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Santa Rosa Creek Trail, Spring 2021

4/28/2022

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Male Bullock's Oriole, Santa Rosa Creek Trail, Santa Rosa
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Another view
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Male Bullock's Oriole, Santa Rosa
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Male Bullock's Oriole, Santa Rosa Creek Trail
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Spotted Towhee, Santa Rosa Creek Trail
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Yellow-rump warbler along the trail.
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Male Lesser goldfinch in the poison oak!
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Male Downy woodpecker, Santa Rosa Creek Trail
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Female violet-green swallow
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This is a female or juvenile Bullock's Oriole I believe. April 2021
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Female Nuttall's woodpecker along the trail
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Western bluebird! Santa Rosa Creek Trail
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Red-shouldered hawk, Santa Rosa Creek Trail, Spring 2021
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Wilson's Warbler, in the redwoods near Occidental

4/27/2022

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Male Wilson's warbler
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More views, male Wilson's warbler
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Wild forget-me-not flowers in the woods
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Fairy orchids still blooming, but beginning to fade
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The fairy orchids are followed by the spotted coralroot orchids, native to this area wild orchids.
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Orange mushroom in the redwoods
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Purple Trillium, near Occidental
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Western Bluebirds nesting, friends house in Graton

4/20/2022

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Female Western bluebird with nest material, Graton
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Female western bluebird leaving the nest box, Graton, April 2021
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Female Western bluebird
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Female Nuttall's woodpecker, same location
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White-breasted nuthatch, Graton, April 2021
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Ragle Ranch Park, Sebastopol, April 2021

4/13/2022

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Hairy woodpecker, Ragle Ranch Regional Park, Sebastopol
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Yellow-rumped warblers in the park
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Bullock's orioles, Ragle Park Sebastopol
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Another view, Bullock's oriole.
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A small meadow in the park full of these wildflowers, possibly white meadowfoam.
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Singing warbling vireo, Ragle Park Sebastopol
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Cedar waxwings in the park!
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Brown creeper with a green worm, Ragle Park
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Brown creeper taking insects from a spider web. In their traveling up and down the tree trunks, what the webs have caught is fair game. Ragle Park, Sebastopol.
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Male Hooded Oriole, Cotati backyard palm tree

4/11/2022

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Male hooded oriole in tall palm tree in Cotati, these birds nest in this tree every year.
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Male hooded oriole, Cotati, April 2021
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More views, the male is probably looking for the best place to start the nest, although it is the female who weaves the nest.
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Male Hooded Oriole, also known as Palm orioles, Cotati backyard
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Tolay Lake Regional Park, Petaluma, Spring 2021

4/5/2022

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White-tailed kite, Tolay Lake
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Tree swallows in the park
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Male Tree Swallow - great park in which to see these beautiful birds close up
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Northern mockingbird, Tolay Lake
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Douglas Meadowfoam wildflowers bloom in the park in the spring. This is the only place I have seen them.
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Large swathes of Douglas Meadowfoam
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Bullock's orioles always come to the park in the spring.
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House finches in the park
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Red-winged black bird
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Western bluebirds nest in the park, competing for the nest boxes with the tree swallows.
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Fiddleneck wildflower Tolay Lake
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California Towhee on a fence post
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Male Downy woodpecker
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Another view, male Downy woodpecker, Tolay Lake Regional Park, Petaluma
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Birds at a friend's suet feeder in Graton, April 2021

4/2/2022

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Male Downy woodpecker, Graton, CA
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White-breasted nuthatch approaching the feeder
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Male Downy at the deck suet feeder, Graton CA
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Male Nuttall's negotiating an approach
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Another view, male Nuttall's woodpecker
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Old birdhouse on property being used by western bluebirds, here is the male
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Male Western bluebird, Graton
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Beautiful male Western Bluebird, hanging out on the bird house porch
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Female Nuttall's woodpecker viewing access to feeder
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Closer look, female Nuttall's woodpecker
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Female Nuttall's
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Male Nuttall's woodpecker, nice to see these birds so close up, in Graton CA
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Male Nuttall's woodpecker
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While I was leaving the yard, an encounter with a perky Bewick's wren, Graton, April 2021
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