{"id":3761,"date":"2012-02-21T07:01:28","date_gmt":"2012-02-21T15:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thebirdersreport.com\/?p=3761"},"modified":"2012-02-21T07:01:28","modified_gmt":"2012-02-21T15:01:28","slug":"the-great-backyard-bird-count-was-lots-of-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebirdersreport.com\/world-bird-wednesday-2\/the-great-backyard-bird-count-was-lots-of-fun","title":{"rendered":"The Great Backyard Bird Count Was Lots of Fun!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Anna’s Hummingbird<\/strong> (Calypte anna<\/em>) photos by Larry Jordan<\/p>\n

I missed the first day of the Great Backyard Bird Count (GBBC) because I had to work on Friday \ud83d\ude41 But I had Monday off for President’s Day \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n

Guess where my Great Backyard Bird Count took place? That’s right, in my backyard. I had a total of 21 species including two female Anna’s Hummingbirds<\/strong> collecting nesting material (click on photos for full sized images) and one male perched at the top of an oak tree looking out over his domain.<\/p>\n

There were Western Scrub-Jays<\/strong> a plenty, I counted seven at one time.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Western Scrub-Jay<\/strong> (Aphelocoma californica<\/em>)<\/p>\n

Acorn Woodpeckers<\/strong> abound in my area though my high count in my yard this weekend was only four.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Acorn Woodpecker Male<\/strong> (Melanerpes formicivourus<\/em>)<\/p>\n

The second highest count was for Lesser Goldfinches<\/strong> at 26.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Lesser Goldfinch Male<\/strong> (Carduelis psaltria<\/em>)<\/p>\n

I had probably more Purple Finches<\/strong> in my yard this weekend than ever before. I took this shot of the female, that doesn’t get as much glory as the more brightly colored male of the species, as she came out into the open.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Purple Finch Female<\/strong> (Carpodacus purpureus<\/em>)<\/p>\n

This Nuttall’s Woodpecker<\/strong> was being very cagey and I never got a good photo of him but I was just glad to have him on my count!<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Nuttall’s Woodpecker<\/strong> (Picoides nuttallii<\/em>)<\/p>\n

Of course this time of year, the Dark-eyed Juncos<\/strong>, also known as snow birds to some, travel in large flocks. I had only 36 as a high in my back yard when I did my count. There were a lot more out of my sight!<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Dark-eyed Junco Male<\/strong> (Junco hyemalis)<\/em><\/p>\n

<\/em>Here’s my list for the three days I was able to count:<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Turkey Vulture<\/li>\n
  2. Red-shouldered Hawk<\/li>\n
  3. Eurasian Collared-Dove<\/li>\n
  4. Mourning Dove<\/li>\n
  5. Anna’s Hummingbird<\/li>\n
  6. Acorn Woodpecker<\/li>\n
  7. Nuttall’s Woodpecker<\/li>\n
  8. Northern Flicker<\/li>\n
  9. Western Scrub-Jay<\/li>\n
  10. Oak Titmouse<\/li>\n
  11. White-breasted Nuthatch<\/li>\n
  12. Ruby-crowned Kinglet<\/li>\n
  13. American Robin<\/li>\n
  14. Hermit Thrush<\/li>\n
  15. Yellow-rumped Warbler<\/li>\n
  16. Spotted Towhee<\/li>\n
  17. Dark-eyed Junco<\/li>\n
  18. Purple Finch<\/li>\n
  19. House Finch<\/li>\n
  20. Pine Siskin<\/li>\n
  21. Lesser Goldfinch<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Good birding! I hope you all had a wonderful weekend. If you want to see more birds form around the world, check out World Bird Wednesday<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Anna’s Hummingbird (Calypte anna) photos by Larry Jordan I missed the first day of the Great Backyard Bird Count (GBBC) because I had to work on Friday \ud83d\ude41 But I had Monday off for President’s Day \ud83d\ude00 Guess where my Great Backyard Bird Count took place? That’s right, in my backyard. I had a total […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[994],"tags":[279,637,577,1128,1052,516,1016,983],"class_list":{"0":"post-3761","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-world-bird-wednesday-2","7":"tag-acorn-woodpeckers","8":"tag-annas-hummingbird","9":"tag-dark-eyed-junco","10":"tag-great-backyard-bird-count-2012","11":"tag-lesser-goldfinches","12":"tag-nuttalls-woodpecker","13":"tag-purple-finch","14":"tag-western-scrub-jay"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebirdersreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3761"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebirdersreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebirdersreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebirdersreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebirdersreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3761"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thebirdersreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3765,"href":"https:\/\/thebirdersreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3761\/revisions\/3765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebirdersreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebirdersreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebirdersreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}