Image source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Corvus-brachyrhynchos-001.jpg
American Crow
- Date spotted: 2022-07-11
- Frequency spotted: rare
- Season(s) spotted: summer
- Image Source
Image source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Carduelis-tristis-002.jpg
American Goldfinch
- Date spotted: 2022-07-11
- Frequency spotted: rare
- Season(s) spotted: summer
- Image Source
Image source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:American_Robin_in_Canada.jpg
American Robin
- Frequency spotted: common
- Season(s) spotted: year-round
- Image Source
Image source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bald_Eagle_(Haliaeetus_leucocephalus).jpg
Bald Eagle
- Frequency spotted: common
- Season(s) spotted: year round
- Image Source
Image source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BlackCappedChickadee.jpg
Black-Capped Chickadee
- Frequency spotted: common
- Season(s) spotted: year-round
- Image Source
Image source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Archilochus-alexandri-003.jpg#file
Black-chinned hummingbird
- Frequency spotted: common in summer
- Season(s) spotted: summer
- Image Source
Image source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cyanocitta-cristata-004.jpg
Blue Jay
- Frequency spotted: common
- Season(s) spotted: year-round
- Image Source
Image source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Buteo_platypterus_Gavil%C3%A1n_aliancho_Broad-winged_Hawk_(11455801494)_(cropped).jpg
Broad-winged hawk
- Frequency spotted: rare
- Season(s) spotted: Winter
- Image Source
Image source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Canada_goose_on_Seedskadee_NWR_(27826185489).jpg
Canada goose
- Frequency spotted: common
- Season(s) spotted: year-round
- Image Source
Image source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Blackbird_-_Turdus_merula_-_Karatavuk_02.jpg
Common Blackbird
- Frequency spotted: rare
- Season(s) spotted: unknown
- Image Source
Image source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sharp_Grackle_(49749968433).jpg
Common Grackle
- Frequency spotted: occasionally
- Season(s) spotted: summer & autumn
- Image Source
Image source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rock_dove_-_natures_pics.jpg
Common Pigeon
- Frequency spotted: rare
- Season(s) spotted: year-round
- Image Source
Image source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dark-eyed_Junco,_Washington_State_06.jpg
Dark-Eyed Junco
- Frequency spotted: common
- Season(s) spotted: year-round
- Image Source
Image source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Downey_Woodpecker_(male)_a.jpg
Downy Woodpecker
- Frequency spotted: common
- Season(s) spotted: autumn, winter, spring
- Image Source
Image source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Streptopelia_decaocto_-_Eurasian_Collared_Dove_05.jpg
Eurasian Collared Dove
- Frequency spotted: common
- Season(s) spotted: year-round
- Image Source
Image source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:European_starling_at_Bodega_Head-1209.jpg
European Starling
- Frequency spotted: rare
- Season(s) spotted: Summer
- Image Source
Image source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HAWK,_FERRUGINOUS_(12-29-07)_ca_val_-02_(2147869372).jpg
Ferruginous Hawk
- Frequency spotted: occasionally
- Season(s) spotted: year-round
- Image Source
Image source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gray_Catbird_(Dumetella_carolinensis).jpg
Gray Catbird
- Date spotted: 2023-06-20
- Frequency spotted: rare
- Season(s) spotted: summer
- Image Source
Image source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Great_Horned_Owl_(30706490070).jpg
Great Horned Owl
- Frequency spotted: occasionally
- Season(s) spotted: winter & spring
- Image Source
Image source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:House_Finch,_southeastern_Arizona_06.jpg
House Finch
- Frequency spotted: common
- Season(s) spotted: year-round
- Image Source
Image source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Passer_domesticus_-_House_sparrow_03.jpg
House Sparrow
- Frequency spotted: common
- Season(s) spotted: year-round
- Image Source
Image source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mourning_dove_in_CP_(65232).jpg
Mourning Dove
- Frequency spotted: common
- Season(s) spotted: year-round
- Image Source
Image source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Northern_Flicker_(46976975415).jpg
Northern Flicker
- Frequency spotted: common
- Season(s) spotted: spring & summer
- Image Source
Image source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Northern_Shrike_(8128455040).jpg
Northern Shrike
- Date spotted: 2022-12-07
- Frequency spotted: rare
- Season(s) spotted: Winter
- Image Source
Image source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Red-winged_Blackbird_-_Flickr_-_treegrow_(14).jpg
Red-Winged Black Bird
- Frequency spotted: occasionally
- Season(s) spotted: summer
- Image Source
Image source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:RosebreastedGrosbeak08.jpg
Rose-Breasted Grosbeak
- Date spotted: 05/03/2022
- Frequency spotted: rare
- Season(s) spotted: spring (migration)
- Image Source
Image source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sharp-shinned_Hawk_(50958298391).jpg
Sharp-Shinned Hawk
- Date spotted: 2021-12-14
- Frequency spotted: rare
- Season(s) spotted: winter
- Image Source
Image source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Western_wood_pewee_perched_near_the_Sacramento_River-5174.jpg
Western wood pewee
- Date spotted: 2023-04-11
- Frequency spotted: rare
- Season(s) spotted: spring
- Image Source
Image source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:White-Breasted_Nuthatch_(8728).jpg
White-Breasted Nuthatch
- Frequency spotted: occasionally
- Season(s) spotted: year-round
- Image Source
Image source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Myrtle_yellow-rumped_warbler_(61156).jpg
Yellow-rumped warbler
- Frequency spotted: rare
- Season(s) spotted: Late winter
- Image Source
30 Spotted & Counting...
I put this site together as a way of keeping track of birds (which has become an interest of mine), and also to scratch my web design itch. The list is limited to birds my wife and I have spotted directly around our yard in Thornton, Colorado.
On the property there are two bird feeders. One is located in a young poplar in the back yard, and the other in a maple in the front. Below the maple is a bird bath, which the sparrows and blue jays especially seem to enjoy.
In the back is a towering old cottonwood where the hawks and owls like to sit and observe. Thick bushes line the perimeter and provide ample cover. All this, combined with a lack of pets, seems to have made my small patch of earth quite attractive to local birds.