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Birders

MoonchildCA

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29. I saw a Western tanager one time, about 10 years ago in my backyard when I lived in Ventura.

Reply to dem4decades (Reply #27)

Wed Mar 31, 2021, 10:44 PM

Mar 2021

It was in my early bird watching days, and I didn’t know what it was until I looked it up afterwards.
Haven’t see one since.

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What are your backyard migratory birds? [View all] MoonchildCA Mar 2021 OP

unfortunately the mockingbirds in CA never leave nt msongs Mar 2021 #1

I love the mockingbirds. MoonchildCA Mar 2021 #21

Osprey! elleng Mar 2021 #2

Juncos, Show up in late fall and usually leave right around April 1 or when the temperature is 50+ Walleye Mar 2021 #3

We have dark-eyed juncos here year-around, however they don't come to my backyard for some reason. MoonchildCA Mar 2021 #8

I've seen them in Alaska in the summer Walleye Mar 2021 #10

They have learned how to use my finch feeders, they like the thistle seeds Walleye Mar 2021 #11

I have Nyjer feeders out for the lesser goldfinches and pine siskins. MoonchildCA Mar 2021 #19

Have seen rarely pine siskins. Getting visits from song sparrows and white throated sparrow Walleye Mar 2021 #20

Kolea mahina Mar 2021 #4

Where are you located? MoonchildCA Mar 2021 #9

Oahu mahina Mar 2021 #18

I usually start hearing Warblers in my area... Buckeye_Democrat Mar 2021 #5

We have the yellow-rumped/Audubon's warbler here. MoonchildCA Mar 2021 #12

The red wing blackbirds have come back already with the grackles and cowbirds. The end of April dem4decades Mar 2021 #6

Indigo Buntings! I'm jealous. I've never seen one. MoonchildCA Mar 2021 #13

Southern New England. I forgot we had a pair of scarlet Tanagers and grosbeaks too. The dem4decades Mar 2021 #27

I saw a Western tanager one time, about 10 years ago in my backyard when I lived in Ventura. MoonchildCA Mar 2021 #29

That's too bad, you see then and want them to stay or at least return. dem4decades Mar 2021 #31

I love the sound grackles make. MoonchildCA Mar 2021 #24

We had a massive influx of pine siskins this year, complicated by the salmonella epidemic RockRaven Mar 2021 #7

We get all of those here, except the American Goldfinch. MoonchildCA Mar 2021 #15

Rufous hummingbirds RainCaster Mar 2021 #14

We have Anna's here all around, as well as Allen's. MoonchildCA Mar 2021 #16

I live northwest of Seattle RainCaster Mar 2021 #28

In the winter of 2016 I had a Rufous hummingbird come and visit me for about 3 weeks. Walleye Mar 2021 #22

I was pretty close to a three-toed woodpecker this morning. It was really chowing down on whatever brewens Mar 2021 #17

That's cool! I've never heard of the three-toed woodpeckers. MoonchildCA Mar 2021 #23

This message was self-deleted by its author Tbear Mar 2021 #25

Oh my! We've had a few birds fly into a picture window as well. MoonchildCA Mar 2021 #26

I was walking my dog one morning last week and saw something in the road, went over dem4decades Mar 2021 #32

I've only had luck once reviving a bird. MoonchildCA Mar 2021 #33

Not much of a birder - really cannot identify most species. TomSlick Mar 2021 #30