Pygmy nuthatches still visiting suet feeders front yard.

Chestnut-backed chickadee, front yard

Fox sparrow on the fence

Female Nuttall's woodpecker, Tolay Lake Regional Park

Juvenile white-crowned sparrow in a rosy light, Tolay Lake

Loggerhead shrike, Tolay Lake Regional Park

Closeup, Say's Phoebe, Tolay Lake

Adult red-tail hawk making a relatively low pass, Tolay Lake Regional Park

Savannah sparrow on a rusty wire fence, Tolay Lake

Soaring adult white-tailed kite, Tolay Lake

Cedar Waxwing, Willowside trail

Red-shouldered hawk along the trail

Lead bird with small fish is a female, smaller bird chasing is male.

Surf scoter, Bodega Bay

Male Bufflehead, Bodega Bay

Kildeer on the shore, Bodega Bay

White-throated sparrow, Hole in the head, Bodega

Same hawk, different view

Goldfinch feeding on the dried thistles

Male goldfinch

And also the dried grasses - goldfinch - seed eaters!

Savannah sparrows, too, in the seeds

Say's Phoebe, perched on one of the nest boxes in the park

And the Black Phoebe - both bug eaters

A flock of long-billed curlews landed in one of the open fields, and seemed to be grazing!

Usually a shore bird, the long-billed curlew in open grasslands, Tolay Lake

Small male Downy woodpecker, foraging in the tree limbs.

Male Western Bluebird, Tolay Lake Regional Park

Chubby California Towhee on a fence post, lit by the gradually setting sun

Amercian kestrel, seen on a tree-top branch driving into the park

Buffy streaks of color and peaked crown are some of the main identifiers for this sparrow

Another view, Lincoln's sparrow, the Laguna

Male Nuttall's woodpecker, the Laguna

Kinglet in the Laguna - this photo shows how small these birds are, about the same size as a leaf!

Dead grasses still in bloom from the summer

Yellow-rumped warbler

One of the most common sparrows in the Laguna, the white-crowned sparrow

Lots of Acorn woodpeckers in this park

Red-tail hawk perched in a tree, Crane Creek Regional Park

White-tailed kite out hunting, Crane Creek

Northern flicker - so well camouflaged, I mostly only see them as they leap from their perch at my approach

Red-shouldered hawk perched, Crane creek regional park

American Avocet - this coloring is supposed to indicate a non-breeding male

Also in the wetlands area of the park, the long-billed curlew

Long-billed curlew takes flight over the avocet

Flocks of small shorebirds, I think these might be Dunlins

Also, green-winged teals were feeding in the area

Great Blue Heron flies over the Laguna pond

Northern shovelers feeding, the Laguna pond

Also, green-winged teals

Juvenile red-tail hawk

Flying over the Laguna, a juvenile red-tail hawk

I think this is a Lincoln's sparrow, just learning about this bird

American robin grooms itself in a sunny spot, the Laguna

Yellow-rumped warbler shows how it gets its name

American kestrel in a tree top

Two snowy egrets in flight over the park

In the front yard at the house, a different ruby-crowned kinglet samples the feeders, this one showing a more pronounced red stripe

Black-bellied whistling duck, rare to see in this area

Black-bellied whistling duck, Lucchesi Park, Petaluma -doesn't seem to care that it's famous.

Very green headed mallard, Lucchesi Park

Lots of Canada geese in the park

A great park for seagulls - I believe this is a ring-billed gull

American Coot, Lucchesi Park

Family of mute swans on the lake, I think the browner ones are juveniles.

Townsend warbler, bird walk near Doran beach

Townsend warbler on the coast

Yellow-rumped warbler, Hole in the head, Bodega

Male and female buffleheads in flight, Bodega bay - haven't seen these since the spring.

Snowy egret on a tree branch, Bodega Bay

Black Phoebe, Hole in the Head, Bodega

Small groups of lesser scaup, also on the bay

Sanderlings? Not sure, but very small shorebirds, Bodega Bay

Burrowing owl, Tolay Lake Regional Park - very small birds.

Large Raven flew around me in a circle - must have known it was Halloween Day!

Loggerhead Shrike! My closest photo of one, known to frequent this park.

Tolay Lake Regional Park, dry as a bone, waiting for rain

Lots of Savannah sparrows still in evidence

Also, the western meadowlark

Meadowlark in the grasses

These may be ring-necked ducks, Tolay Lake fish pond

Male ring-necked duck

Gadwall? Not my best at duck identifiaction

A pair of gadwalls, Tolay Lake duck pond

Red-tailed hawk, buzzing my position

Red-tailed hawk in full glory

Goldfinch mingled with the savannah sparrows browsing the dry grass seeds

Male lesser goldfinch, Tolay Lake Regional Park