Natural History Wanderings

List Updated with additions from Clayton Anderson

Today I went birding on a Golden Gate Audubon Trip led by Clayton Anderson. The trip was on Park Drive and the area around it, which is closed in the winter to protect Newts. Highlights for me were seeing a Red-Breasted Sapsucker and a number of Golden-crowned Kinglets. There were many good looks at Red-breasted Nuthatches and Brown Creepers. The group identified 33 bird species. No newts were seen except one that was squashed. I did seen a brush rabbit on the way out.

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Tilden Regional Park – Park Drive area Bird List 12/4/16

32 species (+1 other taxa)

Red-tailed Hawk  1
gull sp.  X
Anna’s Hummingbird  X
Red-breasted Sapsucker  X
Nuttall’s Woodpecker  X
Downy Woodpecker  X
Northern Flicker  X
Steller’s Jay  X
California Scrub-Jay  X
American Crow  4
Common Raven  X
Chestnut-backed Chickadee  X
Oak Titmouse  X
Bushtit (Pacific)  1
Red-breasted Nuthatch  X
Pygmy Nuthatch  X
Brown Creeper  X
Bewick’s Wren  X
Golden-crowned Kinglet  X
Ruby-crowned Kinglet  X
Wrentit  X
Hermit Thrush  X
American Robin  X
Varied Thrush  2
Yellow-rumped Warbler  X
Townsend’s Warbler  X
Fox Sparrow (Sooty)  1
Dark-eyed Junco  X
Golden-crowned Sparrow  X
Song Sparrow  1
California Towhee  X
Spotted Towhee  X
Lesser Goldfinch  X