Ruffed Grouse

Monk Parakeet

Red-shouldered Hawk

Zenaida Dove

Grey Kingbird

Semipalmated Sandpiper

Wilson's Plover

Bridled Quail-dove

American Oystercatcher

Mangrove Cuckoo

Green-throated Carib

Black-faced Grassquit

Antillean Crested Hummingbird

Pigeon, Scaly-naped

White-crowned Pigeon

Common Gallinule

Pearly-eyed Thrasher

Smooth-billed Ani

Chimney Swift

The chittering of swifts is a most welcome sound of early summer in Minnesota. This is the view from our balcony, where we watched their amazing aerobatic displays.

Ash-throated Flycatcher

Seen, and heard, while hiking along the Ubehebe crater in Death Valley.

Lucy's Warbler

Our one thousandth bird. Seen in May 2015 in Furnace Creek, Death Valley.

Short-billed Dowitcher

Carolina Chickadee

Brown-headed Nuthatch

Fish Crow

Black Skimmer

Boat-tailed Grackle

Xantus's Hummingbird

A chance meeting with a fellow birder led us to the gardens of the Tropicana Inn in San Jose del Cabo where we saw this elusive endemic the morning prior to our departure.

Merlin

Scientific Name: Falco columbarius

Range / Habitat:

Field Notes: Striped tail.

Personal Notes: We've been looking for this bird for a while, but finally found him in the San Jose Estuary.