Visitors for SEPTEMBER 2005
Brewer's Sparrow
September 6
Brown Thrasher
September 6
September 7th set a new record for the yard with 30 species during the day: 6 Northern Mockingbirds and 2 Brown Thrashers were at the waterhole at the same time; a third Brown Thrasher was around the yard;
others of interest: 6-12 Wilson's Warblers; 2 Wood Pewees; 2 empid flycatchers (maybe a Willow and Hammond's); a Townsend's Warbler; Meadowlarks; Lark Buntings; a Western Kingbird; Scaled Quail; a Rose-breasted Grosbeak female; Sparrows...Chipping, Brewer's, Clay-colored, Lark; Mourning Doves; a Yellow Warbler; a Yellow-rumped Warbler; a Say's Phoebe; Barn Swallows, and Brown-headed Cowbirds... Should Pigeons, European Starlings, Grackles, Great-tailed Grackles, a zillion House Sparrows and a couple of unidentified visitors count?
September 8th: several of the same species as the day before, plus a flock of about 30 Yellow-headed Blackbirds, a Red-winged Blackbird, a Vesper Sparrow, an American Kestrel, a Horned Lark, a House Wren, and a Vesper Sparrow.
Black-headed Grosbeak
first year male on September 9
Townsend's Warbler
September 12
Audubon's Yellow-rumped Warbler
September 12
American Redstart female
September 12
September 12th tied the yard record with 30 species again present during the day.
Of note were the 3 species above plus a Red-breasted Nuthatch, Lark Sparrows, Lark Buntings, Meadowlarks, all three Spizella Sparrows, Wilson's Warblers, a Barn Owl, Mourning Doves, 3 families of Scaled Quail (26 total), Northern Mockingbirds, Western Kingbird, Barn Swallows, Audubon's Yellow-rumped Warblers, Horned Lark, Western Wood-Pewee, Say's Phoebe, Vesper Sparrow, empid (Willow Flycatcher?), Northern Flicker, and 5 American Kestrels.
White-crowned Sparrow - immature
September 13
first this fall
Savannah Sparrow - immature
September 13
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
September 17
Ovenbird
September 17
Also on September 17th Wilson's Warblers were everywhere, 2 Hermit Thrushes, all 3 Spizella Sparrows, a Ruby-Crowned Kinglet, Mourning Doves, Eurasian Collared-dove, a possible Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, a Common Yellowthroat female, a Savannah Sparrow, Vesper Sparrows, Barn Swallows, Western Kingbird, Western Wood-Pewee, Meadowlarks, and a dozen Scaled Quail.
Vesper Sparrow
September 18
American Pipit
September 20
Warbling Vireo
September 20
Orange-crowned Warbler
September 28
Blue Grosbeak?
first winter plumage?
September 29
