Birds I Saw on my Thanksgiving Trip

• numerous gulls
• numerous cormorants
• Snowy Egret – 4
• Common Egret – many
• Great Blue Heron -2
• numerous Canada Geese
• numerous coots
• numerous hawks
• at least 2 Red-tailed Hawks
• Bald Eagle – 1
• American Kestrel – 12
• American Robin
• California Quail – 15
• numerous pigeons
• Mourning Dove – 2
• Western Scrub Jay – 2
• Black-billed Magpie – 4
• numerous black birds
• numerous crows
• Common Raven – 4
• Mountain Chickadee – numerous
• House Finch – numerous
• Dark-eyed Junco – numerous
• White-crowned Sparrow – several
• HOSP
• Lesser Goldfinch – numerous
• American Goldfinch – numerous
• Pine Siskin – numerous
• Cassin’s Finch – numerous
• Pine Grosbeak – 2 (maybe)
• White-tailed Kite – 1

Sweet little House Finch lady at my parent’s feeder in Carson City

Pine Grosbeak? (Evidently not. Just a strangely colored House Finch.)

 

Canada Geese are heading south — we saw them all over the place.

 

California Quail making themselves at home in Nevada!

 

Lesser Goldfinches abounded. These were seen in Markleeville, CA.