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The pointer shows where our house is, on the South side of Three Tree Point, one row up from the beach on a steep hill.
The following is a list of birds we have spotted at our house or nearby.
If there is no location listed, the sighting was at our house.
Any time you see one of these icons, you can click on it to go to one of our photographs of that type of bird.
CROWS AND JAYS
HUMMINGBIRDS
PIGEONS AND DOVES
- Band-tailed Pigeon (Columba fasciata)
- Rock Pigeon (Columba livia) downtown Seattle
RAPTORS AND OWLS
- Bald Eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus)
- Barred owl (Strix varia) on Maplewild
- Cooper's Hawk (Accipiter cooperii)
- Osprey (Pandion haliaetus)
- Peregrine Falcon (Falco peregrinus) flying underneath the First Avenue South Bridge
- Red-tailed Hawk (Buteo jamaicensis) everywhere but at the house
- Saw-whet Owl (Aegolius acadicus)
- Sharp-shinned Hawk (Accipiter striatus)
SONGBIRDS
- American Goldfinch (Carduelis tristis)
- American Robin (Turdus migratorius)
- Barn Swallow (Hirundo rustica)
- Bewick's Wren (Thryomanes bewickii)
- Black-capped Chickadee (Parus atricapillus)
- Bushtit (Psaltriparus minimus)
- Cedar Waxwing (Bombycilla cedrorum)
- Chestnut-backed Chickadee (Parus rufescens)
- European Starling (Sturnus vulgaris)
- House Sparrow (Passer domesticus)
- Killdeer (Charadrius vociferus) at Lake Washington
- Red-breasted Nuthatch (Sitta canadensis)
- Red-winged Blackbird (Agelaius phoeniceus ) at the Cove in Des Moines
- Spotted Towhee (Pipilo maculatus)
- Varied Thrush (Ixoreus naevius)
- Vaux's Swift (Chaetura vauxi)
- Violet-Green Swallow (Tachycineta thalassina) at The Cove in Des Moines
- Winter Wren (Troglodytes troglodytes)
WATERBIRDS
- Belted Kingfisher (Ceryle alcyon) at the Ballard Locks
- Brandt's Cormorant (Phalacrocorax penicillatus)
- Bufflehead (Bucephala albeola) at Des Moines Marina
- Canada Goose (Branta canadensis) everywhere but at the house
- Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias)
- Green Heron (Butorides virescens) at The Cove in Des Moines
- Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos)
- Western Gull (Larus occidentalis)
WOODPECKERS
- Downy Woodpecker (Picoides pubescens)
- Northern Flicker (Colaptes auratus)
- Pileated Woodpecker (Dryocopus pileatus)
- Red-breasted Sapsucker (Sphyrapicus ruber)
All of the links go to detail pages on the Seattle Audubon Society's BirdWeb, which is an excellent resource on local birds.