2011 Birding

A nice start to 2011 with the beginning of our AZ Big Year List...

Christmas Bird Count 2010 - Wickenburg Area VIII

Christmas Bird Count 2010 - Wickenburg Area VIII
A fun day birding...
Christmas Bird Count 2010
Wickenburg - AREA VIII
Aberts Towhee 7
American Kestral 1
Anna' Hummingbird 13
Ash-throated Flycatcher 1
Black-throated Sparrow 26
Blue-gray Gnatcather 10
Cactus Wren 15
Cedar Waxwing 3
Common Raven 5
Coopers Hawk 2
Costa's Hummingbird 2
Curb-billed Thrasher 2
Eurasian Dove 2
European Starlings 8
Gambel's Quail 22
Gambel's White-crowned Sparrow 55
Gila Woodpecker 39
Gilded Flicker 5
Gray Hawk 1
Great-tailed Grackle 10
Harris Hawk 2
House Finch 106
House Sparrow 34
Inca 6
Ladder-back Woodpecker 1
Lesser Goldfinch 11
Loggerhead Shrike 4
Mourning dove 232
Northern Cardinal 6
Northern Mockingbird 13
Northern Pintail 13
Phanopepla 97
Red Shafted Flicker 1
Red Tail Hawk 6
Red Wing Blackbirds 96
Red-naped Sapsucker 1
Rock Dove 11
Ruddy Ground Dove 2
Says Phoebe 2
Sharp Shinned Hawk 3
Verdin 9
Yellow Rumped Warblers 7
TOTAL 892 (42 Species)

The Smith House Bird List

Okay, I should have done this years ago. We have had so many awesome birds visit this yard. It is time to get the list in play... I will post any feeder and other photos around this yard that I can find.
here we go...

Current unusuals to see! ...
Dickesell
Vesper Sparrow
Sage Thrasher


List as of 2007 to present...

*indicates a rare visitor

Gambel's Quail

Turkey Vulture

Hawks
Red Tailed
Harris Hawk
Swainson's
Gray Hawk

Osprey

Golden Eagle

American Kestral
Peregrine Falcon

Killdeer


Doves
White-winged Dove
Eurasian Dove
Inca Doves
Ruddy Dove*

Greater Roadrunner


Owls
Great Horned Owl
Burrowing Owl
Short-eared Owl

NightJars
Lesser Nighthawks
Whip-poor-will

Hummingbirds
Anna's Hummingbird
Rufus Hummingbird
Black-Chinned Hummingbird
Costa's Hummingbird

Woodpeckers
Gila Woodpecker
Ladder-backed Woodpecker
Yellow-Shafted Flicker

Tyrants
Say's Phoebe
Western Kingbirds

Shrikes
Loggerhead Shrike

Corvids
Common Raven

Larks
Horned Lark

Swallows
N Rough-Winged
Cliff Swallow

Verdins & Bushtits
Verdin

Nuthatches & Creepers
White-breasted Nuthatch

Wrens
Cactus Wrens
Rock Wren

Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Black-tailed Gnatcatcher

Thrushes

Townsend Solitaire

Monckingbirds, Thrashers, & Allies
Bendire Thrashers
Curved-Billed Thrasher
Sage Thrasher
Northern Cardinals

European Starling

Phainopepla

Warblers
Nashville Warbler
Yellow-Rumped Warbler
Yellow Warblers

Western Tanager

Emberinzines
Abert Towhees
House Sparrow
House Finch
White Crowned Sparrows
Vesper Sparrow
Lark Sparrow
Oregon Juncos

Cardinals, Grosbeaks & Allies
Northern Cardinal
Black-headed Grosebeak
Lazuli Bunting
Blue Grosebeak

Icterines
Common Grackle
Western Meadow Lark
Red Winged Blackbirds
Yellow Headed Blackbirds
Bronze-headed Blackbird
Hooded Oriole
Bullock's Oriole

Finches
House Finch
Cassin's Finch
Lesser Goldfinch
Lawerence's