The month before the count, you can help us by scouting your neighborhood or anywhere else within the count circle for any of the interesting or unusual birds on this list:

  • Cattle Egret
  • Blue-winged Teal
  • Eurasian Wigeon
  • Greater Scaup
  • Mountain Quail
  • Common Gallinule
  • Virginia Rail
  • Wilson’s Snipe
  • Greater Roadrunner
  • any owls (other than Barn, Great Horned, and Western-Screech)
  • White-throated Swift
  • any Hummingbirds (other than Anna’s or Allen’s)
  • Sapsuckers (other than Red-breasted)
  • Horned Lark
  • any swallows
  • Rock or Pacific Wrens
  • Common Raven
  • Phainopepla
  • Nashville Warbler
  • Black-throated Gray Warbler
  • Yellow Warbler
  • Hermit Warbler
  • Wilson’s Warbler
  • any tanagers
  • any grosbeaks
  • White-throated Sparrow
  • Tri-colored Blackbird
  • any orioles
  • Lawrence’s Goldfinch

PLUS: any montane species such as

  • Mountain Chickadee
  • Golden-crowned Kinglet
  • Brown Creeper
  • Townsend’s Solitaire
  • Varied Thrush
  • Cassin’s Finch

Also, we’re interested in the more common species whose numbers may be lower than in previous years:

  • Sparrows (especially young ones)
  • Waterfowl (ducks)

If you see any of the above or know of any other interesting birds and you are not posting them to sbcobirding, please let Libby Patten know at: email hidden; JavaScript is required.