More birds at my new house

The list of birds continues to grow and astound!  Heehee...

It's funny because we see the less common versions of common birds here.... for example;

Instead of seeing Black-Capped Chickadees all the time, it's Chestnut-Backed Chickadees.  We see White and Golden-Crowned Sparrows instead of House or Song Sparrows, Purple instead of House Finches.  You're more likely to see a Steller's Jay than a Western Scrub-Jays, and Varied Thrush and Spotted Towhee as often as Robins, and so on.  It's pretty cool! :)

• Turkey Vulture
• California Quail - right in the front yard, through the window!  
• Purple Finches - females
• Pine Siskins
• Red-Winged Blackbirds - at first just the female, but finally, this morning one male.
• American Goldfinch
• Golden-Crowned Sparrows
• Common Ravens
• Hairy Woodpecker

Steller's Jays

American Goldfinch and Pine Siskin

Lincoln City

Josephine Young Memorial Park

• Western Gulls
• Bald Eagles
• Buffleheads - males and females
• Surf Scoters - males
• White-Winged Scoters* - male and female
• Double-Crested Cormorant
• Horned Grebe
• Common Goldeneyes
• Red-Breasted Merganser - female
• Common Raven
• Spotted Towhee
• House Sparrow
• Red-Winged Blackbird - call

*Lifer!

Bald Eagles

Not a great photo, but I'm happy to get my first White-Winged Scoter - male
(If you look closely you may be able to see the tip of the white wing, in an even crappier shot, you could see more of it, but it was so blurry)

White-Winged Scoter - female!

Double-Crested Cormorant

Fogarty State Park

• Varied Thrushes - male and female
• American Robins
• Oregon Juncos
• Hermit Thursh
• American Crows
• Black Oystercatchers
• Bald Eagle
• Surf Scoter - male
• Black Scoters - males
• Pelagic Cormorants
• Hairy Woodpeckers*
• Northern Flicker
• Anna's Hummingbird - call

*Lifer!

Varied Thrush

Black Oystercatcher - pair - can you spot them? :)

Handsome Black Oystercatcher

Hairy Woodpecker working away

Boiler Bay

• Western Gulls
• Glaucous-Winged Gull
• Pelagic Cormorant
• American Crows
• Common Loon

East Devil's Lake

• Common Merganser - female
• Common Loon
• Tree Swallow
• Buffleheads - males and females
• Yellow-Rumped Warblers
• Golden-Crowned Kinglets
• Lesser Scaup
• Western Gull - carrying a fish in it's mouth!
• Bald Eagle
• Canada Geese
• Rock Doves - including a rusty plumage variety 

Pacific Loon...?

Along Highway 101

• Brewer's Blackbirds - females
• Common Merganser - female
• American Kestrels
• Western Scrub-Jays
• Red-Tailed Hawks
• American Robins
• Brants