New birds sighted this year to date (not necessarily new birds for us and not including ones we've already seen in and around Olympia in 2011); in the interest of space efficiency, I am only indicating the location where a bird was first seen on our trip, not every location:
So. Oregon – Acorn Woodpeckers
Paradise, CA – Lesser Goldfinch, California Towhee, Anna's Hummingbird, Golden-Crowned Sparrow, House Finch
Oroville, CA – Great Egret, Snowy Egret, Cedar Waxwing, Common Merganzer, Yellow-Rumped Warbler
Ord Bend Park (on the Sacramento River) – Black Phoebe, Western Bluebird, White-Crowned Sparrow
Colusa National Wildlife Refuge, Colusa, CA – White-Fronted Goose, Cinnamon Teal, Dusky Flycatcher, White-Faced Ibis, Long-Billed Curlew, Black-Necked Stilt, Black-Crowned Night Heron, Sand Hill Crane
Desert Hot Springs, CA – Mourning Dove, Costa's Hummingbird, Great-Tailed Grackle
Rancho Bernardo Community Park and Lake Hodges, Rancho Bernardo, CA – Brewer's Blackbird, Audubon's Warbler (a species of Yellow-Rumped Warbler), Bushtit (we did see these at the end of our driveway at home for the first time earlier this year; must be migrants), Cassin's Kingbird, Says Phoebe, Tree Swallow, Meadowlark, Western Grebe
Buena Vista Lagoon, Oceanside, CA – Brown Pelican
Batiquitos Lagoon, Encinitas, CA – Willet, Green-Winged Teal, Marbled Godwit
Santee Lakes at Padre Dam, Santee, CA – Double-crested Cormorants, Wood Ducks, Ruddy Ducks, Pied-Billed Grebe, Ring-Necked Duck, Northern Shoveler, American Goldfinch, Great Blue Heron, Red-Winged Blackbird, Green Heron, Belted Kingfisher, Nuttal's Woodpecker
Tijuana River Estuary, South San Diego Bay – Ash-Throated Flycatcher, Long-billed Dowitcher, American Avocet in breeding plumage (whoo-hoo!), Kestrel
Borrego Springs, CA – Ferruginous Hawk
Wiest and Finney Lakes and Salton Sea, CA, (south end) – Burrowing Owls, Northern Rough-Winged Swallow, Caspian Tern, Rufous-Crowned Sparrow, White Pelican, Abert's Towhee, Roadrunner, Moorhen, Eurasian Collared Dove, American Avocets in winter plumage, Cattle Egrets, Gambel's Quail, House Sparrow, Chipping Sparrow, Golden Plover, Violet Green Swallow, Cinnamon Teal, Pintail Duck, Eared Grebe in winter plumage, Glaucous-Winged Gull, California Gull, Killdeer
Boulder City, NV – Verdin (whoo-hoo!)
Floyd R. Lamb State Park at Tule Springs, North Las Vegas, NV – Red-Breasted Nuthatch, Slate Colored Junco (a color variation of the Dark-Eyed Junco)
Zion National Park on the Colorado River – Common Mergansers (unexpected here)
Hwy 89A on the way to Marble Canyon, AZ – Mountain Bluebird
Black Canyon City, AZ north of Phoenix – Curve-Billed Thrasher
Sweetwater Wetlands, Tucson, AZ – Blue-Winged Teal
Catalina State Park, Tucson, AZ – Gila Woodpecker, Vermillion Flycacher, Cardinal, Black-Tailed Gnat Catcher, Pyrroloxia, Ladderback Woodpecker, Lesser Goldfinch, Canyon Towhee, Ruby-Crowned Kinglet, Cooper's Hawk, Common Yellow Throat (Warbler), Yellow Warbler,
Scott's Oriole (?)
Roger Road Water Treatment Plant & Ponds, Tucson, AZ – Harris Hawk
Sweetwater Wetlands (again) – Tucson, AZU – Yellow-headed Blackbird, Red-winged Blackbird (in display), Cactus Wren, Juvenile Spotted Sandpiper
Buenos Aires NWR, Arivaca, AZ – Orange-crowned Warbler, Black Vulture, Marsh Wren, Loggerhead Shrike (endangered), Cassin's Sparrow, Allen's Hummingbird
Madera Canyon, South of Green Valley, AZ – Painted Redstart (display behavior), Mexican Jay, Yellow-eyed Junco, Acorn Woodpecker, House Wren, White-breasted Nuthatch, Broad-billed Hummingbird, Hepatic Tanager, Bridled Titmouse, Wild Turkey, Cassin's Kingbird (?), Juniper Titmouse (?)
Kartchner Caverns State Park, Benson, AZ – Black-throated Sparrow
Huachuca Canyon, Fort Huachuca Army Base, near Sierra Vista, AZ – mob of Wild Turkeys
Bisbee, Az – White-winged Dove
Highway 181, Chiricahua National Wildlife Refuge, Sunizona, AZ – Evening Grosbeak
Pinery Canyon Road, from Chiricahua NWR to Portal – Prairie Falcons, Botteri's Sparrow, Band-tailed Pigeons
Portal Cafe Bird Feeders, Portal, AZ – Pine Siskins
Other Critters Seen Throughout Our Travels – Coyotes, Bobcat, Mule Deer, Ground Squirrels, Jackrabbits, Bunnies, Deer (? - Madera Canyon), Stink Bugs (Beetles)
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