1025 Ferncliffe Place Bird Yard List
We moved into our new home at the Hi-Mount Estates in Metchosin (Victoria, BC) on July 2, 2015. I have been keeping track of the bird species by sight and sound. After amassing a remarkable 93 species at our previous home at Wild Pond (in just 23 months), I assumed it would take some time up here to near such totals. The habitat and geography is also much different on Ferncliffe, and I suspect it will be better for raptor migration. I also plan on setting up an acoustic nocturnal songbird migration station soon. Needless to say, I am pleased to report that we have tallied 119 species here (in 25 months)!
Update: I am glad I listened to my gut and decided in the spring of 2016 to set up a new hawkwatch site here. I regularly report sightings to the HawkCount.org website (Hawk Migration Association of North American). 16 species of diurnal raptor have already been identified here!
I have recorded the bird list in order of their appearance/record (not taxonomically).
- Turkey Vulture - July 2, 2015
- Red Crossbill - July 2, 2015
- American Robin - July 2, 2015
- Violet-green Swallow - July 2, 2015
- Common Raven - July 2, 2015
- Bald Eagle - July 2, 2015
- Dark-eyed Junco - July 2, 2015
- Chipping Sparrow - July 2, 2015
- House Wren - July 3, 2015
- Downy Woodpecker - July 3, 2015
- Northern Flicker - July 3, 2015
- Warbling Vireo - July 3, 2015
- Red-breasted Nuthatch - July 3, 2015
- Chestnut-backed Chickadee - July 3, 2015
- Common Nighthawk - July 5, 2015
- Pacific-slope Flycatcher - July 6, 2015
- Rufous Hummingbird - July 6, 2015
- Anna's Hummingbird - July 6, 2015
- Brown Creeper - July 7, 2015
- American Goldfinch - July 7, 2015
- Barn Swallow - July 9, 2015
- Spotted Towhee - July 10, 2015
- Pileated Woodpecker - July 10, 2015
- Purple Finch - July 10, 2015
- Brown-headed Cowbird - July 10, 2015
- California Quail - July 10, 2015
- Red-tailed Hawk - July 10, 2015
- Cooper's Hawk - July 10, 2015
- Hairy Woodpecker - July 11, 2015
- White-crowned Sparrow - July 13, 2015
- Rock Pigeon - July 15, 2015
- Olive-sided Flycatcher - July 17, 2015
- Orange-crowned Warbler - July 19, 2015
- Wilson's Warbler - July 21, 2015
- Pine Siskin - July 21, 2015
- Hutton's Vireo - July 22, 2015
- Vaux's Swift - July 26, 2015
- Western Tanager - July 26, 2015
- Band-tailed Pigeon - July 28, 2015
- Purple Martin - July 29, 2015
- Barred Owl - July 31, 2015
- Mallard - August 1, 2015
- Black-headed Grosbeak - August 2, 2015
- Bushtit - August 8, 2015
- House Finch - August 9, 2015
- Red-winged Blackbird - August 14, 2015
- Steller's Jay - August 14, 2015
- Swainson's Thrush - August 16, 2015
- Hermit Thrush - August 25, 2015
- Northern Pygmy-Owl - August 28, 2015
- Sharp-shinned Hawk - August 29, 2015
- Black Swift - August 29, 2015
- Great Blue Heron - August 29, 2015
- Northern Rough-winged Swallow - August 29, 2015
- Belted Kingfisher - August 30, 2015
- Townsend's Warbler - September 1, 2015
- Red-breasted Sapsucker - September 1, 2015
- Great Horned Owl - September 1, 2015
- Canada Goose - September 2, 2015
- Yellow Warbler - September 4, 2015
- Yellow-rumped Warbler - September 4, 2015
- Glaucous-winged Gull - September 4, 2015
- Eurasian Collared-Dove - September 5, 2015
- Evening Grosbeak - September 5, 2015
- Cedar Waxwing - September 5, 2015
- Sandhill Crane - September 7, 2015
- Hooded Merganser - September 10, 2015
- Brewer's Blackbird - September 11, 2015
- Varied Thrush - September 14, 2015
- Golden-crowned Sparrow - September 15, 2015
- Ruby-crowned Kinglet - September 17, 2015
- Osprey - September 17, 2015
- Black-throated Gray Warbler - September 17, 2015
- Golden-crowned Kinglet - September 18, 2015
- Greater White-fronted Goose - September 20, 2015
- Fox Sparrow - September 21, 2015
- Savannah Sparrow - October 4, 2015
- White-throated Sparrow - October 6, 2015
- Pacific Wren - October 10, 2015
- Song Sparrow - October 14, 2016
- Northwestern Crow - October 26, 2015
- American Wigeon - October 31, 2015
- Golden Eagle - November 15, 2015
- Merlin - January 16, 2016
- Bufflehead - February 1, 2016
- Bewick's Wren - February 1, 2016
- Northern Harrier - March 31, 2016
- California Gull - April 1, 2016
- Swainson's Hawk - April 2, 2016
- Northern Goshawk - April 4, 2016
- Tree Swallow - April 9, 2016
- Townsend's Solitaire - April 11, 2016
- European Starling - April 13, 2016
- Double-crested Cormorant - April 13, 2016
- Common Loon - April 15, 2016
- Broad-winged Hawk - April 19, 2016
- Common Merganser - April 24, 2016
- American Pipit - April 28, 2016
- Gray Flycatcher - April 30, 2016
- Lincoln's Sparrow - May 3, 2016
- American Kestrel - May 5, 2016
- Hammond's Flycatcher - May 6, 2016
- House Sparrow - May 10, 2016
- MacGillivray's Warbler - May 11, 2016
- Killdeer - May 20, 2016
- Mourning Dove - June 1, 2016
- Western Wood-Pewee - June 2, 2016
- Cliff Swallow - July 2, 2016
- Cassin's Vireo - July 12, 2016
- Lapland Longspur - September 10, 2016
- Green-winged Teal - September 14, 2016
- Peregrine Falcon - September 24, 2016
- White-winged Crossbill - December 11, 2016
- Barn Owl - February 20, 2017
- Red-shouldered Hawk - April 15, 2017
- Red-throated Loon - April 18, 2017
- Rough-legged Hawk - April 27, 2017
- Greater Yellowlegs - May 30, 2017
- Yellow-headed Blackbird -August 15, 2017