Birding in Chico

On Thursday April 4th the weather was beautiful for our trip to the Black Butte Lake area. We saw a wide variety of birds including two Osprey chicks in a nest just as we started on Rd. 206. On the trip back there was an adult in the nest shielding the chicks from the sun. We also saw some Lewis’s Woodpeckers, a Turkey, and a couple of Bullock’s Oriole’s.
Here is a complete list:

Clark’s Grebe
American White Pelican
Turkey Vulture
Mallard
Common Merganser
Osprey
Bald Eagle
Northern Harrier
Red-shouldered Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
Wild Turkey
Killdeer
California Quail
Rock Dove
Mourning Dove
Lewis’s Woodpecker
Acorn Woodpecker
Black Phoebe
Western Kingbird
Western Scrub Jay
Yellow-Billed Magpie
American Crow
Tree Swallow
Cliff Swallow
White-breasted Nuthatch
Western Bluebird
American Robin
European Starling
Spotted Towhee
Savannah Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow
Red-winged Blackbird
Western Meadowlark
Brewer’s Blackbird
Bullock’s Oriole
House Finch

Carl

Birds Sighted at Black Butte
March 1, 2007

Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Turkey Vulture
Northern Harrier
Cooper’s Hawk
Red-shouldered Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
American Kestrel
Ring-necked Pheasant
Killdeer
Rock Dove
Mourning Dove
Acorn Woodpecker
Nuttall’s Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Black Phoebe
Western Kingbird
Loggerhead Shrike
Western Scrub Jay
Yellow-Billed Magpie
American Crow
Tree Swallow
Oak Titmouse
Bushtit
White-breasted Nuthatch
Wren
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Western Bluebird
Mountain Bluebird
American Robin
Northern Mockingbird
European Starling
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Savannah Sparrow
Fox Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow
Oregon Junco
Red-winged Blackbird
Western Meadowlark
Brewer’s Blackbird
House Finch
Lesser Goldfinch

Plus we found a Great Blue Heron rookery and saw a bobcat. Some day!

Carl

Birds sighted at Black Butte
Western Grebe, American White Pelican, Turkey Vulture, Mallard, Northern Harrier, Red-tailed Hawk, American Kestrel, California Quail. American Coot, A variety of Gulls, Mourning Dove, Lewis’s Woodpecker, Acorn Woodpecker, Northern Flicker, Black Phoebe, Say’s Phoebe, Loggerhead Shrike, Western Scrub Jay, American Crow, Tree Swallow, Oak Titmouse, Western Bluebird, American Robin, European Starling, Phainopepla, Yellow-rumped Warbler, Savannah Sparrow, Oregon Junco, Red-winged Blackbird, Western Meadowlark, Brewer’s Blackbird