Great Backyard Bird Count

Lexa and I stumbled across a mention of the The Great Backyard Bird Count while exploring the blogosphere last week.  It was a four day event in conjunction with Cornell and Audubon.  We decided to give it a go and submitted bird lists for Saturday, Sunday, and Monday! 

Saturday Number of Species: 13

All Reported: no

Checklist:

California Quail - 16

Red-tailed Hawk - 1

Mourning Dove - 15

Anna's Hummingbird - 1

Hairy Woodpecker - 1

Steller's Jay - 3

Black-capped Chickadee - 3

American Robin - 6

European Starling - 2

Spotted Towhee - 2

Dark-eyed Junco - 8

House Finch - 8

House Sparrow - 6

Sunday Number of Species: 17

All Reported: no

Checklist:

California Quail - 12

Red-tailed Hawk - 2

Mourning Dove - 36

Anna's Hummingbird - 1

Downy Woodpecker - 2

Hairy Woodpecker - 1

Northern Flicker (Red-shafted) - 1

Pileated Woodpecker - 1

Steller's Jay - 8

Western Scrub-Jay - 2

Black-capped Chickadee - 8

American Robin - 1

European Starling - 1

Spotted Towhee - 3

Dark-eyed Junco - 12

House Finch - 5

House Sparrow - 5

Monday Number of Species: 14

All Reported: no

Checklist:

California Quail - 16

Turkey Vulture - 1

Mourning Dove - 18

Anna's Hummingbird - 1

Hairy Woodpecker - 1

Northern Flicker (Red-shafted) - 3

Steller's Jay - 5

Western Scrub-Jay - 1

Black-capped Chickadee - 3

European Starling - 6

Spotted Towhee - 3

Dark-eyed Junco - 20

House Finch - 5

House Sparrow - 10

Lex and I had a good time working on it and Will helped us out on Monday - it's a good multi-generation family project!