California (1 Viewer)

Just returned from a 3 week trip to California primarily in the Livermore area which is east of Oakland/San Francisco. Also as part of my trip we spent a day up at Point Reyes National Seashore. Point Reyes was amazing. Not only with birds but elephant seals.

Ended the trip with 99 species and 11 life birds.




Canada Goose
Mute Swan
Mallard
Harlequin Duck Life Bird
Surf Scoter Life Bird
Common Merganser
California Quail
Wild Turkey
Pied-billed Grebe
Western Grebe
Brandt's Cormorant Life Bird
Double-crested Cormorant
Pelagic Cormorant Life Bird
Brown Pelican
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Snowy Egret
Turkey Vulture
Osprey
White-tailed Kite
Northern Harrier
Cooper's Hawk
Bald Eagle
Red-shouldered Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
Killdeer
Black Oystercatcher Life Bird
American Avocet
Willet
Long-billed Curlew
Heermann's Gull Life Bird
Western Gull Life Bird
California Gull
Caspian Tern
Common Murre Life Bird
Pigeon Guillemot Life Bird
Rock Pigeon
Eurasian Collared-Dove
Mourning Dove
Great Horned Owl
White-throated Swift
Black-chinned Hummingbird
Anna's Hummingbird
Acorn Woodpecker
Nuttall's Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Hairy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
American Kestrel
Black Phoebe
Say's Phoebe Life Bird
Ash-throated Flycatcher
Western Kingbird
Hutton's Vireo
Warbling Vireo
Steller's Jay
Western Scrub-Jay
Yellow-billed Magpie
American Crow
Common Raven
Northern Rough-winged Swallow
Tree Swallow
Violet-green Swallow
Barn Swallow
Cliff Swallow
Chestnut-backed Chickadee
Oak Titmouse
Bushtit
White-breasted Nuthatch
House Wren
Bewick's Wren
Wrentit
Western Bluebird
Swainson's Thrush
American Robin
Northern Mockingbird
California Thrasher
European Starling
Yellow Warbler
Wilson's Warbler
Spotted Towhee
Rufous-crowned Sparrow Life Bird
California Towhee
Lark Sparrow
Savannah Sparrow
Song Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
Black-headed Grosbeak
Red-winged Blackbird
Western Meadowlark
Brewer's Blackbird
Brown-headed Cowbird
Bullock's Oriole
Purple Finch
House Finch
Lesser Goldfinch
Lawrence's Goldfinch
American Goldfinch

Pauhana -
You must have been to California before if California Thrasher and Lawrence's Goldfinch were not life birds. After two trips to that area, those two are still on my wish list.
Looks like you got a good many of salt water species, despite Point Reyes being a "side trip". It must have been a physically refreshing visit after being in the heat of the valley.
No Tri-colored Blackbird? Another one I missed on my visits. Great state to visit for us Easterners.

Steve

Hamhed said:

Pauhana -
You must have been to California before if California Thrasher and Lawrence's Goldfinch were not life birds. After two trips to that area, those two are still on my wish list.
Looks like you got a good many of salt water species, despite Point Reyes being a "side trip". It must have been a physically refreshing visit after being in the heat of the valley.
No Tri-colored Blackbird? Another one I missed on my visits. Great state to visit for us Easterners.

Steve

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Yep got goldfinch and thrasher last year. Thrashers are resident at lake de Valle in Livermore. No tri-colored bb this year, found a few last year. Point Reyes is a worthwhile trip. Would love to be there during migration