Wintering Sparrows in CA

Young White-crowned

Older White-crowned

Golden-crowned

Savannah

Singing Sparrows

White-crowned Sparrows

Oddly pear shaped bird.

White-crowned Ruffle

White-crowned Sparrow at the fish docks.

October

Owl banding has been steady in the last few days, catching 30-50 birds per night.  Last night we ended September with 636 owls, including four Long-eareds.  This month we'll be hoping for more and more Saw-whets, lots of Long-eareds in a couple of weeks, and possibly some Boreal Owls!

Yellow-rumped Warbler


Red-breasted Nuthatches hatching


White-crowned Sparrows, a hatch year in the foreground and an after hatch year in the back.

Some birds

Swamp


Fox, Golden-crowned, White-crowned


Black-throated blue

Potter

Today it was too windy to run the nets so instead we set up some potter traps (the traps I used to catch those chickadees in Duluth) around our site, using bird seed as bait. We ended up catching around 13 birds, which was pretty good, but checking them every 15 minutes got tiring. We got a wrentit, a couple spotted towhees, a nuttall's white crowned sparrow, a few golden crowned sparrows, a couple song sparrows, a few fox sparrows.

Here are some bad pictures!

Nets


white crowned sparrow


golden crowned sparrow


song sparrow


diana with a spotted towhee


spotted towhee

Birds at zion

Stellar's Jay:


White-crowned sparrow:


American dipper (the only song bird that regularly swims):