My Backyard

My backyard seems to be a very good habitat for birds, considering I've seen over fifty different species there.  It is also home to a variety of other creatures: various little invertebrates, lizards, raccoons, opossums, skunks, gophers, and some others.

Here is the bird list for my backyard so far.  Birds only seen flying over are in blue.

• Double-crested Cormorant
• Great Blue Heron
• White-faced Ibis
• Mallard
• Turkey Vulture
• Cooper's Hawk
• Sharp-shinned Hawk
• Red-shouldered Hawk
• Red-tailed Hawk
• American Kestrel
• Merlin
• Killdeer
• Ring-billed Gull
• Rock Dove (Pigeon)
• Mourning Dove
• Eurasian Collared-Dove
• Barn Owl
• Great Horned Owl
• White-throated Swift
• Anna's Hummingbird
• Allen's Hummingbird
• Northern Flicker
• Nuttall's Woodpecker
• Western Wood-Pewee
• Pacific-Slope Flycatcher
• Black Phoebe
• Ash-throated Flycatcher
• Cassin's Kingbird
• Western Kingbird
• Bell's Vireo
• Hutton's Vireo
• California Scrub-Jay
• American Crow
• Common Raven
• Tree swallow
• Northern Rough-winged Swallow
• Cliff Swallow
• Mountain Chickadee
• Bushtit
• Bewick's Wren
• House Wren
• Ruby-crowned Kinglet
• Western Bluebird
• American Robin
• Swainson's Thrush
• Hermit Thrush
• Northern Mockingbird
• Phainopepla
• Cedar Waxwing
• European Starling
• Orange-crowned Warbler
• Yellow Warbler
• Townsend's Warbler
• Black-throated Gray Warbler
• Yellow-rumped Warbler
• Black-and-White Warbler
• MacGillivray's Warbler
• Western Tanager
• Black-headed Grosbeak
• California Towhee
• Spotted Towhee
• Savannah Sparrow
• Song Sparrow
• Lincoln's Sparrow
• Dark-eyed Junco (Oregon subspecies)
• White-crowned Sparrow
• Hooded Oriole
• Bullock's Oriole
• Brewer's Blackbird
• Rusty Blackbird
• Brown-headed Cowbird
• House Finch
• Lesser Goldfinch
• House Sparrow

Here are a bunch photos of my yard.