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Santa Rosa Creek Trail, Spring 2021

4/28/2022

Male Bullock's Oriole, Santa Rosa Creek Trail, Santa Rosa

Another view

Male Bullock's Oriole, Santa Rosa

Male Bullock's Oriole, Santa Rosa Creek Trail

Spotted Towhee, Santa Rosa Creek Trail

Yellow-rump warbler along the trail.

Male Lesser goldfinch in the poison oak!

Male Downy woodpecker, Santa Rosa Creek Trail

Female violet-green swallow

This is a female or juvenile Bullock's Oriole I believe. April 2021

Female Nuttall's woodpecker along the trail

Western bluebird! Santa Rosa Creek Trail

Red-shouldered hawk, Santa Rosa Creek Trail, Spring 2021

Wilson's Warbler, in the redwoods near Occidental

4/27/2022

Male Wilson's warbler

More views, male Wilson's warbler

Wild forget-me-not flowers in the woods

Fairy orchids still blooming, but beginning to fade

The fairy orchids are followed by the spotted coralroot orchids, native to this area wild orchids.

Orange mushroom in the redwoods

Purple Trillium, near Occidental

Western Bluebirds nesting, friends house in Graton

4/20/2022

Female Western bluebird with nest material, Graton

Female western bluebird leaving the nest box, Graton, April 2021

Female Western bluebird

Female Nuttall's woodpecker, same location

White-breasted nuthatch, Graton, April 2021

Ragle Ranch Park, Sebastopol, April 2021

4/13/2022

Hairy woodpecker, Ragle Ranch Regional Park, Sebastopol

Yellow-rumped warblers in the park

Bullock's orioles, Ragle Park Sebastopol

Another view, Bullock's oriole.

A small meadow in the park full of these wildflowers, possibly white meadowfoam.

Singing warbling vireo, Ragle Park Sebastopol

Cedar waxwings in the park!

Brown creeper with a green worm, Ragle Park

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.

Male Hooded Oriole, Cotati backyard palm tree

4/11/2022

Male hooded oriole in tall palm tree in Cotati, these birds nest in this tree every year.

Male hooded oriole, Cotati, April 2021

More views, the male is probably looking for the best place to start the nest, although it is the female who weaves the nest.

Male Hooded Oriole, also known as Palm orioles, Cotati backyard

Tolay Lake Regional Park, Petaluma, Spring 2021

4/5/2022

White-tailed kite, Tolay Lake

Tree swallows in the park

Male Tree Swallow - great park in which to see these beautiful birds close up

Northern mockingbird, Tolay Lake

Douglas Meadowfoam wildflowers bloom in the park in the spring. This is the only place I have seen them.

Large swathes of Douglas Meadowfoam

Bullock's orioles always come to the park in the spring.

House finches in the park

Red-winged black bird

Western bluebirds nest in the park, competing for the nest boxes with the tree swallows.

Fiddleneck wildflower Tolay Lake

California Towhee on a fence post

Male Downy woodpecker

Another view, male Downy woodpecker, Tolay Lake Regional Park, Petaluma

Birds at a friend's suet feeder in Graton, April 2021

4/2/2022

Male Downy woodpecker, Graton, CA

White-breasted nuthatch approaching the feeder

Male Downy at the deck suet feeder, Graton CA

Male Nuttall's negotiating an approach

Another view, male Nuttall's woodpecker

Old birdhouse on property being used by western bluebirds, here is the male

Male Western bluebird, Graton

Beautiful male Western Bluebird, hanging out on the bird house porch

Female Nuttall's woodpecker viewing access to feeder

Closer look, female Nuttall's woodpecker

Female Nuttall's

Male Nuttall's woodpecker, nice to see these birds so close up, in Graton CA

Male Nuttall's woodpecker

While I was leaving the yard, an encounter with a perky Bewick's wren, Graton, April 2021