Recent Trip Lists

Well maybe not so recent. My wife and I went to Yosemite Sept 17-20 to celebrate our 2nd Anniversary and I got to do a little birdspotting while I was there.
Mostly there were ravens, crows and Stellars Jays. Besides those I added the following tol my life list:
Northern Flicker - at Glacier Point
Blue Grouse - female, at Glacier Point
Black-backed Woodpecker - at Cranes Flat campground
Mountain Chickadee - everywhere
American Dipper - near Saddlebag Lake, east of Yosemite

Since then, my third HawkWatch, Sept 24, yielded an excellent long view of a Prairie Falcon swooping and diving at the hawk blind for five or ten minutes before flying off. We also saw long views of several Broadwing Hawks, including a dark morph, a juve, and an adult. Four or five Merlins also darted past on their way across the Golden Gate.

On that day I added to my life list:
Broadwing Hawk
Bewicks Wren
Band-tailed Pigeon - flocks flew past from time to time, some a mere thirty feet from us.

We saw about 755 raptors that day, or 185/hour, and 13 species of raptors.

By the way, here is my list in an excel file. It can be revised to use yourself:
http://www.chuckbaldwin.com/birdinglifelist.xls