Claremont Canyon – Nov 11-12

Claremont Canyon

Brown Creeper (pair)
Red-breasted Sapsucker
Red-breasted Nuthatch (5)
Downy Woodpecker (female)
Northern Flicker
Townsend’s Warbler
Chestnut-backed Chickadee
Western Scrub Jay
Stellar’s Jay
Bewick’s Wren
California Towhee
Spotted Towhee
Song Sparrow
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Hermit Thrush (h)
Wrentit
California Quail (h)
Red-tailed Hawk

Bodega Bay & Shollenberger Park / Petaluma – Nov 6

— Bodega Bay —

Black Phoebe
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Audobon and Myrtle)
Fox Sparrow
Song Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow
Golden-crowned Sparrow
House Finch
House Sparrow

American Wigeon
Mallard
Northern Shoveler
Surf Scoter
Bufflehead

Pied-billed Grebe
Western Grebe
Clark’s Grebe

American White Pelican
Brown Pelican

Brandt’s Cormorant
Double-crested Cormorant
Pelagic Cormorant

California Quail

Great Blue Heron

Northern Harrier
Cooper’s Hawk
Red-shouldered Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk

Peregrine Falcon

Black-bellied Plover
Semipalmated Plover
Killdeer
Black Oystercatcher
Greater Yellowlegs
Willet
Whimbrel
Marbled Godwit
Ruddy Turnstone
Black Turnstone
Sanderling
Dunlin

Bonaparte’s Gull
Heermann’s Gull
Mew Gull
Ring-billed Gull
California Gull
Herring Gull
Western Gull

— Shollenberger Park / Petaluma —

Mute Swan
American Avocet
Coot
Black-necked Stilt
Northern Shoveler
Ruddy Duck
Mallard
Canada Goose
Snowy Egret

Claremont Canyon – Nov 5

Claremont Canyon

Northern Flicker (heard only)
Western Bluebird (flock of 20 at top of hill at ‘indigo island’)
Dark eyed Junco (mixed into Western Bluebird flock in oak and on ground)
Ruby-crowned Kinglet (with crown!)
Townsend’s Warbler
Chestnut-backed Chickadee
Western Scrub Jay
Bewick’s Wren
Hermit Thrush (heard)
California Towhee
Spotted Towhee
Song Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow
Golden-crowned Sparrow

Claremont Canyon – Nov 4

Claremont Canyon

Northern Flicker
Oak Titmouse (Stonewall entrance)
Townsend’s Warbler (high in Eucalyptus at base of Stonewall)
Chestnut-backed Chickadee
Western Scrub Jay
Stellar’s Jay
Pacific Slope Flycatcher (sallying back / forth at Stonewall entrance)
Bewick’s Wren
Hermit Thrush (2 sitting together briefly)
California Towhee
Spotted Towhee
Fox Sparrow
Song Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow
Golden-crowned Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
House Finch
Lesser Goldfinch
Townsend’s Warbler

Claremont and Strawberry Canyons – October 1 — 15

Claremont and Strawberry Canyon
(all species seen in both canyons except BGGN)

Blue-gray Gnatcatcher (10/15/10 – 1st time seen at Claremont Cyn)
Anna’s Hummingbird
Hairy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Black Phoebe
Oak Titmouse
Chestnut-backed Chickadee
Western Scrub Jay

Stellar’s Jay
Red-breasted Nuthatch
Ruby-crowned Kinglet (1st on 10/12/10)
Bewick’s Wren
Hermit Thrush
Cedar Waxwings
Wrentit
California Towhee
Spotted Towhee
Fox Sparrow
Song Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow
Golden-crowned Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
House Finch
Lesser Goldfinch

Claremont and Strawberry Canyons – Sept. 30, 2010

Claremont Canyon

Western Scrub Jay
Stellar’s Jay
Anna’s Hummingbird
Northern Flicker (h)
Red-breasted Nuthatch (h)
Bewick’s Wren (h)
Wrentit (h)
Lesser Goldfinch
Chestnut-backed Chickadee
California Towhee
Spotted Towhee (h)
Dark-eyed Junco
Song Sparrow
Great Horned Owl (2, 1 harnking)
Rufous-crowned Sparrow (life first for Erica, John not present)
Golden-crowned Sparrows (h)

 

Strawberry Canyon
Anna’s Hummingbird
Townsend’s Warbler
Red-breasted Nuthatch (h)
Bewick’s Wren (h)
Wrentit (h)
California Towhee
Spotted Towhee (h)
Dark-eyed Junco
Song Sparrow

 

 

Claremont Canyon / Strawberry Canyon – Sept 12

Claremont Canyon (above Stonewall) 6:30pm

* Bushtit
* Bewick's Wren
* American Robin
* Wrentit
* Spotted Towhee
* Song Sparrow

Claremont Canyon to Strawberry Canyon connector trail

* Hermit Warbler!!!  (top of pine on south side)
* Townsends Warbler
* Wilson's Warbler

Strawberry Canyon

* Wrentit
* Spotted Towhee
* Swainson Thrush (heard multiple drips in Woodbridge Metcalf Redwood Grove)