Birds, Birds, Birds…

I have been staying at “my country place,” where I am a catsitter. The stay lined up with migration getting underway, and so I am just “copy and pasting” my observations for the last 2 weeks: What a perfect day—starting with the first eastern phoebe of the year posing outside the breakfast table. Then a song sparrow fired up with such a lovely, clear, clean call.

1 (m) Redwing came for 1 day only

1 (m) cardinal briefly 4/16/2025 12:30pm

Flicker discovered the ant hills!

All woodpeckers, male and female (multiple pileated one afternoon deep in the forest, so assuming it was a mix of M and F).

White breasted nuthatch

Red breasted nuthatch

Brown Creeper

Mourning dove

Sapsucker

Northern flicker

Purple finch

Goldfinch

Pine siskin

Chickadee

Junco

Sharp shin hawk

Bluejays

FLYOVERS: daily crane/ ring-billed seagulls/ ducks unknown/ trumpeter swans

Kinglet

Fox sparrow

Song sparrow

Chipping sparrow (looked like a chestnut top)

Robin

Phoebe

Crow

Raven

-            Broad winged hawk     (heard it calling near the house twice)

1 cardinal (m)

1 black vulture (rode thermals up the valley, over the house, and away to the west…)

-            WOW—I just witnessed a red bellied woodpecker “dance” for its presumed mate!

Overnight 4/17 to 4/18 a big rain STORM. All vernal pools full.

Morning of 4/18 single trumpeter flyover

First yellow rumped warbler (now m and f seen)

Broad-winged hawk made a lap through the orchard, over to the creek and then around and back out to the SW over the pines…