The other night I decided to try and come up with all of the different birds I have seen or heard so far this year that I could identify with relative certainty. I was able to come up with 26 different birds. I know that I have seen (and probably heard) more, but I am not able to identify all of the birds that I see. For example, I have not learned how to distinguish the various gulls, so they are not included. I did include the hairy woodpecker, although some or all of those sightings may have actually been a downy woodpecker.
- Golden-Crowned Kinglet
- Ruby-Crowned Kinglet
- Common Raven
- Northwestern Crow
- Varied Thrush
- European Starling
- American Robin
- Dark-eyed Junco
- Chestnut-backed Chickadee
- Bald Eagle
- Song Sparrow
- American Dipper
- Pine Siskin
- Red-breasted Sapsucker
- Hairy Woodpecker
- Pelagic Cormorant
- Common Merganser
- Surf Scoter
- Mallard Duck
- Bufflehead Duck
- Belted Kingfisher
- Rufous Hummingbird
- Steller’s Jay
- Great Blue Heron
- Winter Wren
- Trumpeter Swan