Tehachapi Sightings - December, 2011

Written by Jean Moore

December, 2011 total - 101 Species

Includes Tehachapi mountain area totals from our 2 Christmas Bird Counts - Tehachapi and Bear Valley Springs

Greater White-fronted Goose
Canada Goose
Wood Duck
Gadwall
American Wigeon
Mallard
Northern Shoveler
Green-winged Teal
Canvasback
Ring-necked Duck
Bufflehead
Common Merganser
Ruddy Duck
Mountain Quail
California Quail
Pied-billed Grebe
Eared Grebe
Horned Grebe
Great Blue Heron
Black-crowned Night Heron
White-tailed Kite
Northern Harrier
Sharp-shinned Hawk
Cooper's Hawk
Red-shouldered Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
Ferruginous Hawk
Rough-legged Hawk
American Kestrel
Merlin
Prairie Falcon
Virginia Rail
Sora
Common Moorhen
American Coot
Killdeer
Wilson's Snipe
Ring-billed Gull
Rock Pigeon
Band-tailed Pigeon
Eurasian Collared-Dove
Mourning Dove
Western Screech-Owl
Anna's Hummingbird
Lewis's Woodpecker
Acorn Woodpecker
Red-breasted Sapsucker
Nuttall's Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Hairy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Black Phoebe
Say's Phoebe
Loggerhead Shrike
Steller's Jay
Western Scrub-jay
American Crow
Common Raven
Horned Lark
Mountain Chickadee
Oak Titmouse
Bushtit
White-breasted Nuthatch
Pygmy Nuthatch
Brown Creeper
Rock Wren
Bewick's Wren
House Wren
Marsh Wren
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Western Bluebird
Mountain Bluebird
American Robin
Northern Mockingbird
California Thrasher
European Starling
American Pipit
Phainopepla
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Spotted Towhee
California Towhee
Rufous-crowned Sparrow
Lark Sparrow
Savannah Sparrow
Fox Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Lincoln's Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow
Golden-crowned Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
Red-winged Blackbird
Western Meadowlark
Brewer's Blackbird
Great-tailed Grackle
Cassin's Finch
House Finch
Pine Siskin
Lesser Goldfinch
Lawrence's Goldfinch
American Goldfinch
House Sparrow