Herons, turkeys and quail
Great Blue Heron
Ardea herodias
Every spring, a Great Blue Heron comes most afternoons and stalks the meadow hunting for gophers, moles and voles. Have witnessed them stabbing their beak into the ground, pulling out a gopher, throwing it up into the air and catching it, swallowing it whole. If I ever get the video I'll share here.
Great Blue Heron
Ardea herodias
Turkey
Meleagris gallopavo
Toms in display mode - they have every right to be proud of themselves
California Quail
Callipepla californica
Literal bottom on the food chain
Woodpeckers
Acorn woodpecker
Melanerpes formicivorus
Very chatty
Northern flicker
Colaptes auratus
Pileated woodpecker
Dryocopus pileatus
Corvids
Steller's Jay in flight
Cyanocitta stelleri
Steller's Jay
Cyanocitta stelleri
Scrub Jay
other birds
Spotted Towhee
Pipilo maculatus
Varied Thrush
Turdus naevius
American Robin
Turdus migratorius
A round of robins looking for the worms...
Lesser goldfinch - male
Spinus psaltria (??)
I seeded a new berm with native wildflower seeds and the birds loved it - Phacelia, Amsinckia, Collinsia...
Oregon Junco - female
Junco hyemalis
A chittering of Oregon Juncos in the garden
Junco hyemalis