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Tom Linda
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New Yardie
Found a nice male Common Yellowthroat in a tree in my front yard today - a new yard bird.
I've recently added 3 other yard birds; Red-naped Sapsucker, Vesper Sparrow and Blue-gray Gnatcatcher. My little town plot turns up some nice
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tblows
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I had a new yardie today - but perhaps not one to excite anyone but me. The addition of (a male) Lazuli Bunting moves the number of species on my yard
list higher into the low 90s. (I count birds seen in or from my yard.) I have lived just north of the hospital for 24 years and this is my first new
yardie since the arrival of Collared Doves. My list includes Inca Dove, Harris Sparrow and Canyon Towhee.
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Scott Rasmussen
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we to have had several new yard birds this year yesterday we had a blue grosbeak and today we had what i think was a nashville warbler but due to the
disturbution it was more likely to be a MacGillivray's warbler trying to get a shot so i can be sure
Scott
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Roger
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Looks like we have the makings of a competition here ... I'm at 92.
My latest yardie was Common Black-hawk. I have lived in the same neighborhood since 1995 - that one was a long time coming.
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wandering_tattler
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I hadn't actually been keeping a yard list myself. But I got curious, so I just did a quick tally to see about where I'm at.
There were a couple species that are quite ubiquitous at the Well, but couldn't remember if I'd actually seen/heard them while in my "yard" (Canyon
Wren, Blue Grosbeak and Black-throated Sparrow, for instance). So, with our most recent yard bird from last week (Lazuli Bunting) and not including
any of those questionable ones, my yard list is up to 89.
Game on! 
(living in a national park does have its perks!)
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Tom Linda
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I'm at 89 here in east Flagstaff. Usually, when your yard list is 80+ you've got some good stuff on there. Some of my best yardies have been Indigo
Bunting, Sage Thrasher, Common Grackle, Purple Finch and others, but the best for me was the male Golden-winged Warbler that showed up on 5/18/01.
That one made my jaw hit the ground.
I've lived in Flagstaff since 2000 and also have a nice Yavapai list having lived in Sedona for 7 years.
Cheers
Tom
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wandering_tattler
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Usually, when your yard list is 80+ you've got some good stuff on there.
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Yeah, living at Montezuma Well makes me feel almost like I'm cheating with my yard list. 
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Canyonbirder
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yard brags
I'm in the rather unique situation of having 2 yards, both within Grand Canyon NP, one in the Village and one at Desert View.
I'm not sure how many birds are on each list, but I can tell you that I have California Condor and Zone-tailed Hawk on BOTH yard lists!
Brian Gatlin
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Roger
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#93 Western Wood-Pewee was amongst a steady trickle of neo-trops through my back yard this morning.
Willow Flycatcher
Ash-throated Flycatcher
Western Kingbird
Wilson's Warbler
Virginia's Warbler
MacGillivray's Warbler
Phainopepla
N Mockingbird
Bullock's Oriole
Black-chinned, Broad-tailed, Anna's Hummingbirds
With so many fun birds and such a pretty day it was hard to get motivated to go anywhere else.
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wandering_tattler
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FYI -- It looks like a Western Wood Peewee has set up residence about 100 yards along the gravel road which leads toward beaver creek from the housing
area at MOWE. I don't remember seeing one there last year.
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Roger
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Seems like that would be an unusually low elevation for anything more than a layover. See if it's still there is a few days ...
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Roger
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Another visitor today - bonk!
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Roger
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#94 today - Olive-sided Flycatcher!
Seemed to be eating some kind of large black bee that was frequenting the flowering soap-tree yuccas.
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Tom Linda
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Well, now, Roger is just showing off!
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wandering_tattler
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Yard Bird #90: Common Yellowthroat
And FYI -- the Common Blackhawks nesting in view of the MOWE trails appear to be feeding nestlings. What are baby hawks called, anyway? Hawklets?
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wandering_tattler
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Ack! Park service jargon alert...
MOWE is the acronym for Montezuma Well, by the way. Forgot I wasn't talking to parkies when I posted that.
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Zack Zdinak
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Cool to hear about birds dropping into rural settings. Here in downtown Flag I've have had a hermit thrush in the yard once, a williamson's sapsucker
on an elm, and a roadrunner on a neighbor's roof, but I can't imagine a Golden-winged Warbler!
Do y'all count fly-overs? A peregrine, snowy egrets and a kingfisher have made tree top passes over the years.
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Mark Stevenson
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Well, each individual can go by their own rules, but for me, any species seen by me while I'm in the yard is a "yard bird". Doesn't matter if the bird
is flying over or sittting across the street or at my feet.
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wandering_tattler
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Those are my basic rules, too. For instance, just this morning, as I was walking to my car in our driveway I saw and heard a Black-throated Sparrow
singing atop a mesquite bush about 50 feet south of my yard.
That's #91, by the way.
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Roger
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| Quote: | Originally posted by wandering_tattler
Those are my basic rules, too. For instance, just this morning, as I was walking to my car in our driveway I saw and heard a Black-throated Sparrow
singing atop a mesquite bush about 50 feet south of my yard.
That's #91, by the way. |
Uh-oh, you're catching up! 
Yep, those are my rules too. In fact I've been known to rush home if I see a new potential yardie in the 'hood to get my foot on home turf... Scope is
OK if required!
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