My name is Pica. I live in Davis, California and I have another blog, Feathers of Hope, which I keep with my partner Numenius, and which isn't primarily about sketching birds. My ABA list stands at 697 700, which seems a fine time to start sketching birds instead of spending a fortune on a camera and lenses to start photographing them all... The first post from August 2007, detailing all this, can be found here. I am currently participating for the third year in the Big Green Big Year; a list of birds seen on foot from our house in 2010 can be found below. (We did 2008 by bike; I ended up with 173 species. 2009 on foot only yielded 86, will try to do better this year. We have already seen a moorhen by mid-January which was a bird we missed last year.)
Contact me: pica at magpienest dot org
Greater White-fronted Goose
Canada Goose
Wood Duck
Mallard
Bufflehead
Common Merganser
Pied-billed Grebe
Great Egret
Great Blue Heron
Green Heron
Turkey Vulture
White-tailed Kite
Northern Harrier
Sharp-shinned Hawk
Red-shouldered Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
Common Moorhen
Sandhill Crane
Killdeer
California Gull
Rock Pigeon
Mourning Dove
Great-horned Owl
Barn Owl
Anna's Hummingbird
Belted Kingfisher
Nuttall's Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Black Phoebe
Say's Phoebe
Western Scrub-jay
Yellow-billed Magpie
American Crow
Bushtit
White-breasted Nuthatch
House Wren
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Western Bluebird
Hermit Thrush
American Robin
Northern Mockingbird
European Starling
American Pipit
Cedar Waxwing
Orange-crowned Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Audubon's)
Spotted Towhee
California Towhee
Savannah Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow
Golden-crowned Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
Western Meadowlark
Red-winged Blackbird
Brewer's Blackbird
House Finch
Lesser Goldfinch
American Goldfinch
House Sparrow
There’s at least one chick in the tree swallow box. It looks close to fledging. I’m pretty stoked.
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I love this picture – so characterful staring out at you with its beady eyes!