feb 1

Well, I am not exactly in NYC.
From Eaton Canyon, near the nature center, and the house in Altadena, CA:

Great Blue Heron (flyover)
Red-shouldered Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
American Kestrel
Band-tailed Pigeon (house)
Rock Pigeon
Mourning Dove
Anna’s Hummingbird
Allen’s Hummingbird
Acorn Woodpecker
Nuttall’s Woodpecker
Say’s Phoebe
Western Scrub Jay
American Crow
Common Raven
Wrentit
Oak Titmouse
White-breasted Nuthatch
ROCK WREN (1)
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Western Bluebird
Hermit Thrush (house)
American Robin (house)
Northern Mockingbird
California Thrasher
European Starling
Cedar Waxwing (25+)
Yellow-rumped Warbler
California Towhee
Spotted Towhee
Fox Sparrow
WHITE-THROATED SPARROW (1, white-striped morph)
White-crowned Sparrow
Golden-crowned Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco (house)
House Finch
American Goldfinch
Lesser Goldfinch
LAWRENCE’S GOLDFINCH (3: 1 male, 2 female)

Notes: ID’ed the WT Sparrow by seeing just its butt in some brush - I had basically just stepped off the plane and thought nothing of it for about thirty seconds… then realized I was on the other coast, and waited for it to pop out entirely to confirm the ID. Rock Wrens used to be in the canyon when I was a child, but this was the first I have seen since coming back as an adult. And goldfinches are more fun when they are mixed together and you can have a three-goldfinch morning… I love my job.