3 February 10

White-tailed Kite

White-tailed Kite, pen and ink Lots of calling, hovering, fluttering these days with a pair of white-tailed kites in the pine by the office…

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2 February 10

White-breasted Nuthatch

White-breasted Nuthatch: watersoluble graphite

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1 February 10

Barn Owl

Barn owl, watercolor We biked out to the Yolo Grasslands Park on Saturday to look for a long-eared owl that’s been reported out there. We didn’t find it, but this barn owl was sleeping in the eucalyptus the long-eared had been using. Since I mostly see barn owls around Davis in nest boxes (or flying low over the field looking for rodents), seeing one perching in a tree was a treat.

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28 January 10

Great Blue Heron

Great blue heron, Prismacolor I got back last night from my dentist appointment and saw a great blue heron land in the field, stalk around, and then stab something with its pointy beak. Gobble.

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26 January 10

Northern Flicker

Northern Flicker, Pen and Ink The wind has veered, and we’re going to be getting a few days at least with no rain. The barometer is rising. The birds come in clusters. This flicker is back to examining the phone pole…

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24 January 10

Sharp-shinned Hawk

Sharp-shinned Hawk, pen and ink Rain crept in during our campus bird count today, and this female sharpie was sheltering from it in a conifer.

Bird list from South Campus, East of Old Davis Road::
Greater White-fronted Goose
Mallard
Bufflehead (1, in the wastewater treatment pond)
Double-crested Cormorant
Sharp-shinned Hawk
Red-shouldered Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
Killdeer
California Gull
Herring Gull
Ring-billed Gull
Rock Pigeon
Great-horned Owl
Anna’s Hummingbird
Belted Kingfisher
Nuttall’s Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Black Phoebe
Say’s Phoebe
Yellow-billed Magpie
American Crow
Western Scrub-jay
Bushtit
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Western Bluebird
Hermit Thrush
Amercan Robin
Northern Mockingbird
European Starling
American Pipit
Cedar Waxwing
Yellow-rumped Warbler
White-crowned Sparrow
Golden-crowned Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
Red-winged Blackbird
Brewer’s Blackbirfd
Purple Finch
House Finch
Lesser Goldfinch
House Sparrow

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22 January 10

Snowy Egret in the Mud

Snowy Egret, pen and ink

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20 January 10

Great Egrets, Rodenting

great egrets outside kitchen window More rain, rain, rain and wind. Five great egrets were stalking the flooded field just beyond the kitchen window, eating things. It’s a bad day to be a pocket gopher….

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18 January 10

Robins on a Wet Day

Robins on a wet day: Derwent Coloursoft on Canson mi-teintes

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13 January 10

Woodpeckers

About an hour apart, a flicker and a Nuttall’s…
nuttall's woodpecker and northern flicker, pen and ink

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