My dog (Posey) and I go to the dog park almost every morning, so I decided to start a FOY (First of the Year) list of the birds (and non-birds) I see there. And starting from yesterday, I’ll include the date I saw them.
- Black-capped Chickadee
- Black-billed Magpie
- Downy Woodpecker
- House Sparrow
- House Finch
- Common Raven
- Common Redpoll
- Gull species
- Canada Goose
- American Crow
- Dark-eyed Junco
- Western Meadowlark
- American Robin
- Red-winged Blackbird (only the males so far) (females May 11)
- Bufflehead (a male and a female)
- Eared Grebe
- Mallard
- Willet
- Common Grackle
- Killdeer
- Owl species (we startled each other so I didn’t get a close enough look to identify it, and of course it was a day when I didn’t have my camera with me)
- Mourning Dove (May 4)
- Horned Grebe (May 5)
- American Tree Sparrow (May 5)
- Wilson’s Snipe (May 5)
- Song Sparrow (May 6)
- Yellow-rumped Warbler (May 6)
- White-throated Sparrow (May 6)
- Brown-headed Cowbird (May 7)
- Red-necked Grebe (May 8)
- Yellow-headed Blackbird (May 8)
- Lesser Scaup (May 8)
- Brown Thrasher (May 8)
- Green-winged Teal (May 9)
- Hairy Woodpecker (May 9)
- Orange-crowned Warbler (May 9)
- Tree Swallow (May 11)
- Blue-winged Teal (May 11)
- Gadwall (May 11)
- Spotted Sandpiper (May 11)
- Northern Flicker (should have been added earlier)
- Redhead (May 12)
- Northern Shoveler (May 12)
- Swainson’s Thrush (May 13)
- American Redstart (May 15)
- Yellow Warbler (May 15)
- Baltimore Oriole (May 15)
- Clay-coloured Sparrow (May 16)
- Purple Martin (May 17)
- Rose-breasted Grosbeak (May 17)
- Least Flycatcher (May 19)
- House Wren (May 19)
- American Coot (May 19)
- Harris’s Sparrow (May 19)
- Eastern Kingbird (May 24)
- Warbling Vireo (May 24)
- American Goldfinch (May 25)
- Brewer’s Blackbird (May 26)
- Black Tern (May 26)
- Chipping Sparrow (May 26)
- Alder Flycatcher (June 3)
- Common Yellowthroat (June 8)
- Canvasback (June 23)
- Cedar Waxwing (June 29)
- Vesper Sparrow (July 1)
- Sedge Wren (July 1)
- Savannah Sparrow (July 1)
- Rusty Blackbird
- Dark-eyed Junco
Non-birds
- Mourning Cloak Butterfly
- Garter Snake (May 4)
- Tick (May 6)
- Coyote (May 15)
- Mule Deer (May 17)
- Cabbage White Butterfly (May 25)
- Silvery Blue Butterfly (June 2)
- Familiar Bluet Damselfly (June 3)
- White Admilral Butterfly (July 8)