Bird watching for school as a 13-year-old

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BOIDs:

Bird #1 Misc Data:

• Distance: 6 feet
• Date/Time: 5-15-89, 9:35 am
• Location: SVMS, on the cement
• Names: Starling, Sturnus Vulgaris
• Description:
• Size: 6x4 inches
• Colors: Black, orange & green tints
• Beak: Long, yellow
• Feet: Perching
• Shape:
• Tail: Sawed off angular
• M/F: Male
• Behavior:
• Motion: Walks around, looks bored
• Song: Wheet, wheet, wheheet
• Flight: Straight, swift

Bird #2 Misc Data:

• Distance:
• Date/Time: 5-25-89, 9:42 am
• Location: Bean Creek Rd, in a tree
• Names: Alan's Hummingbird, Selasphorous sasin
• Description:
• Size: 3x2 inches
• Colors: Copper body, green back, red on throat
• Beak: Long, pointed, slightly curved
• Feet: Perching?
• Shape: Thin, small
• Tail:
• M/F: Male
• Behavior:
• Motion: Darts around
• Song: Bzeeeee
• Flight: Erratic

Bird #3 Misc Data:

• Distance: 30 feet
• Date/Time: 5-25-89, 9:47 am
• Location: Bean Creek Rd, telephone wires
• Common Name: House Finch, Carpodacus Mexicanus
• Description:
• Size: 5x6
• Colors: Brown, red rump, black wings w. white stripes
• Beak: Short
• Feet: Perching, 3x1
• Shape:
• Tail:
• M/F: Male
• Behavior:
• Motion: Staring at me, like I was some kind of tourist
• Song: Tweet wee it CHEEET WEEER
• Flight:

Bird #4 Misc Data:

• Distance: 13 feet
• Date/Time:
• Location: SVMS, fence
• Common Name: Chickadee, Parus Gambeli
• Description:
• Size: 5.5x5
• Colors: Gray, white cheeks
• Beak: Short
• Feet: Perching, 3x1
• Shape: Oval, not including Tail:
• Tail:
• M/F: Female, probably
• Behavior:
• Motion: Very active, hyper
• Song: See dee dee TSIK! ... See dee dee...
• Flight: How should I know? It was sitting!

Bird #5 Misc Data

• Distance: 100 feet
• Date/Time: 5-22-89, 9:38 am
• Location: SVMS, way up in a tall tree
• Common Name: Acorn Woodpecker, Melanerpes Formicivorous
• Description:
• Size: Oh, I'd say about 5x7
• Colors: White rump, black tail, red cap
• Beak: Pointed, for hard pecking
• Feet: Clinging type, 2x2 toes (2 front, 2 back)
• Shape:
• Tail:
• M/F: Female
• Behavior:
• Motion: It was on a tree, looking bored
• Song: Whickup, Jeckup, Wheckup
• Flight:

Bird #6 Misc Data:

• Distance: 15 feet
• Date/Time: 5-25-89, 9:52 am
• Location: Montevalle, S.V.
• Names: Redwinged blackbird, Agelaius phoeniceus
• Description:
• Size: 7x8 inches, no doubt about it
• Colors: Black, red patch on shoulder of wing
• Beak: Long, pointed, probably to break seeds
• Feet: Perching, 3x1 (three front, one back)
• Shape:
• Tail: 10 feathers, from what I saw of the bird
• M/F: Male
• Behavior:
• Motion:
• In Flight: I could see the red blothches
• Song: KLECK, onkalugrfblfronka ree KLECK
• Flight: Rising and falling

Bird #7 Misc Data:

• Distance: 30 feet
• Date/Time: 5-28-89, 10:15 am
• Location: In a tree In the woods
• Names: Robin, Turdus Mi gratorius
• Description:
• Size: 10x11
• Colors: Gray back red breast
• Beak: Yellow
• Feet: Perching, 3x1
• Shape: Pear, including head, not including tail
• Tail: Ten feathered
• M/F: Male
• Behavior:
• Motion: Just sitting there screaming it's song
• Song: Tet tet pip tet tat pip PIP PIP
• Flight: Makes a tzeeee sound when flying

Bird #8 Misc Data:

• Distance: 4 feet!
• Date/Time: 5-25-89, 9:58 am
• Location: Montevalle, S.V
• Names: Ross' Goose, Chen rossii
• Description:
• Size: 20x26
• Colors: White
• Beak: Small for a goose, red
• Feet: Didn't see them
• Shape: Oval, not including neck or head
• Tail: Short
• M/F: Female
• Behavior:
• Motion: Running a round like a crazy goose
• Song: Kek kek kok plek
• Flight:

Bird #9 Misc Data:

• Distance: 3-1 ft!
• Date/Time: 5-25-89, 9:40 am
• Location: Montevalle, S.V
• Names: Mallard Duck, Anas platyrhynchos
• Description:
• Size: 19x22
• Colors: Green head & neck with white ring, blue wing patch bordered by two white stripes, reddish brown breast
• Beak: For straining, yellow
• Feet: Webbed, yellow
• Shape: Oval, not including feet, tail, head or neck
• Tail:
• M/F: Male
• Behavior:
• Motion: Waddles a round & looks very cute
• Song: Quack! obviously
• Flight: Neck stretched for ward, flight straight

Bird #10 Misc Data:

• Distance: 3-1 ft!
• Date/Time: 5-25-89, 9:41 am
• Location: Montevalle, S.V
• Names: Mallard Duck, Anas platyrhynchos
• Description:
• Size: 19x22
• Colors: Brown, black spots
• Beak: For straining, yellow
• Feet: Webbed, yellow
• Shape: Oval body
• Tail:
• M/F: Female
• Behavior:
• Motion: Waddles a round & looks very cute
• Song: Quack! obviously
• Flight: Neck stretched forward, flight straight

Bird #11 Misc Data:

• Distance: 17 feet
• Date/Time: 5-27-89, 2:45 pm
• Location: S.V, on my road
• Names: California Quail, Lophortyx californ icus
• Description:
• Size: 9x11
• Colors: Bluish gray, black plume titling forward
• Beak: Short, black
• Feet: Perching, 3x1
• Shape:
• Tail:
• M/F: Female
• Behavior:
• Motion: Skittering across the road in front of our car
• Song: Pit pt pt
• Flight:

Bird #12 Misc Data:

• Distance: 17 feet
• Date/Time: 5-27-89, 2:45 pm
• Location: S.V, on my road
• Names: California Quail, Lophortyx californicus
• Description:
• Size: 7x9
• Colors: Gray, with small black plume
• Beak: Short, black
• Feet: Perching, 3x1
• Shape:
• Tail:
• M/F: Male (it had a black throat)
• Behavior:
• Motion: Following right be hind its parents
• Song: Whatever a baby quail can manage to say!
• Flight:

Bird #13 Misc Data:

• Distance: 17 feet
• Date/Time: 5-27-89, 2:45 pm
• Location: S.V, on my road
• Names: California Quail, Lophortyx californicus
• Description:
• Size: 9x11
• Colors: Bluish gray, black plume titling forward
• Beak: Short, black
• Feet: Perching, 3x1
• Shape:
• Tail:
• M/F: Male
• Behavior:
• Motion: Walking right in front of our car!
• Song:
• Flight:

Bird #14 Misc Data:

• Distance: 50 feet
• Date/Time: 5-24-89, 11:20 am
• Location: S.V, at my house, in a tree
• Names: Stellars Jay, Cyanocitt a steller i
• Description:
• Size: 12x13.5
• Colors: Black head & back, blue chest & head
• Beak: Black, pointed
• Feet: Perching, black, 3x1
• Shape:
• Tail: 10 feathered, I think
• M/F:
• Behavior:
• Motion: Sitting there, looking in every direction
• Song: Kweech kweeck kweeck
• Flight:

Bird #15 Misc Data:

• Distance: 60 feet
• Date/Time: 5-25-89, 3:00 pm
• Location: S.V, at my house, up in a tree
• Names: Scrub Jay, Aphelocom a coerule scens
• Description:
• Size: 11x12
• Colors: Belly and throat light grey back brown
• Beak: Black
• Feet: Perching
• Shape:
• Tail:
• M/F:
• Behavior:
• Motion: Sitting there
• Song: Kweeeeek k! Krr-wheek!!
• Flight:

Bird #16 Misc Data:

• Distance: 30 feet
• Date/Time: 5-24-89, 4:23 pm
• Location: Sittin' in a tree, lookin' at me!
• Names: Plain Tit mouse, Parus Inornatus
• Description:
• Size: 5x5.5
• Colors: Grayish brown, with a crest
• Beak: Short
• Feet: Perching, 3x1
• Shape:
• Tail: Pointed down when landing
• M/F:
• Behavior:
• Motion:
• Song: Wheeti Wheet Wheeeti
• Flight:

Bird #17 Misc Data:

• Distance: 55 feet
• Date/Time: 5-22-89, 9:45 am
• Location: Telephone Wires, S.V, Bean Creek road
• Names: Mourning Dove, Zenaidura macroura
• Description:
• Size: 14x16 small head
• Colors: Gray, red feet
• Beak:
• Feet: Perching
• Shape:
• Tail: Kinda long
• M/F:
• Behavior:
• Motion: Sitting there, minding it's own business
• Song: Kooo ku koooo klu koooo
• Flight:

Bird #18 Misc Data:

• Distance: 42 feet
• Date/Time: 5-27-89, 11:35 am
• Location: The beach
• Names: California gull, Larus cal ifornicus
• Description:
• Size: 20x23
• Colors: White & gray, black blotch on wingtip
• Beak: Long, yellow, for picking up things
• Feet: Webbed
• Shape:
• Tail: Wide, white
• M/F:
• Behavior:
• Motion: Circling around in the air
• Song: reek! graak! grrrrraak!
• Flight: Alternates between gliding and flapping

Comments

[juan_gandhi]

Wow, and you knew their names! Well, to tell a quail from blue jay is not a big deal, but the others...