Its about time I have my complete birding life list somewhere - I combined my ebird, this website, and personal memory to compile the most complete list of birds i have seen in order-ish one being oldest.

1. American Robin
2. Brown-headed Cowbird
3. Barn Swallow
4. Canada Goose
5. Mallard
6. Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
7. Carolina Chickadee
8. American Crow
9. Blue Jay
10. Northern Mockingbird
11. House Finch
12. Northern Cardinal
13. Eurasian Collared-Dove
14. Great-tailed Grackle
15. Brown Thrasher
16. House Sparrow
17. Downy Woodpecker
18. Red-tailed Hawk
19. Killdeer
20. Great Blue Heron
21. Mississippi Kite
22. Yellow-crowned Night Heron
23. Ring-billed Gull
24. Great Egret
25. Barred Owl
26. Red-winged Blackbird
27. Franklin's Gull
28. Carolina Wren
29. Western Kingbird
30. Eastern Kingbird
31. Common Grackle
32. Turkey Vulture
33. Nashville Warbler
34. Cooper's Hawk
35. Eastern Meadowlark
36. Bald Eagle
37. White-throated Sparrow
38. White-breasted Nuthatch
39. Eastern Bluebird
40. Tufted Titmouse
41. Ruby-crowned Kinglet
42. Red-bellied Woodpecker
43. Northern Flicker
44. Cedar Waxwing
45. Eastern Phoebe
46. American Goldfinch
47. Spotted Sandpiper
48. Red-shouldered Hawk
49. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
50. Painted Bunting
51. Louisiana Waterthrush
52. Wild Turkey
53. Blue-headed Vireo
54. Eastern Towhee
55. Black-and-white Warbler
56. Hooded Warbler
57. Black-throated Blue Warbler
58. Indigo Bunting
59. Chimney Swift
60. Bewick's Wren
61. Ruby-throated Hummingbird
62. European Starling
63. American Coot
64. American Kestrel
65. Harris's Sparrow
66. Northern Harrier
67. Song Sparrow
68. Pied-billed Grebe
69. Spotted Towhee
70. Pileated Woodpecker
71. Swainson's Thrush
72. Yellow-throated Warbler
73. White-crowned Sparrow
74. Summer Tanager
75. Common Nighthawk
76. Red-headed Woodpecker
77. Black Vulture
78. Brown Creeper
79. Wood Duck
80. California Quail
81. Band-tailed Pigeon
82. Acorn Woodpecker
83. Steller's Jay
84. California Scrub-Jay
85. Tree Swallow
86. Purple Finch
87. Golden-crowned Sparrow
88. Pacific Wren
89. Orange-crowned Warbler
90. Cackling Goose
91. Northern Shoveler
92. Ring-necked Duck
93. Tundra Swan
94. Double-crested Cormorant
95. Red-breasted Sapsucker
96. Black Phoebe
97. Hutton's Vireo
98. American Wigeon
99. Northern Pintail
100. Harlequin Duck
101. Black Oystercatcher
102. Pelagic Cormorant
103. Brown Pelican
104. Lesser Scaup
105. Surf Scoter
106. Bufflehead
107. Common Goldeneye
108. Ruddy Duck
109. Western Gull
110. Anna's Hummingbird
111. Hairy Woodpecker
112. Black-capped Chickadee
113. Bushtit
114. Lesser Goldfinch
115. Dark-eyed Junco
116. Yellow-rumped Warbler
117. Common Merganser
118. Violet-green Swallow
119. Red-eyed Vireo
120. Western Meadowlark
121. Fox Sparrow
122. Green Heron
123. Northern Paraula
124. Pine Warbler
125. Belted Kingfisher

Hello my dedicated and valued followers (perhaps I should call you something else... deciples perhaps?) I have recently returned to my homebase after a trip to Oregon that I have been planning for months now!! I went to visit my older sister who loves somewhere in those deep dark woods for an entire week! Ihough the main purpose of this visit was to see my sis - I also had two secondary goalz: one was to eat a crab and an oyster, and the socond was to see as many birds as possible. As some of my observant followers could deduce: I live in a landlocked state that honestly is kind of a poo poo area for birders such as myself. I think OR has more birds than OK cause there are sooooo many different types of habitats - not to mention the ocean birds that you just dont see here!

In total on this trip I recorded 59 new lifers (which almost doubles my life list on Merlin - but thats not totally accurate cause I lost my account for a long time... and didn't try to get it back... and don't record a lot of new lifers.) about half were waterbirds and half were landbirds (normal birds?). We explored the coast, wetlands, sand flats, whatever kinds of old/new growth forests they got there, and a river area. my favorite is haaaard to place. I really liked the ocean though we didn't see many birds (I saw a lot of tidepool creatures tho - see pic!) I saw my favorite bird of the trip there: the black oystercatcher!

If you were wodering, I ate exactly ONE oyster and felt like I was choking on it cause Cortney told me not to chew and just gulp it down... perhaps this is what a the oystercatcher feels like all the time. I also ate some clam chowder that was so good I had a foodgasm. OOH! I also had some sablefish in some kind of mushroomie stirfry - the sign on the dock says that they catch it via longline which reminded me of one of my favorite movies Captain's Courageous! I think in that movie they catch sablefish (black cod) and halibut. We also bought two crabs from a ship called the Chelsea Rose. I hate to say it, but their deaths were at my hand (I was brave enough to grab them even with their pinching claws and throw them in the boiling pot) and I even learned how to clean them and scoop out their gutz n stuff! Sooooo delish! I liked the meat in the head more than the big claw.

I will probably post about the birding highlights of my trip but it would be a LOT to post every single one of the birds I saw. I'll link here a list of the posts I make, and maybe a list of all the specific birds I saw too... eventually. Also I will be making a seperate dedicated post on my feminist blog about the enchanted forest so keep an eye out for that as well! Hover your mouse over the pics to the side to see a little description!! CYA!