Greetings,

While I was hoping to make a long post of this wonderful trip, too much time has passed since I first started writing the original draft, and I can not correctly remember all of the events and stops to justify writing a lengthy post. So, while I regret not having more to write at the time, I will leave with you the bird list for this trip to Mines Road and Del Puerto Canyon just outside Livermore, CA.

Cheers,
~Chad (05/29/2006)

*Indicates species not detected by me

1. Great Egret
2. Green Heron
3. Wood Duck
4. Mallard
5. Turkey Vulture
6. Northern Harrier
7. White-tailed Kite
8. Cooper’s Hawk
9. Red-shouldered Hawk
10. Red-tailed Hawk
11. Golden Eagle
12. American Kestrel
13. Prairie Falcon
14. Wild Turkey
15. California Quail
16. American Coot
17. Killdeer
18. Rock Pigeon
19. Band-tailed Pigeon*
20. Mourning Dove
21. Barn Owl
22. Western Screech-Owl*
23. Belted Kingfisher
24. White-throated Swift
25. Anna’s Hummingbird
26. Allen’s Hummingbird*
27. Northern Flicker (Red-shafted)
28. Acorn Woodpecker
29. Lewis’s Woodpecker
30. Downy Woodpecker
31. Nuttall’s Woodpecker
32. Western Wood-Pewee
33. Black Phoebe
34. Say’s Phoebe
35. Ash-throated Flycatcher
36. Western Kingbird
37. Loggerhead Shrike
38. Warbling Vireo
39. Steller’s Jay
40. Western Scrub-Jay
41. Yellow-billed Magpie
42. American Crow
43. Common Raven
44. Horned Lark
45. Tree Swallow
46. Violet-green Swallow
47. Northern Rough-winged Swallow
48. Barn Swallow
49. Oak Titmouse
50. Bushtit
51. White-breasted Nuthatch
52. House Wren
53. Bewick’s Wren
54. Canyon Wren
55. Rock Wren
56. Wrentit
57. Ruby-crowned Kinglet
58. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
59. Western Bluebird
60. American Robin
61. Hermit Thrush
62. Northern Mockingbird
63. California Thrasher
64. American Pipit*
65. Cedar Waxwing
66. Phainopepla
67. European Starling
68. Orange-crowned Warbler
69. Nashville Warbler
70. Yellow-rumped Warbler (Audubon’s)
71. Common Yellowthroat*
72. Wilson’s Warbler
73. Western Tanager
74. Lazuli Bunting
75. Black-headed Grosbeak
76. Spotted Towhee
77. California Towhee
78. Rufous-crowned Sparrow
79. Lark Sparrow
80. Savannah Sparrow*
81. Song Sparrow
82. White-crowned Sparrow*
83. Golden-crowned Sparrow*
84. Bullock’s Oriole
85. Western Meadowlark
86. Red-winged Blackbird
87. Tricolored Blackbird
88. Brewer’s Blackbird
89. Brown-headed Cowbird
90. House Finch
91. Lesser Goldfinch
92. Lawrence’s Goldfinch
93. American Goldfinch
94. House Sparrow
95. Cliff Swallow* (added after list was finalized by another observer)
96. Sharp-shinned Hawk*