Yes, we’ve moved again…
To a lovely 130-year-old adobe farmhouse on 0.66 acres just outside the Bosque del Apache wildlife refuge.
And yes, it has birds!
So, I’m starting up a life list for the house. Every bird we’ve seen on the property (and when the cranes come I’ll include them as flyovers 🙂 but if they land, I’ll move them to “seen”.
(N) = nesting, nesting behaviors including gathering material, territorial and mating behavior.
Seen in the yard:
- Western Kingbird (N)
- Eurasian Collared-Dove (N)
- White-winged Doves (N)
- Ladder-backed Woodpecker (2020-9 excavated nest)
- Great-tailed Grackle (N)
- Common Grackle
- Raven (unsure if Common or Chihuahuan)
- White-crowned Sparrow (first seen again 9/20/20)
- Yellow-rumped Warbler – Audubon’s
- House Wren
- House Finch (N)
- House Sparrow (N)
- Lazuli Bunting
- Black-chinned Hummingbird (N)
- Brown Creeper
- Lesser Goldfinch (Green-backed form)
- Bullock’s Oriole
- Mourning Dove
- Ruby-crowned Kinglet
- Phainopepla (N)
- American Robin (N)
- Gamble’s Quail (N)
- Bewick’s Wren
- Black-headed Grosbeak
- Indigo Bunting
- Rose-breasted Grosbeak
- Say’s Phoebe
- Blue Grosbeak
- Brown-headed Cowbird (N)
- Red-winged Blackbird
- Northern Mockingbird (N)
- Curved-billed Thrasher
- Broad-tailed Hummingbird
- Rufus Hummingbird (returned – July 5, 2021)
- Western Tanager
- Peregrine Falcon – on pole eating a dragonfly
- Great-horned Owl (landed on utility pole and talked to us while we were observing at 4am, 9/21/2020 heard most nights early AM)
- Black-throated Gray Warbler (9/1/2020 – let the Fall Migration begin!)
- Warbling Vireo
- Western Wood Pewee
- One of the Empidonax flycatchers – likely a Gray (they like pine/juniper)
- Bushtits
- Pine Grosbeak
- Wilson’s Warbler
- Townsend’s Warbler
- Bell’s Vireo
- Red-breasted Nuthatch (aka Super Sonic)
- Nashville Warbler
- Cooper’s Hawk – in tree by house
- Oregon Junco – Red backed (arrived 9/29)
- Red-Shafted Flicker
- Hutton’s Vireo
- Pyrrhuloxia
- Spotted Towhee
- Canyon Towhee
- Starling
- Red-naped Sapsucker
- American Kestrel
- American Goldfinch
- Brewer’s Blackbird
- Western Meadowlark
- Hooded Oriole
- Harry Woodpecker
- Green-tailed Towhee
- Summer Tanager
- Calliope Hummingbird (July 19, 2021)
Heard Only:
Flyovers:
- White-faced Ibis (in V formation, thought they were snow geese – until I realized they were black)
- Great Blue Heron
- Sharp-shinned Hawk
- Barn Swallow
- Turkey Vulture
- Nighthawk – likely Common but not definitive.
- Red-tailed Hawk (Dark morph)
- Sandhill Crane (10-04-2020)
- Northern Harrier
- American Crow
- Snow Geese – thousands of them, just a dawn flying north.
- Swainson’s Hawk
- Flock of Cattle Egrets