WE EACH WATCH FOR BIRDS IN OUR YARD OR PATCHES — HOWEVER, AND HOW MANY, YOU WISH TO DEFINE THAT TO BE — AND KEEP A LIST OF THEM TO SHARE EACH MONTH IN THE BIRD RACE DIARY IN SOME WAY. WE WILL EACH BE KEEPING TRACK OF OUR OWN BIRD LISTS. EBIRD IS A VERY EASY WAY TO DO THAT. OR YOU CAN WRITE THEM DOWN IN A NOTEBOOK.OR YOU CAN TAKE PICTURES AND ADD THEM TO A FOLDER ON YOUR COMPUTER. |
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If you progress or journey through the yr, it might be very attention-grabbing to match the yard birds you see in several settings! |
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My Yard is the realm round my house advanced. My Patch is my yard plus a close-by park with ponds. My different groupings are County, State, US and above.
January had good climate most days that I used to be in a position to get out and I had good luck find a lot of species. I acquired a pleasant shock for my County and State life lists when an immature “Olympic Gull” seen early within the yr was discovered to be inside the anticipated vary for a Western Gull in its age vary. It was the tenth Western Gull licensed by the Nevada Bird Records Committee. This elevated my State life whole to 287 and my County whole to 276 species.
January offered me with 20 species for my yard:
| Common Name |
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| American Crow |
| American Robin |
| California Gull |
| California Scrub-Jay |
| Canada Goose |
| Cooper’s Hawk |
| Dark-eyed Junco |
| Eurasian Collared-Dove |
| European Starling |
| House Finch |
| House Sparrow |
| Lesser Goldfinch |
| Mallard |
| Mountain Chickadee |
| Mourning Dove |
| Northern Flicker |
| Ring-billed Gull |
| Rock Pigeon |
| Yellow-rumped Warbler |
29 species for my patch:
| Common Name |
|---|
| American Coot |
| American Crow |
| American Robin |
| Black-crowned Night-Heron |
| Brewer’s Blackbird |
| California Gull |
| California Scrub-Jay |
| Canada Goose |
| Common Merganser |
| Cooper’s Hawk |
| Dark-eyed Junco |
| Eurasian Collared-Dove |
| European Starling |
| Gadwall |
| Graylag Goose |
| Great-tailed Grackle |
| Hooded Merganser |
| House Finch |
| House Sparrow |
| Lesser Goldfinch |
| Mallard |
| Mountain Chickadee |
| Mourning Dove |
| Northern Flicker |
| Pied-billed Grebe |
| Ring-billed Gull |
| Rock Pigeon |
| Swan Goose |
| Yellow-rumped Warbler |
and 108 species for County, State and Country:
| Common Name |
|---|
| American Coot |
| American Crow |
| American Goldfinch |
| American Kestrel |
| American Pipit |
| American Robin |
| American White Pelican |
| American Wigeon |
| Bald Eagle |
| Barrow’s Goldeneye |
| Belted Kingfisher |
| Bewick’s Wren |
| Black Phoebe |
| Black-billed Magpie |
| Black-crowned Night-Heron |
| Brewer’s Blackbird |
| Brown Creeper |
| Brown-headed Cowbird |
| Bufflehead |
| Cackling Goose |
| California Gull |
| California Quail |
| California Scrub-Jay |
| Canada Goose |
| Canvasback |
| Cassin’s Finch |
| Cedar Waxwing |
| Cinnamon Teal |
| Common Goldeneye |
| Common Merganser |
| Common Raven |
| Cooper’s Hawk |
| Dark-eyed Junco |
| Double-crested Cormorant |
| Downy Woodpecker |
| Dunlin |
| Eared Grebe |
| Eurasian Collared-Dove |
| Eurasian Wigeon |
| European Starling |
| Ferruginous Hawk |
| Gadwall |
| Glaucous-winged Gull |
| Golden Eagle |
| Golden-crowned Kinglet |
| Golden-crowned Sparrow |
| Greylag Goose |
| Great Blue Heron |
| Great Egret |
| Greater Yellowlegs |
| Great-tailed Grackle |
| Green-winged Teal |
| Hairy Woodpecker |
| Hermit Thrush |
| Herring Gull |
| Hooded Merganser |
| Horned Lark |
| House Finch |
| House Sparrow |
| Iceland Gull |
| Killdeer |
| Least Sandpiper |
| Lesser Black-backed Gull |
| Lesser Goldfinch |
| Lesser Scaup |
| Loggerhead Shrike |
| Mallard |
| Marsh Wren |
| Merlin |
| Mountain Bluebird |
| Mountain Chickadee |
| Mourning Dove |
| Northern Flicker |
| Northern Harrier |
| Northern Pintail |
| Northern Shoveler |
| Peregrine Falcon |
| Pied-billed Grebe |
| Purple Finch |
| Pygmy Nuthatch |
| Redhead |
| Red-tailed Hawk |
| Red-throated Loon |
| Red-winged Blackbird |
| Ring-billed Gull |
| Ring-necked Duck |
| Rock Pigeon |
| Ross’s Goose |
| Rough-legged Hawk |
| Ruby-crowned Kinglet |
| Ruddy Duck |
| Savannah Sparrow |
| Sharp-shinned Hawk |
| Short-billed Gull |
| Snow Goose |
| Song Sparrow |
| Spotted Towhee |
| Steller’s Jay |
| Swan Goose |
| Townsend’s Solitaire |
| Tundra Swan |
| Western Grebe |
| Western Meadowlark |
| White-breasted Nuthatch |
| White-crowned Sparrow |
| White-headed Woodpecker |
| Wood Duck |
| Yellow-rumped Warbler |
Now it’s your flip.
What observations did you have got in January?
Next Bird Race report day is March 16, 2024.
