Fink Family Farm Bird List

Fink Family Farm Bird List

The only list I faithfully keep is a list of all the birds seen on our farm since we moved here in 1977. I thought it would be fun to add p...

Thursday, October 30, 2014

Fink Family Farm Bird List


The only list I faithfully keep is a list of all the birds seen on our farm since we moved here in 1977. I thought it would be fun to add photos to the list, but of course I don't have photos of all the birds seen here since some were one time wonders and I have not always had a camera on hand when they came through. And even if I did get a picture, it is likely buried somewhere in my computer, or in an album.. or a drawer... if taken during pre-computer days.

But little by little I have gone through my photos and added them to the birds... if I can tell they were taken here. Fortunately, since I don't keep any photo records, I do write in my journal daily saying where we were that day. That has helped a great deal.

I have better photos taken elsewhere of some birds, like the Red-shouldered Hawk. And I have many photos elsewhere of White-tailed Kites, which have not visited our farm for many years now. But maybe they'll come back someday... Photos of some birds I'm sure I photographed I have not been able to locate. I have lots more pictures to take, but this is a start. I will be trying hard to get photos of warblers and flycatchers each spring.

I list the birds as they appear in my pocket check list from long ago (circa 1977). Many names have changed since then, species have split or been combined, but I try to use today's nomenclature. Wilson's Snipe, I have recently learned, is back to being Wilson's Snipe after a sojourn as Common Snipe (including on my 1977 checklist). House Sparrow is now at the end of checklists but I have left it where it was in 1977. I added Eurasian Collared-Dove, which was not even heard of in 1977, but is common now. My how times change.

As for format, I've added the years seen if I happened to write that down, unless I see them regularly in which case I write "often".  (Often as of  when I started this list. Some, like Barn Owls and Band-tailed Pigeons, are no longer seen often, for reasons not always known. And as of 2023 House Sparrows seem to have disappeared entirely.) If seen occasionally, I write the year that I first saw it. If anyone visited my farm and captured photos of birds here that I did not, I would be grateful if I could use those photos, with credit to the photographer, of course.

I hope and trust someone will let me know if I have misidentified any birds. My photos are not labeled on the computer, in albums, or in drawers. And birds in photos don't sing, which is how I identify many of them. But here they are, as of December, 2020, 153 species.

Many thanks to Dawn Villaescusa and Owen Schmidt for the photos taken here that they have shared with me.

THE BIRDS OF FINK FAMILY FARM


                                                       
Common Loon 1983

                                                



















Pied-billed Grebe 1991, 2001

Double-crested Cormorant 1997

Brandt's Cormorant 1990



Great Blue Heron "often"





































 



Great Egret 2014




Green Heron adult

















 

Green Heron juvenile

 

 

 

 

 

 

American Bittern 1991



Canada Goose















Cackling Goose (formerly a subspecies of Canada Goose)



Greater White-fronted Goose






















Mallard









Northern Pintail 1990








Green-winged Teal







Blue-winged Teal  1988, 1990

Cinnamon Teal 2001

European Widgeon (now Eurasian Wigeon) 1990

Northern Shoveler 2003, 2008



Wood Duck




Wood Duck








 

Ring-necked Duck 1989, 1990

Lesser Scaup 2000

Bufflehead 1990 first

Ruddy Duck 1996

Hooded Merganser "often"

Hooded Merganser





















juvenile Hooded Mergansers











Common Merganser 1988 first





























Turkey Vultures


 

White-tailed Kite  1987 first, then "often from 1998 to about 2004"


Sharp-shinned Hawk

Sharp-shinned Hawk





























Cooper's Hawk

Cooper's Hawk







































Red-tailed Hawk "often"




























Red-shouldered Hawk 2011 first

adult 2017













sub-adult 2017















Golden Eagle 2002

Bald Eagle 1985 first














Northern Harrier

Photo by Dawn Villaescusa












Osprey 2007 first

Peregrine Falcon 2008 first

Merlin 2004 first

 

 


 

 

 

 




American Kestrel "often"




































Ruffed Grouse





















California Quail "often"
















































Ring-necked Pheasant

Wild Turkey









These turkeys are apparently  wild birds with some color abnormality or domestic ancestry, or, less likely, domestic birds gone wild.







Killdeer "often"


















 






Wilson's Snipe















Spotted Sandpiper







Solitary Sandpiper 2008

Greater Yellowlegs



Wilson's Phalarope 1989

Red-necked (Northern) Phalarope 1987

Glaucous-winged Gull 2008

Band-tailed Pigeon "often"













Mourning Dove "often"













Eurasian Collared-Dove




































Barn Owl "often"

























































Screech Owl

Great Horned Owl

Pygmy Owl 2014














Barred Owl 2010

Saw-whet Owl


























Common Nighthawk

Vaux's Swift 1999 first, now often

Anna's Hummingbird 2015 first, now often (winter)

























 Rufous Hummingbird "often" (summer)












female rufous


id needed!
















































Belted Kingfisher "often"























Northern Flicker "often"






























Pileated Woodpecker


















Acorn Woodpecker 2014















Red-breasted Sapsucker "often"







































Red-naped Sapsucker 2002

Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 2019, farm bird #152

Immature, Feb. 2019











Came back in November 2019 as adult male... tough to get a diagnostic photo of him!






Hairy Woodpecker














Hairy or Downy?














Downy Woodpecker "often"
































Western Kingbird 2004

Black Phoebe 2020

 

Say's Phoebe 2005

Willow Flycatcher first 1999




 

 

 

 

 

Hammond's Flycatcher 2012














Pacific Slope Flycatcher "often"

Western Wood Pewee "often"




























Olive-sided Flycatcher

























Horned Lark

Violet-green Swallow "often"



















































Tree Swallow "often"







































Rough-winged Swallow

Barn Swallow "often"


















Cliff Swallow















Purple Martin 2010

Gray Jay










Steller's jay "often"























Scrub Jay "often"


















Common Raven "often"

























Common Crow "often"












Black-capped Chickadee "often"






































Chestnut-backed Chickadee "often"













Common Bushtit















Red-breasted Nuthatch "often"


















Brown Creeper

























Wrentit 1999 first




 

 

 

 

 

 

Dipper

















House Wren 2010























Pacific (formerly Winter) Wren "often"

























Bewick's Wren "often"




Robin "often"






















Varied Thrush "often"
















































Hermit Thrush














Swainson's Thrush "often"















Western Bluebird







































Golden-crowned Kinglet














Ruby-crowned Kinglet


















 

American Pipit 2004

Cedar Waxwing "often"






































juvenile Cedar Waxwing























Northern Shrike 1988

Starling "often"

























Hutton's Vireo

Cassin's Vireo

Warbling Vireo "often"

photo above by Dawn Villaescusa











 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Orange-crowned Warbler "often"

























Yellow Warbler

Yellow-rumped Warbler


 







Black-throated Gray Warbler

Townsend's Warbler

Hermit Warbler

MacGillivray's Warbler

Common Yellowthroat















Yellow-breasted Chat 2004

Wilson's Warbler "often"


























begging fledgling










House Sparrow "often"



















Western Meadowlark 2003 first













Red-winged Blackbird




























Bullock's Oriole 2005



Brewer's Blackbird

























Brown-headed Cowbird

female













male














pair

juvenile













We call them Horse Birds, instead of Cow Birds















Western Tanager














I














Black-headed Grosbeak































Lazuli Bunting 2009

Evening Grosbeak "often"






























Purple Finch "often"





























House Finch









 Pine Siskin







American Goldfinch "often"
































Lesser Goldfinch

photo by Dawn Villaescusa














































Red Crossbill 2003 first


























 














Spotted Towhee "often"
































Savannah Sparrow















 

 

 

 

 

Sage Sparrow 2004 (now called Sagebrush Sparrow)

video capture from Owen Schmidt... Many thanks, Owen!!














another video capture from Owen Schmidt of the Sage Sparrow











Dark-eyed Junco


                      Oregon Junco "often"

                     





                         Slate-colored Junco  2000







Chipping Sparrow























 

 

 

 

 

White-crowned Sparrow "often"

























Golden-crowned Sparrow "often"










White-throated Sparrow 2005 first






































Fox Sparrow "often"




































Lincoln's Sparrow


































 


Song Sparrow "often"














2 comments:

  1. Great idea, love the pictorial history. The wild turkey photo is so cool! Love the owlets too, and many others.

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  2. What a great record and amazing yard list. (Although "yard" list seems to be under-selling it by a....country mile.) Sagebrush Sparrow...that is the literal definition of an odd bird for that neck of the woods. eBird shows no records for this species in Yamhill. Do you have yourself a county first there?

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