This list goes on...

I can't help but to post again about the birds I've been seeing at my new place in Manning.  Just as I was thinking I've seen all that I'll see there, more new things show up!

• Brown Creeper
• American Kestrel
• American Crows
• Anna's Hummingbird - female
• Evening Grosbeaks* - male and female
• Red-Breasted Nuthatch
• Turkey Vultures - 10 overhead! The most I've ever seen at once.
• Great Blue Heron
• Eurasian Collared Doves - I don't know how plausible that is, but I'm pretty sure of it, and I think we see them more often than we realize and quickly categorize them as Mourning Doves and move on.  I know Doves aren't the most interesting bird to study, but it's something to think about next time you're birding. :)
• Purple Finches
• American Goldfinches
• Owl pellets - last sunday afternoon
• Great Horned Owl! - Sunday night
• Black-Headed Grosbeak - male + several male and female Evening Grosbeaks
• Mallards - pair flying by
• Chipping Sparrow

*Lifer! First lifer at my new residence. 

Lots of Golden-Crowned Sparrows in the yard and at the feeder.  When I saw the Chipping Sparrow yesterday, it was surrounded by  G.C. Sparrows and looked so tiny in comparison. 

American Goldfinch.  I think they're so funny looking when their black cap is more of a mask.  Hee hee <3

American Goldfinch.  I think they're so funny looking when their black cap is more of a mask.  Hee hee <3

American Kestrel 

Evening Grosbeaks - female and male

Yikes!  Here we have a Mourning Dove's egg (or possibly Eurasian Collared Dove) that I believe was the victim of a brutal murder.  (By the way, this happened right before I found out about Eurasian Collared Doves, and they have now fled the area.)

European Starling AKA the murderers.  The doves and starlings were fighting over a tree, and, sadly the starlings won.

On a lighter note, Yay, an American Robin!

Worst picture ever... supposed to be a male Purple Finch... all crappy, like an attempt to prove Bigfoot exists.... ha!

Worst picture ever... supposed to be a male Purple Finch... all crappy, like an attempt to prove Bigfoot exists.... ha!

Owl pellet, possibly from a Great Horned Owl.  See the yellow buck teeth of a mouse?

Evening Grosbeaks came back.

Male Black-Headed Grosbeak

Robin's egg (not murdered by starlings) 

Ridgefield Wildlife Refuge

"As cousins, we went birding at Ridgefield the day before Thanksgiving." HAA!
Another great trip to Ridgefield with my bird instructor/cousin. 

• Mallards
• Great Egret
• American Kestrel
• American Coot
• Northern Shoveler
• Western Gull
• Great Blue Heron - juvenile
• American Robins
• European Starlings
• Western Scrub-Jays
• Pied-Billed Grebe
• Northern Flicker
• Cinnamon Teal
• Hooded Merganser - male
• Tundra Swans*
• Northern Harrier
• Bufflehead - female
• Peregrine Falcon*
• Gadwalls
• Bald Eagles - juvenile and adult
• Bewick's Wren
• American Wigeons
• Red-Tailed Hawks
• Northern Pintails
• Sandhill Cranes
• Black-Capped Chickadees
• Red-Winged Blackbirds
• Canada Geese

+Coyote

+Beavers

+Nutria

*Lifers!

Juvenile Great Blue Heron

European Starlings

Sauvie's Island

• White-Breasted Nuthatch*
• Barn Swallows
• Tree Swallows
• Ospreys
• European Starlings
• Western Scrub-Jay
• American Goldfinch
• Anna's Hummingbirds
• Oregon Junco
• House Finch

*Lifer

Trojan Park

Mainly a place to play frisbee golf, but there's a few lakes, and where there's water, there's birds!

• Mallard - male
• Domesticated waterfowl
• European Starlings (I include them in hopes that one day I'll look back and realize their not so wide spread as they use to be.  Wishful thinking, I know.)
• American Robins
• Great Blue Heron
• Osprey
• Bald Eagle
• Tree Swallows
• Red-Winged Blackbird
• White-Crowned Sparrow
• Violet-Green Swallow
• Turkey Vulture 
• Western Scrub-Jay
• Belted Kingfisher*

*Lifer

Bald Eagle