June birding

 

It was a good June for birds.  We traveled through New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, Arizona, Nevada, and California.  We didn’t bird all the time, but just by being all those different places, we stumbled into a good variety.

 

We saw Gambel’s Quail, Cassin’s Kingbird, Crissal Thrasher, Phainopepla, Lucy’s Warbler, and Allen’s Hummingbird at Bosque del Apache in New Mexico.

 

Common Mergansers, Townsend’s Solitaire, Swainson’s Thrush, Western Scrub-jay, Lewis’s Woodpecker, and Cordilleran Flycatcher in Colorado.

 

Juniper Titmouse in Nevada.

 

Gila Woodpecker in Arizona.

 

California Quail, Prairie Falcon, Nuttall’s Woodpecker, Wrentit, and California Towhee in Vista.

 

Heerman’s Gull, Western Gull, and California Gull, in Oceanside.

 

Band-tailed Pigeon, Anna’s Hummingbird, Acorn Woodpecker, White-headed Woodpecker, Oak Titmouse (the first time ever we’ve gotten Juniper Titmouse and Oak Titmouse in the same year), Pygmy Nuthatch, Dark-eyed Junco, Lawrence’s Goldfinch, and Purple Finch in the San Gabriel Mountains.

 

 

In total:

 

Canada Goose

Mallard

Common Merganser

Ruddy Duck

California Quail

Gambel's Quail

Western Grebe

Double-crested Cormorant

American White Pelican

Brown Pelican

Great Blue Heron

Great Egret

Snowy Egret

Cattle Egret

Green Heron

White-faced Ibis

Turkey Vulture

Northern Harrier

Cooper's Hawk

Swainson's Hawk

Red-tailed Hawk

American Kestrel

Prairie Falcon

American Coot

Killdeer

Franklin's Gull

Heermann's Gull

Western Gull

California Gull

Least Tern

Gull-billed Tern

Caspian Tern

Forster's Tern

Rock Pigeon

Band-tailed Pigeon

Eurasian Collared-Dove

White-winged Dove

Mourning Dove

Inca Dove

Greater Roadrunner

Great Horned Owl

Lesser Nighthawk

Common Nighthawk

Black-chinned Hummingbird

Anna's Hummingbird

Broad-tailed Hummingbird

Allen's Hummingbird

Acorn Woodpecker

Gila Woodpecker

Ladder-backed Woodpecker

Nuttall's Woodpecker

White-headed Woodpecker

Northern Flicker

Olive-sided Flycatcher

Western Wood-Pewee

Willow Flycatcher

Dusky Flycatcher

Black Phoebe

Say's Phoebe

Vermilion Flycatcher

Brown-crested Flycatcher

Cassin's Kingbird

Western Kingbird

Gray Vireo

Warbling Vireo

Steller's Jay

Blue Jay

Western Scrub-Jay

Black-billed Magpie

American Crow

Common Raven

Northern Rough-winged Swallow

Tree Swallow

Violet-green Swallow

Barn Swallow

Cliff Swallow

Black-capped Chickadee

Mountain Chickadee

Oak Titmouse

Juniper Titmouse

Verdin

Bushtit

White-breasted Nuthatch

Pygmy Nuthatch

Cactus Wren

Rock Wren

House Wren

Wrentit

Western Bluebird

Mountain Bluebird

American Robin

Northern Mockingbird

European Starling

Phainopepla

Lucy's Warbler

Yellow Warbler

Common Yellowthroat

Spotted Towhee

California Towhee

Abert's Towhee

Vesper Sparrow

Lark Sparrow

Black-throated Sparrow

Sage Sparrow

White-crowned Sparrow

Dark-eyed Junco

Black-headed Grosbeak

Lazuli Bunting

Red-winged Blackbird

Western Meadowlark

Yellow-headed Blackbird

Brewer's Blackbird

Common Grackle

Great-tailed Grackle

Brown-headed Cowbird

Hooded Oriole

Bullock's Oriole

Purple Finch

Cassin's Finch

House Finch

Lesser Goldfinch

Lawrence's Goldfinch

American Goldfinch

House Sparrow

 

The White-headed Woodpecker and Lawrence’s Goldfinch were Life Birds for us.