Natural History Wanderings

We had our annual backyard bird count breakfast and count today.We set a record with 21 birds identified in our yard and a quarter-mile radius around our house in the North Berkeley flatlands. We also saw three gulls that we were unable to ID and heard one woodpecker drilling that we were unable to ID. We had a great breakfast of homemade cheese blintzes, wholewheat-banana muffins, Pistachio-Cherry refrigerator cookies, and fruit salad.

Here is the list the six of us came up with:

gull sp.  3
Mourning Dove  2
Anna’s Hummingbird  3
Western Scrub-Jay  1
American Crow  26
Common Raven  1
Chestnut-backed Chickadee  1
Oak Titmouse  2
Bushtit  6
Red-breasted Nuthatch  1
Bewick’s Wren  1
Ruby-crowned Kinglet  2
Northern Mockingbird  1
Cedar Waxwing  15
California Towhee  2
Fox Sparrow  3
White-crowned Sparrow  2
Golden-crowned Sparrow  1
Dark-eyed Junco  3
House Finch  1
Lesser Goldfinch  1
House Sparrow  6