Short walk this morning, but two more for the sloooowly starting year list. Weird that either crows or robins or both will land outside of the first ten. They're everywhere, just not when I'm looking.

8) Lesser Goldfinch
9) California Scrub-Jay

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Another neighborhood walk, and this time I picked up three rare and elusive Northwest species. And me without my camera! Seriously though, all birds are good. Even starlings. Maybe especially starlings. I'll fight you over starlings.

10) Dark-eyed Junco
11) European Starling
12) American Crow

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Two short walks at two very different locations added a few species to this year's list. The highlight was seeing Song and Fox Sparrows nearly side by side - a rare opportunity and so helpful for similar species.

13) Fox Sparrow
14) American Robin
15) Steller's Jay
16) Great Egret
17) Double-crested Cormorant
18) American Coot
19) Pied-billed Grebe
20) Common Merganser

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I had a chance this week to revisit one of my old haunts from before my last move: Tualatin River National Wildlife Refuge. What a place for geese, ducks, and songbirds, and very helpful for the year list.

21) Townsend's Warbler
22) Cackling Goose
23) Northern Pintail
24) Green-winged Teal
25) Ring-necked Duck
26) Bufflehead
27) Ruddy Duck
28) Great Blue Heron
29) Red-tailed Hawk
30) Ruby-crowned Kinglet
31) Red-breasted Nuthatch

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Between farm upkeep and (a little) running, I've been putting a lot less of my outside time into birding this year than usual, but I have managed to slowly grow this year's list, mostly by accident. Sometime in the next few weeks I'll make an effort to get out with the binocs more intentionally. In every possible way today, go birds.

32) Anna's Hummingbird
33) Common Raven
34) Eurasian Collared-Dove
35) White-crowned Sparrow

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