This is a photographic yard list for our home in Pacific Grove, California. The house is built on a quarter-acre pie-shaped slice of remnant sand dunes which were planted to native Monterey Pine forest perhaps 100 years ago. Those pines are now mature, and several have fallen in recent years (occasionally hitting the house). The mid-canopy is a mixture of Coast Live Oaks and introduced non-natives, including a "money-tree" eucalypt that blooms in the northern winter (but which was 90% wiped out by a falling pine on 1 Dec 2005). The photo of the rear of the house (above) was taken in 2004. Since then we've built a patio, fenced it, and installed a fountain. We are 3 blocks from the Pacific Grove coastline and, although we can hear Black Oystercatchers while we soak in the hot tub, we 'count' on our yard list only the birds seen in or directly over the yard. For this reason the total yard list is not very high.
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The following photographic yard list is in no particular order — similar to how birds appear at the feeders or in the yard — and shows 15 species per page. You can scroll through additional pages at the bottom. I have not repeated species unless distinctive subspecies were involved.
Don Roberson &
Rita Carratello
PHOTO LEGEND
and STATUS in
Pacific Grove yard
 
Black-headed Grosbeak  2 Apr 2006
scarce spring & fall migrant
Hermit Thrush  28 Jan 2006
scarce fall migrant & winterer
Chestnut-backed Chickadee  14 Apr 2005
common resident; often nests in yard
Townsend's Warbler  18 Mar 2006
common winterer Sep-Apr
Pygmy Nuthatch  3 Apr 2005
common resident; often nests in yard
Rose-breasted Grosbeak  7 Jun 2005
very rare vagrant in late spring & fall
Rufous Hummingbird  28 Mar 2005
regular spring & fall migrant in small numbers
Hermit Warbler  26 Apr 2005
rare fall & spring migrant
Brown Creeper  10 Apr 2005
uncommon resident; often nests in yard
Western Scrub-Jay  7 May 2006
common resident; has nested in yard
Acorn Woodpecker  8 Mar 2006
common resident; often nests in yard
Band-tailed Pigeon 18 Feb 2006
scarce erratic visitor year-round
Nuttall's Woodpecker  5 June 2002
rare resident; nested once (this photo)
Steller's Jay  29 Oct 2005
common resident; has nested in yard
Golden-crowned Sparrow  28 Jan 2006
common winterer Oct-Apr
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