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Yesterday afternoon brought a new year bird to the yard with species 100! And then today I *finally* added overdue warblers!
100. Purple Finch
101. Pine Warbler
102. Hermit Thrush
103. Yellow-rumped Warbler
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The fundraiser walk on Saturday gave me 3 new year birds.
96. Ruby-crowned Kinglet
97. Purple Martin
98. Swamp Sparrow
And then the following day was my first of the Epic Migration Hawks!
99. Broad-winged Hawk
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98. Lesser goldfinch
99. Yellow chevroned parakeet
wow. couldn't have seen one more bird before adding to this list? Still, 99 unique birds through April.
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84. Red-throated loon
85. Pacific loon
86. Common murre
87. Glaucous-winged gull
88. Rock dove (pigeon)
89. Brandt's cormorant
90. Pelagic cormorant
91. Royal tern
92. Elegant tern
93. Northern mockingbird
94. Heerman's gull
95. Surfbird
96. Barn swallow
97. Hooded oriole
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69. Northern pintail
70. Eared grebe
71. Brown pelican
72. Redhead
73. American wigeon
74. Say's phoebe
75. Killdeer
76. California gull
77. Western gull
78. Ring-billed gull
79. Caspian tern
80. Black-bellied plover
81. Western sandpiper
82. Great-tailed grackle
83. House sparrow
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54. California scrub jay
55. Turkey vulture
56. Red-shouldered hawk
57. Red-breasted merganser
58. Willet
59. Hudsonian whimbrel
60. Marbled godwit
61. Long-billed curlew
62. Reddish egret
63. Surf scoter
64. Lesser scaup
65. Bufflehead
66. Sanderling
67. Least sandpiper
68. Brant
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Oops, haven't been keeping this up to date.
44. GREAT HORNED OWL
45. Nuttall's woodpecker
46. California thrasher
47. Brewer's blackbird
48. Brown-headed cowbird
49. Oak titmouse
50. Dark-eyed junco
51. Common raven
52. Red-whiskered bulbul
53. Bewick's wren
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One from earlier this week and one from this morning. The hawk watch reported an early Indigo Bunting flyby this morning. I’m excited for my bird walks this weekend!
94. Brown-headed Cowbird
95. Chipping Sparrow
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New birds this evening on my first guided bird walk of spring. 2/3 local Mimidaes obtained; just need Catbirds to return!
89. Northern Mockingbird
90. Field Sparrow
91. Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
92. Brown Thrasher
93. Osprey
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New birds this evening on my first guided bird walk of spring. Been looking for the Sapsucker & Osprey since last week, so it was good to finally get them!
89. Northern Mockingbird
90. Field Sparrow
91. Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
92. Osprey
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And finally, a hodgepodge from the last 3 days of March!
80. Wilson’s Snipe
81. Belted Kingfisher
82. Horned Grebe
83. Redpoll
84. Caspian Tern
85. Tree Swallow
86. Common Raven
87. Winter Wren
88. Fox Sparrow
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Then we added late in the month a couple new birds from the yard, and a couple new birds from a community walk.
76. Eastern Towhee
77. Eastern Phoebe
78. Northern Flicker
79. Golden-crowned Kinglet
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Okay, let’s finish up March’s #birds! First up, assorted waterbirds added during our duck watch event. #waterfowl #gulls
68. Northern Shoveler
69. Bonaparte’s Gull
70. Green-winged Teal
71. Wood Duck
72. Common Loon
73. American Black Duck
74. Pied-billed Grebe
75. Trumpeter Swan
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And then we got our first proper hawk watching day and while it was mostly Turkey Vultures, some more new year birds were spotted as well.
64. Peregrine Falcon
65. Red-shouldered Hawk
66. Sharp-shinned Hawk
67. American Kestrel
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A couple days after the woodcock, a few more migrants showed up; the first two were picked up as flight calls overnight.
61. Killdeer
62. Song Sparrow
63. Common Grackle
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Started March off with my 60th bird for the year, a returning migratory shorebird. Only one so far, but I expect the next time I can survey the route early next week, there will be more.
PEENT!
60. American Woodcock
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Another round of waterfowl and gulls.
54. Mute Swan (Exotic Naturalized)
55. Glaucous Gull
56. Hooded Merganser
57. Gadwall
And the first migrant songbird of spring, plus a bonus wren wraps up February’s birds.
58. Red-winged Blackbird
59. Carolina Wren
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A trip to look for hawks & buntings. Found the target hawk, but dipped on the Snow Buntings.
49. Sandhill Crane
50. Eastern Bluebird
51. Rough-legged Hawk
52. Wild Turkey
A day of freak warm south winds and hot the first migrating raptor of the season!
53. Turkey Vulture
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Back to more waterfowl and a surprisingly early heron that must’ve found some melted wetlands somewhere nearby.
43. Greater Scaup
44. Great Blue Heron
45. Lesser Scaup
46. Surf Scoter
47. Canvasback
48. Lesser Black-backed Gull
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Ok, let’s catch up on all of February’s birds.
Another round of waterfowl watching.
36. Common Goldeneye
37. Red-breasted Merganser
38. Common Merganser
39. Bufflehead
40. American Coot
41. Redhead
Second owl of the year!
42. Eastern Screech-Owl
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I really need to get out actually birding again. There’s supposedly some open water by our Coast Guard station, so maybe I’ll check that out tomorrow morning. In the meantime, be blown away by this addition!😂
35. Rock Pigeon (feral)
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40. Tree swallow
41. Orange-crowned warbler
42. European starling
43. American crow
Think that's it so far, one month into 2026. Not bad.
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26. Great blue heron
27. Great egret
28. Snowy egret
29. Green heron
30. Black-crowned night heron
31. Belted kingfisher
32. Pied-billed grebe
33. Canada goose
34. Egyptian goose
35. Mourning dove
36. Osprey
37. Red-tailed hawk
38. Red-winged blackbird
39. House finch
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14. White-faced ibis
15. Greater yellowlegs
16. Mallard
17. Northern shoveler
18. Cinnamon teal
19. Green-winged teal
20. Blue-winged teal
21. Ruddy duck
22. Gadwall
21. Spotted towhee
22. Acorn woodpecker
23. Scaly-breasted munia
24. Cedar waxwing
25. Vermilion flycatcher
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1. Yellow-rumped warbler
2. Black phoebe
3. Song sparrow
4. White-crowned sparrow
5. Anna's hummingbird
6. Allen's hummingbird
7. California towhee
8. Bushtit
9. American white pelican
10. Western grebe
11. Double-crested cormorant
12. American coot
13. American avocet
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Did some Actual Birding yesterday to add a couple more species to the year list, including a new state bird.
30. American Goldfinch
31. Varied Thrush
32. Cedar Waxwing
33. Brown Creeper
34. Bald Eagle
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Starting off February with a banger of a year bird😂
29. European Starling
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Two more yard birds and a cool owl sighting when I was out aurora hunting the other night. …don’t think I’m gonna make a Jan 100 this year😅
26. American Robin
27. Short-eared Owl
28. Pileated Woodpecker
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Picked up 2 more species today, bringing me a quarter of the way to a January 100 (if I were a more ambitious sort, that is😅)
24. Black-capped Chickadee
25. Cooper’s Hawk
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11. Dark-eyed Junco
12. Mourning Dove
13. Downy Woodpecker
14. House Finch
15. White-breasted Nuthatch
16. Ring-billed Gull
17. American Herring Gull
18. Mallard
19. Ring-necked Duck
20. American Tree Sparrow
21. Great Black-backed Gull
22. Tundra Swan
23. Red-tailed Hawk
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