Morning Birding Species List | July 14, 2015

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Tuesday, July 14, 2015, 6:30AM – 9:30AM
Weather: mostly sunny
Locations: Rock Bottom Ranch

Species Identified
Canada Goose (pictured above) Mallard Great Blue Heron Red-tailed Hawk Sora Rock Pigeon Eurasian-collared Dove Broad-tailed Hummingbird Lewis’s Woodpecker Red-naped Sapsucker Northern Flicker Western Wood-peewee		Cordilleran Flycatcher Black-billed Magpie American Crow Tree Swallow Violet-green Swallow Black-capped Chickadee Mountain Chickadee White-breasted Nuthatch House Wren Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Mountain Bluebird		Townsend’s Solitaire American Robin Gray Catbird European Starling Yellow Warbler Song Sparrow Black-headed Grosbeak Red-winged Blackbird Brown-headed Cowbird Bullock’s Oriole American goldfinch

Comments:
The summer breeding season is peaking now with many fledglings leaving nests and on the wing. We saw hatch-year Canada Geese, Mallards, Yellow Warblers, Red-wing Blackbirds, Great Blue Herons, and Lewis’s Woodpeckers. They were interacting with parents, mostly with begging behaviors and calls while parents flew to them with food. These exciting observations are excellent opportunities to enhance birding experience and to learn field marks of juveniles. It’s also a treat to see nesting success and bird families doing their thing. Our birding group today included novices to expert birders, underscoring the value of birding in a group to benefit from the rich discussions and shared observations. Summer will continue to deliver many more exciting bird observations! 

~ Rebecca Weiss, ACES Bird Guide