Checklist S110633982

Observations

1. Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon)

   Number observed:  5

   Exotic: Naturalized

2. Mourning Dove

   Number observed:  1

3. Black-chinned Hummingbird

   Number observed:  2

   Age & Sex:

   Age	Juvenile	Immature	Adult	Age Unknown
   Male			1
   Female			1
   Sex Unknown

4. Broad-tailed Hummingbird

   Number observed:  4

   Age & Sex:

   Age	Juvenile	Immature	Adult	Age Unknown
   Male			2
   Female			2
   Sex Unknown

5. gull sp.

   Number observed:  15

   Details

   Flying overhead in the distance toward the lowering western sun breaking thru the cloud cover. Probable Ring-billed or Calif.

6. Cooper's Hawk

   Number observed:  1

   Details

   Large (female) sharpie, or else small (male) Cooper's--brown back; very slight bit of lighter-colored tip to tail feathers (not visible in photos at all)... Head seems small for Cooper's? but does appear like it "has a beret" on top. Caught (?) a rock pigeon (which was larger than the raptor) in back yard but couldn't get airborne enough to get it over our fence, so consumed much of it in yard, then flew off with remaining carcass. The pigeon may well have flown into a window when startled (along with all the other feeder birds) by the accipiter's sudden arrival--and the latter may then have pounced on it as it hit the ground stunned or dead.
   
   I had walked out onto our pack porch with my lunch and sat down to eat when I saw the raptor perched, unmoving, on top of the pigeon on the edge of the lawn some 15' away. It had not begun plucking or tearing at it yet, and was nervous about my appearance. But I could see the raptor was both shorter and smaller, & less bulky than the pigeon. I've had Cooper's Hawks take pigeons in the yard before, and they were never as small (relative to the pigeon) as this one. Yet it did manage to "fly" with it maybe a foot off the ground (partially dragging it) over to the side of our back yard, out of my sight. I then went in & got my camera & found a couple windows I could see it from...
   
   I've had some tell me it's a Cooper's, others a Sharpie. It has features of both, but in looking at a number of photos in Birds of the World and Macaulay Library it does have the overall "jizz" of a Cooper's.

   Age & Sex:

   Age	Juvenile	Immature	Adult	Age Unknown
   Male			1
   Female
   Sex Unknown

   Media

7. Northern Flicker

   Number observed:  1

8. Woodhouse's Scrub-Jay

   Number observed:  1

9. Black-billed Magpie

   Number observed:  3

10. American Crow

    Number observed:  1

11. Mountain Chickadee

    Number observed:  1

12. White-breasted Nuthatch

    Number observed:  1

13. American Robin

    Number observed:  1

    Age & Sex:

    Age	Juvenile	Immature	Adult	Age Unknown
    Male			1
    Female
    Sex Unknown

14. House Finch

    Number observed:  4

    Age & Sex:

    Age	Juvenile	Immature	Adult	Age Unknown
    Male			3
    Female			1
    Sex Unknown

15. Pine Siskin

    Number observed:  1

16. Lesser Goldfinch

    Number observed:  8

    Details

    Immature green-backed male; 1 adult green-backed male, 1 intermediate male

    Age & Sex:

    Age	Juvenile	Immature	Adult	Age Unknown
    Male		1	2
    Female			5
    Sex Unknown

17. Chipping Sparrow

    Number observed:  1

18. Spotted Towhee

    Number observed:  2

    Breeding & Behavior Code:

    T Territorial Defense (Probable)

    Age & Sex:

    Age	Juvenile	Immature	Adult	Age Unknown
    Male			2
    Female
    Sex Unknown

19. Brown-headed Cowbird

    Number observed:  2

    Age & Sex:

    Age	Juvenile	Immature	Adult	Age Unknown
    Male			1
    Female			1
    Sex Unknown