2021 - Annual Bird List (3 Lifers)

 Well, 2020 sucked, but Huzzah! Trip to Utqiagvik, aka Barrow, AK with Yellowbilled Tours happened, and birding above the Arctic Circle is always a trip to heaven. 

1. Snow Goose
2. Greater White-fronted Goose
3. Brant
4. Cackling Goose
5. Canada Goose
6. Trumpeter Swan
7. Tundra Swan
8. Northern Shoveler
9. Gadwall
10. Eurasian Wigeon
11. American Wigeon
12. Mallard
13. Northern Pintail
14. Green-winged Teal
15. Canvasback
16. Ring-necked Duck
17. Greater Scaup
18. Steller's Eider
19. Spectacled Eider
20. King Eider
21. Harlequin Duck
22. Surf Scoter
23. Long-tailed Duck
24. Bufflehead
25. Common Goldeneye
26. Hooded Merganser
27. Common Merganser
28. Red-breasted Merganser
29. Ruddy Duck
30. California Quail
31. Sooty Grouse
32. Pied-billed Grebe
33. Horned Grebe
34. Western Grebe
35. Rock Pigeon
36. Band-tailed Pigeon
37. Eurasian Collared-Dove
38. Mourning Dove
39. Anna's Hummingbird
40. Rufous Hummingbird
41. American Coot
42. Sandhill Crane
43. Black Oystercatcher 
44. Black-bellied Plover
45. American Golden-Plover
46. Pacific Golden-Plover
47. Semipalmated Plover
48. Killdeer 
49. Ruddy Turnstone
50. Black Turnstone
51. Sanderling
52. Dunlin
53. Baird's Sandpiper
54. White-rumped Sandpiper
55. Pectoral Sandpiper
56. Semipalmated Sandpiper
57. Western Sandpiper
    
58. Least Sandpiper
59. Long-billed Dowitcher
60. Red-necked Phalarope
61. Red Phalarope
62. Greater Yellowlegs
63. Pomarine Jaeger
64. Parasitic Jaeger
65. Long-tailed Jaeger
66. Pigeon Guillemot
67. Sabine's Gull
68. Heerman's Gull
69. California Gull
70. Glaucous Gull
71. Caspian Tern
72. Arctic Tern
73. Red-throated Loon
74. Pacific Loon
75. Common Loon
76. Double-crested Cormorant
77. Pelagic Cormorant
78. Great Blue Heron
79. Turkey Vulture
80. Bald Eagle
81. Northern Harrier
82. Cooper's Hawk
83. Red-tailed Hawk
84. Snowy Owl
85. Great Horned Owl (H)
86. Barn Owl (H)
87. Belted Kingfisher
88. Red-breasted Sapsucker
89. Downy Woodpecker
90. Northern Flicker
91. American Kestrel
92. Northern Shrike
93. Peregrine Falcon
94. Steller's Jay
95. Black-billed Magpie
96. American/Northwestern Crow
97. Common Raven
98. Tree Swallow
99. Violet-Green Swallow
100. Northern Rough-winged Swallow
101. Cliff Swallow
102. Barn Swallow
103. Black-capped Chickadee
104. Bushtit
105. Red-breasted Nuthatch
106. Brown Creeper
107. Marsh Wren
108. Golden-crowned Kinglet
109. American Robin
110. Varied Thrush
111. Eurasian Starling
112. Cedar Waxwing
113. House Sparrow
114. American Pipit
115. House Finch
116. Common Redpoll
117. Pine Siskin
118. American Goldfinch
119. Lapland Longspur
120. Snow Bunting
121. Spotted Towhee
122. Savannah Sparrow
123. Fox Sparrow
124. Song Sparrow
125. White-crowned Sparrow
126. Golden-crowned Sparrow
127. Dark-eyed Junco
128. Red-winged Blackbird
129. Great-tailed Grackle
     
130. Brewer's Blackbird
131. Orange-crowned Warbler
132. Yellow-rumped Warbler

Steller's Eider 
Utqiagvik, AK - 6 June  2021

King eider
Utqiagvik, AK - 7 June 2021

Spectacled Eider 
Utqiagvik, AK - 8 June 2021

Mammals for 2021

Mule Deer

Roosevelt Elk 

River Otter:              Ediz Hook - 2nd time I've seen River Otter in salt water

Long-tailed Weasel: Ran down the road at my house, then spent the day dodging in and out of gopher                                      holes
Harbor Seal

Black Bear:               Saw 2 on separate occasions at the top of Hurricane Ridge, Olympic National Park

Shrew (Species?): recently deceased back yard shrew, now taking up room in my freezer