back yard birding

Deanna and I spent a nice piece of the weekend watching the birds in the back yard. We've got a pair of persimmon trees (one Fuyu and one Hachiya,) that are now leafless and heavy with overwripe fruit so our yard is quite popular with the birds this week.

This morning, we drew up a quick list of the birds that have been spending time these last two days in our back yard. Here's the list (in no particular order): a nuttal's woodpecker, yellow-rumped warblers, cedar waxwings, lesser goldfinches, california towees, gold-crowned sparrows, white-crowned sparrows, western scrubjays, chestnut-backed chicadees, a bewick's wren, house finches, pine siskins, anna's hummingbirds, a plain titmouse, and a spotted towee.

I'll update the list if any more come through today.

update: For those of you who don't know where we live, and are interested, I've added a small map. We're at the foot of the foothills of the Santa Cruz mountains on the San Francisco peninsula.

update2: We've also spotted a mocking bird in the persimmon tree :)