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Red-shouldered Hawk (Buteo lineatus) |
A little bit of a different post today, because I couldn't settle for just one bird. I was walking the perimeter of the west campus this afternoon, and saw a palette of different bird colors. As I was going over the pictures, I realized they all had color as part of their names as well, so the bird of the day is a five-way tie. A colorful tie.
The first is a Red-shouldered Hawk (
Buteo lineatus) that I've seen a couple of times in the last few days. It was perched on a telephone pole at the northeast edge of the campus.
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White-crowned Sparrow (Zonotrichia leucophrys) |
The White-crowned Sparrow (
Zonotrichia leucophrys) is a common visitor on the west campus, enough so I don't try as hard to get the "perfect" shot. But sometimes they just sit there waiting for me to take one.
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Western Bluebird (Sialia mexicana) |
If it is red and white, then blue must be next. There have been dozens of Western Bluebirds (
Sialia mexicana) on campus these last few days. They have been mostly around the cattle pastures, looking for bugs in the grass.
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So...Purple or House Finch? |
Here's where I show my general cluelessness with the most common of bird species. Is the bird above a House Finch, or a Purple Finch? I have House Finches at the feeders in my backyard all the time, and this one struck me as different. If it is a Purple, it is the first I've identified. If it's a house finch, then oh well, it's beautiful anyway.
Finally, there is a nice clear shot of a Yellow-rumped Warbler (
Setophaga coronata) in the cow pasture. I caught a few pictures the other day at Chaw'se in the Sierra Nevada foothills, but the ones I got on campus were pretty fuzzy. I liked this one.
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