Bird List - 2013 (232 ABA for the year)

This year's new lifers tally is six. There were two that I went after but missed - *heavy sigh*. There is yet a another, the uber rare Little Bunting that I could have had if I'd gone after it, but I stalled and the little rarity flew away. That is a lesson I thought I'd learned when I missed a Taiga Flycatcher several years ago. If I have any resolution for 2014 it is to not allow that kind of miss due to gumption ever again.  Still, the biggest surprises were the Greater Shearwater and the Gray Hawk. The Gray Hawk recently returned to Carpenteria, no longer in juvenile guise. I hope to start 2014 by going down to photograph that beautiful hawk in it's pretty new plumage. 

1. Greater White-fronted Goose
2. Snow Goose
3. Canada Goose
4. Cackling Goose
5. Brant
6. Mute Swan
7. Tundra Swan
8. Gadwall
9. American Wigeon
10. Mallard
11. Blue-winged Teal
12. Cinnamon Teal
13. Northern Shoveler
14. Ring-necked Duck
15. Northern Pintail
16. Green-winged Teal
17. Lesser Scaup
18. Harlequin Duck
19. Surf Scoter
20. White-winged Scoter
21. Long-tailed Duck
22. Bufflehead
23. Common Goldeneye
24. Barrow's Goldeneye
25. Hooded Merganser
26. Common Merganser
27. Red-breasted Merganser
28. Ruddy Duck
29. Ring-necked Pheasant
30. Wild Turkey
31. California Quail
32. Red-throated Loon
33. Pacific Loon
34. Arctic Loon
35. Common Loon
36. Pied-billed Grebe
37. Red-necked Grebe
38. Horned Grebe
39. Eared Grebe
40. Western Grebe
41. Black-footed Albatross
42. Clark's Grebe
43. Northern Fulmar
44. Pink-footed Shearwater
45. Greater Shearwater
46. Buller's Shearwater
47. Sooty Shearwater
48. Wilson's Storm-petrel
49. Ashy Storm-petrel
50. Black Storm-petrel
51. Blue-footed Booby
52. American White Pelican
53. Brown Pelican
54. Brant's Cormorant
55. Double-crested Cormorant
56. Pelagic Cormorant
57. Great Blue Heron
58. Great Egret
59. Snowy Egret
60. Reddish Egret
61. Cattle Egret
62. Green Heron
63. Black-crowned Night Heron
64. Yellow-crowned Night Heron 
65. White-faced Ibis
66. Black Vulture
67. Turkey Vulture
68. Osprey
69. Swallow-tailed Kite
70. White-tailed Kite
71. Bald Eagle
72. Northern Harrier
73. Cooper's Hawk 
74. Gray Hawk
75. Red-shouldered Hawk
76. Broad-winged Hawk
77. Swainson's Hawk
78. Red-tailed Hawk
79. Ferruginous Hawk 
80. Golden Eagle
81. American Kestrel
82. Peregrine Falcon 
83. Prairie Falcon
84. Common Moorhen
85. American Coot
86. Sandhill Crane
87. Black-bellied Plover
88. Semipalmated Plover
89. Killdeer
90. Black Oystercatcher
91. Black-necked Stilt 
92. American Avocet
93. Greater Yellowlegs 
94. Lesser Yellowlegs
95. Willet
96. Spotted Sandpiper
97. Long-billed Curlew 
98. Marbled Godwit
99. Black Turnstone
100. Surfbird
101. Sanderling
102. Western Sandpiper
103. Least Sandpiper
104. Dunlin 
105. Long-billed Dowitcher
106. Wilson's Snipe
107. Red-necked Phalarope 
108. Red Phalarope
109. South Polar Skua
110. Pomarine Jaeger
111. Parasitic Jaeger
112. Long-tailed Jaeger
113. Laughing Gull
114. Bonaparte's Gull 
115. Heerman's Gull
116. Mew Gull
117. Ring-billed Gull
118. California Gull 
119. Herring Gull
120. Western Gull
121. Glaucous-winged Gull 
122. Sabine's Gull
123. Caspian Tern
124. Elegant Tern
125. Common Tern 
126. Foster's Tern
127. Black Skimmer
128. Common Murre
129. Thick-billed Murre
130. Pigeon Guillemot
131. Rhinoceros Auklet
132. Tufted Puffin
133. Rock Pigeon 
134. Band-tailed Pigeon
135. Eurasian Collared-Dove
136. White-throated Swift
137. White-winged Dove
138. Mourning Dove
139. Barn Owl 
140. Short-eared Owl
141. Black-chinned Hummingbird
142. Anna's Hummingbird
143. Rufous Hummingbird
144. Allen's Hummingbird
145. Belted Kingfisher
146. Acorn Woodpecker 
147. Nuttall's Woodpecker
148. Downy Woodpecker
149. Hairy Woodpecker
150. Northern Flicker
151. Black Phoebe
152. Eastern Phoebe
153. Say's Phoebe 
154. Dusky-capped Flycatcher
155. Tropical Kingbird
156. Cassin's Kingbird
157. Western Kingbird
158. Loggerhead Shrike
159. Blue-headed Vireo
160. Hutton's Vireo 
161. Western Scrub Jay
162. Blue Jay 
163. Clark's Nutcracker
164. Black-billed Magpie
165. Yellow-billed Magpie
166. American Crow
167. Northwestern Crow
168. Common Raven
169. Horned Lark
170. Tree Swallow 
171. Cliff Swallow
172. Barn Swallow
173. Carolina Chickadee 
174. Black-capped Chickadee
175. Chestnut-backed Chickadee
176. Oak Titmouse
177. Tufted Titmouse
178. Bushtit
179. Red-breasted Nuthatch
180. White-breasted Nuthatch (yard bird!) 
181. Pygmy Nuthatch
182. Rock Wren
183. Carolina Wren
184. Bewick's Wren
185. Marsh Wren 
186. Golden-crowned Kinglet
187. Ruby-crowned Kinglet
188. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
189. Eastern Bluebird
190. Western Bluebird (new yard bird!)
191. Townsend's Solitaire
192. Hermit Thrush
193. American Robin
194. Northern Mockingbird
195. European Starling
196. American Pipit
197. Cedar Waxwing
198. Orange-crowned Warbler
199. Black-throated Blue Warbler
200. Yellow-rumped Warbler
201. Black-throated Green Warbler
202. Townsend's Warbler
203. Black and White Warbler
204. Common Yellowthroat 
205. Painted Redstart
206. Spotted Towhee
207. California Towhee
208. Chipping Sparrow
209. Lark Sparrow 
210. Bell's Sparrow
211. Savannah Sparrow
212. Fox Sparrow
213. Song Sparrow
214. Lincoln's Sparrow
215. White-crowned Sparrow
216. Golden-crowned Sparrow
217. Dark-eyed Junco
218. Northern Cardinal
219. Western Meadowlark
220. Red-winged Blackbird
221. Tri-color Blackbird
222. Brewer's Blackbird 
223. Common Grackle
224. Boat-tailed Grackle
225. Hooded Oriole
226. Bullock's Oriole
227. House Finch
228. Purple Finch 
229. Cassin's Finch
230. Lesser Goldfinch
231. American Goldfinch
232. House Sparrow

Blue-footed Booby - 10/29/13
Marin County, Gull Island off HWY 1

Greater Shearwater - 9/7/13
Ocean off Half Moon Bay, CA

Dusky-capped Flycatcher - 2/23/13
Bell Gardens, CA

Gray Hawk - 2/22/13
Carpenteria, CA

 

Black-throated Blue Warbler   1/11/13
Pescadero Creek Road, San Mateo Co, CA