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I’ve decided to do a big year this year. More specifically I’ve decided to do a Big Green Big Year, in which one attempts to see as many birds as one can without the use of motorized conveyances. You can use a bicycle if you like, but I figure I have a better shot in the walking category, especially since my bicycle is still in pieces in my garage. I’m located more or less between a major regional park, an Audubon wildlife refuge, and a large university with a lot of green space. If I wanted to make a long hike of it, I could even reach the shore once or twice.

I’m starting a month late, since I didn’t move out here till February but I’m still doing pretty well. Limiting myself just to what I’ve seen and heard on foot from this location so far I have 63 species:

1. Royal Tern
2. Swan Goose
3. Canada Goose
4. American Wigeon
5. Mallard
6. Ruddy Duck
7. Horned Grebe
8. Eared Grebe
9. Great Egret
10. Snowy Egret
11. White-faced Ibis
12. American Coot
13. Whimbrel
14. Long-billed Curlew
15. Ring-billed Gull
16. Mourning Dove
17. Rufous Hummingbird
18. Black Phoebe
19. American Crow
20. Ruby-crowned Kinglet
21. Western Bluebird
22. European Starling
23. Chipping Sparrow
24. Song Sparrow
25. Lesser Goldfinch
26. Gadwall
27. Northern Shoveler
28. Pied-billed Grebe
29. Great Blue Heron
30. Turkey Vulture
31. Anna’s Hummingbird
32. Yellow-rumped Warbler
33. Cackling Goose
34. Egyptian Goose
35. Double-crested Cormorant
36. Osprey
37. Red-shouldered Hawk
38. Red-tailed Hawk
39. Greater Roadrunner
40. Nuttall’s Woodpecker
41. Northern Flicker
42. Hutton’s Vireo
43. Common Raven
44. Bushtit
45. Orange-crowned Warbler
46. Townsend’s Warbler
47. Common Yellowthroat
48. Spotted Towhee
49. California Towhee
50. White-crowned Sparrow
51. House Finch
52. Cinnamon Teal
53. Green-winged Teal
54. Bufflehead
55. Black-crowned Night-Heron
56. Black-necked Stilt
57. American Avocet
58. Spotted Sandpiper
59. Greater Yellowlegs
60. Tree Swallow
61. Barn Swallow
62. Marsh Wren
63. Great-tailed Grackle