duck
Pied-billed Grebe
Red-winged Blackbird
Northern Shoveler
Canada Goose
Common Merganser
Canvasback
Hooded Merganser
Northern Pintail
Bald Eagle

January 3rd
Red-tailed Hawk
Northern Harrier
Turkey Vulture
Mourning Dove
American Wigeon
Black Vulture
American Kestrel
Great-tailed Grackle
Curve-billed Thrasher
Verdin
Eared Grebe
Anna's Hummingbird
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Black-necked Stilt
Green-winged Teal
Least Sandpiper
Great Egret
American Avocet
Long-billed Dowitcher
Snowy Egret
Northern Mockingburd
American Pipit
Abert's Towhee
White-crowned Sparrow
Great Blue Heron
Osprey
Black-crowned Night-Heron
European Starling
Killdeer
Double-crested Cormorant
Eurasian Wigeon
Neotropic Cormorant

January 4th
Juniper Titmouse
American Robin
Townsend's Solitaire
Cassin's Finch
Bufflehead

January 5th
Lewis's Woodpecker
Acorn Woodpecker

January 9th
Cooper's Hawk
Phainopepla
Bewick's Wren
Woodhouse's Scrub Jay
Chipping Sparrow

January 10th
Song Sparrow

January 12th
Say's Phoebe
Rock Wren

January 13th
Western Meadowlark
Lincoln's Sparrow
Tundra Swan

January 14th
Sharp-shinned Hawk
Marsh Wren

January 16th
Gambel's Quail
Greater Yellowlegs
Greater Roadrunner
Gila Woodpecker
Crested Caracara
Loggerhead Shrike
Horned Lark
Lark Bunting
Brewer's Blackbird
Wild Turkey
Mexican Jay
Bridled Titmouse
Townsend's Warbler
Yellow-eyed Junco
Lesser Goldfinch
Magnificent Hummingbird
Hepatic Tanager
Wood Duck
Redhead
Cinnamon Teal
Sora
Ladder-backed Woodpecker
Peregrine Falcon
Common Yellowthroat
Yellow-rumped Warbler

January 17th
Brown-headed Cowbird
Rosy-faced Lovebird
Lesser Scaup

January 23rd
Mountain Bluebird
Canyon Wren

January 30th
Ring-billed Gull
Greater Scaup
Surf Scoter
Common Goldeneye
Red-breasted Merganser
Red-throated Loon
Common Loon
Western Grebe
Brown Pelican
White-tailed Kite
Black-bellied Plover
Willet
Long-billed Curlew
Marbled Godwit
Black Turnstone
Sanderling
Common Murre
Western Gull
California Gull
Forster's Tern
Brandt's Cormorant
Snowy Plover
Heerman's Gull
Black Oystercatcher
Whimbrel
Black Phoebe
California Scrub Jay
Belted Kingfisher

January 31st
Golden Eagle
Yellow-billed Magpie
Tricolored Blackbird
Golden-crowned Sparrow
California Thrasher

February 6th
Common Gallinule

February 7th
Northern Rough-winged Swallow
Tree Swallow
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Bendire's Thrasher
Le Conte's Thrasher
Crissal Thrasher
Western Sandpiper

February 20th
Yellow-billed Loon
Horned Grebe
Herring Gull
Black-tailed Gnatcatcher
Gadwall
American White Pelican
White-faced Ibis
Lesser Yellowlegs

February 23rd
Greater White-fronted Goose

February 25th
Evening Grosbeak

March 5th
Common Black Hawk
Virginia Rail

March 12th
California Condor
Sage Thrasher

March 16th
Violet-green Swallow

March 19th
Franklin's Gull

March 26th
Burrowing Owl
Chihuahuan Raven
Inca Dove
Black-chinned Hummingbird
Costa's Hummingbird
Broad-tailed Hummingbird
Rufous Hummingbird
Broad-billed Hummingbird
Rufous-crowned Sparrow
Hooded Oriole
Violet-crowned Hummingbird
Vermilion Flycatcher
Great Horned-Owl

March 27th
Common Ground-dove
Bell's Vireo
Cactus Wren
Lucy's Warbler
Rufous-winged Sparrow
Lark Sparrow
Northern Cardinal

March 31st
Barn Swallow

April 1st
Wilson's Snipe

April 2nd
House Wren
Painted Redstart
White-throated Swift

April 7th
Red Crossbill

April 9th
Downy Woodpecker

April 16th
Pinyon Jay

April 19th
Cliff Swallow

April 21st
Yellow-headed Blackbird

April 24th
Black-headed Grosbeak

April 26th
Spotted Sandpiper

April 29th
Vaux's Swift

April 30th
California Towhee
Nuttall's Woodpecker

May 7th
Yellow Warbler
Summer Tanager
Bullock's Oriole
Scott's Oriole
Western Kingbird
Western Tanager
Brown-crested Flycatcher
Bank Swallow
Yellow-breasted Chat
Brewer's Sparrow

May 8th
Zone-tailed Hawk
Plumbeous Vireo

May 10th
Red-faced Warbler
Orange-crowner Warbler

May 14th
Rose-ringed Parakeet
Cedar Waxwing

May 18th
Savannah Sparrow
Pelagic Cormorant
Bonaparte's Gull
Elegant Tern
Red-shouldered Hawk

May 21st
Barn Owl
Bushtit

May 22nd
California Quail
Band-tailed Pigeon
Oak Titmouse
Ash-throated Flycatcher

May 24th
American Dipper

May 25th
White-headed Woodpecker
Pileated Woodpecker
Hermit Warbler
Red-breasted Nuthatch

May 26th
Hutton's Vireo
Pacific Wren

May 28th
Semi-palmated Plover
Dunlin
Caspian Tern
Western Wood-Pewee

May 31st
Chestnut-backed Chickadee
Purple Finch
Green Heron

June 5th
Black-headed Gull
Common Wood-pigeon
Carrion Crow

June 6th
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Eurasian Magpie
Eurasian Jackdaw
Eurasian Blue Tit
Eurasian Wren
Eurasian Blackbird

June 7th
Mute Swan
Grey Heron
Eurasian Coot
Common Swift
Eurasian Kestrel

June 8th
Common House-Martin
White Stork
Common Buzzard
Corn Crake
Common Cuckoo
Red-backed Shrike
Eurasian Nutcracker
Hooded Crow
Eurasian Crag-Martin
Coal Tit
Common Chiffchaff
European Robin
Black Redstart
Whinchat
Northern Wheatear
Ring Ousel
Mistle Thrush
Alpine Accentor
Dunnock
Grey Wagtail
White Wagtail
Tree Pipit
Water Pipit
Common Chaffinch
Eurasian Linnet

June 9th
Black Stork
Yellow-legged Gull
Alpine Swift
Pallid Swift
Black Woodpecker
Eurasian Jay
Great Tit
White-throated Dipper
Firecrest
Eurasian Blackcap
European Goldfinch
European Serin
European Turtle-Dove
European Scops-Owl
Eastern Olivaceous Warbler
Cirl Bunting
Black-headed Bunting

June 10th
Great Cormorant
Egyptian Vulture
Cinereous Vulture
Eurasian Griffon
Short-tailed Snake-Eagle
Long-legged Buzzard
Lesser Spotted Woodpecker
Syrian Woodpecker
Eurasian Hobby
Lesser Grey Shrike
Woodchat Shrike
Crested Lark
Sky Lark
Wood Lark
Red-rumped Swallow
Sombre Tit
Barred Warbler
Lesser Whitethroat
Subalpine Warbler
Sardinian Warbler
Greater Whitethroat
Common Nightingale
Blue Rock-Thrush
Black-eared Wheatear
Song Thrush
Western Yellow Wagtail
Rock Bunting
Ortolan Bunting
Corn Bunting
Hawfinch
Spanish Sparrow
Eurasian Tree Sparrow

June 11th
Chukar
European Honey-Buzzard
Eurasian Hoopoe
European Bee-eater
European Roller
Eurasian Green Woodpecker
Eleonora's Falcon
Masked Shrike
Eurasian Golden Oriole
Eastern Bonelli's Warbler
Olive-tree Warbler
European Greenfinch

June 12th
Middle-spotted Woodpecker
Gray Partridge
Imperial Eagle
Levant Sparrowhawk
Black Kite
Lesser Kestrel
European Stonechat
Glossy Ibis
Lesser Spotted Eagle
Common Tern

June 13th
Garganey
Pygmy Cormorant
Black-winged Stilt
Pied Avocet
Green Sandpiper
Common Greenshank
Sandwich Tern
Eurasian Reed-Warbler
Great Crested Grebe
Ruddy Shelduck
Common Shelduck
Common Pochard
Great White Pelican
Dalmatian Pelican
Purple Heron
Little Egret
Squacco Heron
Eurasian Spoonbill
Booted Eagle
Eurasian Marsh-Harrier
White-tailed Eagle
Eurasian Moorhen
Eurasian Oystercatcher
Northern Lapwing
Kentish Plover
Little Ringed Plover
Common Sandpiper
Spotted Redshank
Wood Sandpiper
Common Redshank
Ruddy Turnstone
Ruff
Collared Pratincole
Little Gull
Mediterranean Gull
Little Tern
Gull-billed Tern
Black Tern
Whiskered Tern
Cetti's Warbler
Great Reed-Warbler

June 14th
Eurasian Wryneck
Eurasian Shag
Eurasian Eagle-Owl
Gray-headed Woodpecker
Short-toed Treecreeper
Pied Wheatear

June 15th
Ferriginuous Duck
Eurasian Thick-knee
Great Spotted Woodpecker
Bearded Reedling
Calandra Lark
Greater Short-toed Lark
Paddyfield Warbler
Savi's Warbler
Isabelline Wheatear
Tawny Pipit
Reed Bunting

June 16th
Greylag Goose
Ring-necked Pheasant
Little Grebe
Little Bittern
Eurasian Penduline Tit

June 17th
Common Kingfisher
Eurasian Nuthatch
Marsh Warbler
Caspian Gull
Rook

June 30th
Tufted Duck
Long-tailed Tit

July 3rd
Eurasian Curlew

July 9th
Red-crested Pochard
Stock Dove

July 17th
Common Snipe

July 18th
Barnacle Goose
Northern Gannet
Razorbill
Atlantic Puffin
Black-legged Kittiwake
Great Black-backed Gull
Northern Fulmar
Willow Tit
Yellowhammer

July 19th
Eurasian Sparrowhawk
Eurasian Treecreeper
Common Ringed Plover
Black-tailed Godwit
Red Knot

July 22nd
Common (Mew) Gull

July 26th
Sedge Warbler
Meadow Pipit
Egyptian Goose

August 1st
Wilson's Phalarope
Red-necked Phalarope

August 7th
Pigeon Guillemot
Sooty Shearwater
Cassin's Auklet
Tufted Puffin
Blue-footed Booby
Brown Booby
Fork-tailed Storm Petrel
Pomarine Jaeger

August 14th
Wilson's Warbler

August 21st
Black-throated Gray Warbler
Cassin's Vireo
Nashville Warbler
Lazuli Bunting

August 27th
Williamson's Sapsucker

August 28th
MacGillivray's Warbler

August 30th
Northern Goshawk

September 3rd
Least Tern

September 4th
Least Bittern

September 17th
Surfbird

October 4th
Lesser Sand-Plover

October 10th
Wood Thrush

October 24th
Gray Catbird

November 5th
Eastern Meadowlark
Rufous-backed Robin

November 10th
Ferruginious Hawk
Cackling Goose
American Goldfinch

November 12th
Clay-colored Sparrow
Red-breasted Sapsucker
Thayer's Gull

November 16th
Thick-billed Kingbird

November 19th
Sagebrush Sparrow
Rough-legged Hawk

November 24th
Glaucous-winged Gull
Northwestern Crow
Snow Goose
Northern Shrike
Short-eared Owl

November 25th
Black-capped Chickadee
Fox Sparrow
Golden-crowned Kinglet
Barrow's Goldeneye

November 26th
Harlequin Duck
White-winged Scoter

December 10th
Prairie Falcon

December 16th
Ross's Goose

December 31^st
Gray Flycatcher