sierra birds

Herewith the birds identified last weekend.

brewer's blackbird
redwinged blackbird
mountain chickadee
brown-headed cowbird
common crow
mourning dove
bald eagle
golden eagle
red-shafted flicker
dusky flycatcher
some other flycatcher
blue-gray gnatcatcher
ferruginous hawk
anna's hummingbird
scrub jay
steller's jay
oregon junco
slate-colored junco
ruby-crowned kinglet
magpie
western meadowlark
clark's nutcracker
red-breasted nuthatch
osprey
california quail
mountain quail
house sparrow
lincoln's sparrow
white-crowned sparrow
rufous-sided towhee
turkey vulture
black-throated gray warbler
myrtle warbler
orange-crowned warbler
wilson's warbler
yellow warbler
black-backed three-toed woodpecker
downy woodpecker
pileated woodpecker
white-headed woodpecker

When confirming magpie in the bird book, we learned that one is supposed to notice if it is the yellow-billed or black-billed. Glad we're amateur enough that it's not critical. I have several photos of blurry quails. My favourites were the white-headed woodpecker, the black-backed three-toed (just for the name), Clark's nutcracker, and both quails (but there were several runners-up).