Highlights:

• Bushtits
• And the returning winter species, see list.

Semi-complete List
(complete for species seen, but not complete quantities)

• Double-crested Cormorant – 20
• Great Blue Heron – 1
• Black Vulture – 2
• Turkey Vulture – 2
• Red-tailed Hawk – 3 (one was a very dark morph)
• Eurasian Collared-Dove – 2
• White-winged Dove – 2
• Mourning Dove – 4
• Greater Roadrunner – 1
• Northern Flicker – 3, red-shafted; 1 yellow-shafted
• Eastern Phoebe – 1
• Scissor-tailed Flycatcher – 2
• Loggerhead Shrike – 2
• Blue Jay – 2
• Western Scrub-Jay – 2
• Common Raven – 2
• Carolina Chickadee – 2
• Bushtit – 6
• Bewick’s Wren – 1 (chasing the intruding House Wren)
• House Wren – 1 (running from the resident Bewick’s)
• Ruby-crowned Kinglet – 1
• Orange-crowned Warbler – 1
• Spotted Towhee – 1
• Canyon Towhee – 1
• Field Sparrow – 1
• Vesper Sparrow – 3
• White-crowned Sparrow – 8
• Northern Cardinal – 5
• Pyrrhuloxia – 1
• Meadowlark species – 3
• American Goldfinch – 1 (seen overhead)
• House Sparrow – 12

Mammals:

• Coyote – 1, in a fresh cut field, no doubt looking for displaced rodents
• Hog-nosed Skunk – 1, argued with a vehicle and lost. But since I’ve never seen one, I had to take its picture. Don’t worry…no blood shows

Sightings by LgPacker and HT. Roads traveled: CR 613, 207, 196, 195, 194, 186, 184, and not necessarily in that order.