Thank you so much to everyone who participated in today's survey. A little birdie told us that there might be a contest component in next week's, so stay tuned! (Townsend's Warbler, photo by Alan Vernon)
A flock of Geese flying over one of the freeways in L.A
A house finch on my porch, at the bird feeder, it came into my house! =)
Acorn Woodpecker, Santa Barbara, CA
American Crowflying over my garage and front yard
American Goldfinch. Julian, CA. Large flock flitting from shrub to shrub
An adult and 2 fledgeling Red-tailed Hawks flying above UC Davis in Davis, CA
American Crowstanding in the street in Highland, CA
Angry Hummer trying to feed from a very cold feeder, low last night was 20, snow on the trees and ground in Tahoe, hoping for the warming trend they promised
Angry Humming Bird, Backyard feeder in Tahoe, the feeder looked pretty cold
Anna's Hummer, blue jay, quail.Arcata, CA back yard
Anna's Hummingbird, Sacramento Backyard
Anna's Hummingbird, San Diego, Male
Anna's Hummingbird at the feeder, Barstow, CA
Anna's Hummingbird, Redwood City CA
Bewick's Wren, Redwood City, CA
Black-throated Gray Warbler, Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden Claremont, CA
Blue Jay, my south San Jose backyard, heard him for hours before I saw him
Blue Jay, humming bird, in Madera, CA
Bushtits, Woodland Hills, CA
CA Towhee and a murder of Crows! San Rafael, Chilly morning! 45degrees & clear
California Quail, Newbury Park, Family of 3
Female California Quail, Mt. Pinos, CA
California Towhee, Huntington Beach
California Towhee, Temecula, CA, Love 'em
California Towhee, Berkeley, CA
California Towhee, Boulder Creek, CA
California Towhee, Temecula, CA
Chickadees are a near-constant presence at the sunflower chips feeder; they share with the other small birds who drop by for a bite
Cormorants -- lined up on an offshore rock apparently awaiting the sun to rise high enough to warm themselves. Fort Bragg, CA
Crow, Parking lot at home
Crow, Fairfield, CA
Crow, NorCal
Crow, Winthrop, Maine
Crows, Ramona CA
Deju, San Mateo Co
Double Crested Cormorant, Richmond!
Double Crested Cormorant, Richmond, Marina Bay
English Sparrow, Lodi, CA
European Starlings, Santa Rosa, Ca
Golden Eagle, Fresius Street in Julian, CA, Honest it was the first bird I saw!
Goldfinch - lesser? Forestville, CA feeder, Wish it wasn't called "lesser!"
Goldfinches eating at the feeders Cottonwood Ca
Hawk, Sacramento, too high to determine kind
House Finch, backyard near Yosemite, Ca
House Finch, Moreno Valley, California, bright beautiful colors
House Finch, goldfinch & mourning doves at my feeders in Villa Park, CA
House SparrowLong Beach, the first one I heard was a Black Phoebe
Hummingbird, my yard
Husband saw "a woodpecker" of some sort, he said it was just dark colored pecking on a tree in our woods in Foresthill, Ca
Juvenile terns, king salmon, ca
Lesser Goldfinch, Yard, Female
Lesser Goldfinch, Glen Ellen, Caloving those thistle seeds
Lesser Goldfinch, San Diego backyard, at nyjer feeder
Male and Female Junko, Woodside, Ca
Marsh Hawke, beautiful...
McComb Magpie...Idaho falls, ID
Mob of tiny whistling Pygmy Nuthatches at the tube feeder, Aptos on the coast south of Santa Cruz
Mockingbird! Too far away for pics
Mockingbird, Oroville, CA
Mountain Chickadee in Acton, CA
Mourning DoveRoof top, Campbell, CA
Mourning DoveRaymond, CA
Owl, Sebastopol, Sonoma County, Calif
ParrotsOrange, CA, I saw two of them on the wires outside
Pigeon, Mission District, SF, Same species, everytime, sigh
Ravens, Murrieta, So. California
Rock Pigeon, San Francisco, CA
Rufous Hummer (so exciting, thought i only had anna's around my place), house finches & a black phoebe- Tustin, CA (:
Scrub Jay, Rodeo, Ca
Scrub Jay, Above Foresta in Yosemite
Towhees, Novato, CA
Townsend's Warbler, Central Coast of CA
Two Blue Jays, in my backyard
Western Screech Owl, Marin Co., CA
Western Scrub Jay, Sacramento
Western Scrub-Jay, South Rim of the Grand Canyon
Western Scrub-Jay, Woodland, CA
Wild Turkey, American River Parkway, Sacramento, CA, Six
Woodpecker, In the woods. Foresthill, CA
By Daniela Ogden
October 07, 2011
A New Colony of Caspian Tern Decoys on Aramburu Island
Richardson Bay Audubon Center is attacting breeding pairs of Caspian Terns with these newly painted tern decoys—a strategy successfully used by previous tern relocation efforts.
