Thursday, December 23, 2010

Birds! Birds! Birds!

I saw more birds today than I have since we've been back at the ranch! (No photos. Maybe tomorrow.) Some familiar faces:
Chipping Sparrow (Spizella passerina)
Field Sparrow (Spizella pusilla)
Carolina Chickadee (Poecile carolinensis)
Northern Cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis)
Black-crested Titmouse (Baeolophus atricristatus)
Canyon Towhee (Pipilo fuscus)

But, I was also happy to see some new faces in the crowd:
Bewick's Wren (Thryomanes bewicki)
Spotted Towhee (Pipilo maculatus)
Pyrrhuloxia (Cardinalis sinuatus)

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