Babies have left the nest. You can hear and watch them still begging their parents for food, beaks open, wings shivering. They can be clumsy flyers, sometimes struggling to land right on branches. The ravens, in my observation, are the loudest and klutziest of newbies. Raven siblings hang out together all summer and beyond.
Thirty-nine species this week, highlighted be a Lazuli Bunting and by flushing and getting a good luck at a nighthawk.
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Mammals:
Black Tailed Jackrabbit
Cottontail Rabbit
Mule Deer
Coyote
Rock Squirrel
Brush Mouse
Birds:
House finch
Tufted Titmouse
NIghthawk
Black Capped Chickadee
Bushtit
Common Raven
Scrub Jay
Magpie
Turkey
Dark-Eyed Junco
Nighthawk in flight
Ringed Turtle Dove
Rock Dove
Western Kingbird
Lesser Goldfinch
Mountain Bluebird
Meadowlark
Rufous-sided Towhee
Broad Tailed Hummingbird
Rufous Hummingbird
Chipping sparrow
Black Headed Grosbeak
Lazuli Bunting
House wren
American Kestrel
Turkey Vulture
Great Horned Owl
Ferruginous Hawk
Red-Tailed Hawk
Killdeer
Starling
American Robin
Cooper’s Hawk
Common Poor Will
Common Nighthawk