Updated Life List

First and foremost, are birds that I have identified in or from my own backyard (since I got into birding), with initial ID time/location (if different than my backyard) in parenthesis:

1. House Finch
2. House Sparrow (Nested)
3. Blue Jay
4. Spotted Towhee
5. Mountain Chickadee
6. Black-Capped Chickadee
7. Broad-Tailed Hummingbird
8. Eurasian Collared Dove
9. American Robin (Nested)
10. Northern Flicker
11. Downy Woodpecker
12. Woodhouse's Scrub Jay
13. Dark-Eyed Junco
14. Bushtit
15. Mourning Dove
16. White Breasted Nuthatch
17. Red Breasted Nuthatch
18. Lesser Goldfinch
19. American Goldfinch
20. Cooper's Hawk (First: McElmo Canyon Tour 2017)
21. White-Crowned Sparrow
22. Chipping Sparrow
23. House Wren
24. Green-tailed Towhee (Spring 2018)
25. Western Tanager
26. Townsend's Solitaire
27. Brown Creeper (First seen: Ute Valley Park Bioblitz, 2017)
28. Pine Siskin (2018)
29. Rufous Hummingbird (Summer 2018)
30. Calliope Hummingbird (Summer 2018)
31. Black-Chinned Hummingbird
32. Black Headed Grosbeak
33. Lazuli Bunting (First: McElmo Canyon Tour 2017, FCNC 2018; Yard: Spring 2020)
34. Waxwing
35. Raven
36. Wild Turkey
37. Brown-Headed Cowbird (McElmo Canyon Tour 2017)
38. Bullock's Oriole (First seen: McElmo Canyon Tour 2017)
39. Yellow Warbler
40. MacGillivray's Warbler (Spring 2018)
41. Blue Heron
42. Red Tailed Hawk
43. Pygmy Nuthatch (First: Ute Valley Park Bioblitz, 2017; yard: Winter 2018)
44. Swainson's Thrush (Spring 2019)
45. Magpie
46. Chukar (Spring 2020)
47. Lincoln's Sparrow (First: Fountain Creek Spring Bird Count, 2019; Yard: Spring 2020)
48. Lark Sparrow (First: Karval Plover Festival 2019; Yard: Spring 2020)
49. Steller's Jay (Helen Hunt Falls; Yard: Fall 2020)
50. Nighthawk (soaring, Fall 2020; possible nesting attempt a few years before that or maybe a Poorwill)
51. Common Grackle (Yard: Fall 2020 - I'm sure I've seen them many, many other places before now)
52. Evening Grosbeak (Yard: Spring 2021)
53. Sharp Shinned Hawk (First: Karval Plover Festival 2019, Yard: Spring 2021)
54. Rock Pigeon (First: unknown, Yard: Fall 2021)

Now, there are other birds that I have definitely seen in my yard, but I don't know the exact variety, but on a birding tour I saw a variety that the leader did know, or that I got a better view in another location and ID'ed the variety:


55. Some kind of gulls
56. Barn Swallows
57. Tree Swallows (Castlewood Canyon State Park)
58. Violet-Green Swallows (Cheyenne Mountain Zoo, 2018)

And of course, birds that I have seen only away from home:


59. Mallard
60. Canadian Goose
61. Great Horned Owl
62. Sandhill Crane (Monte Vista Crane Migration 2017)
63. Cardinal
64. Red-Shouldered Blackbird (Fountain Creek Nature Center)
65. Yellow-Breasted Chat
66. Bananaquit (Cozumel, 2017)
67. Roseate Spoonbill (Cozumel, 2017)
68. Muscovy Duck (Tallahassee, 2016)
69. American Coot
70. European Starling
71. American Kestrel (Rock Island Trail)
72. Western Meadow Lark
73. Western Kingbird (Denver, 201?)
74. Eastern Kingbird (Walden Ponds, 2018)
75. American White Pelican
76. Turkey Vulture
77. Yellow-Headed Blackbird (Monte Vista National Wildlife Refuge, 2017)
78. Mountain Bluebird (Dolores, 2017)
79. Plumbeous Vireo (Dolores, 2017)
80. Gambel's Quail (McElmo Canyon Tour 2017)
81. Say's Phoebe (McElmo Canyon Tour 2017)
82. White-Winged Dove (McElmo Canyon Tour 2017)
83. Double Crested Cormorant (Walden Ponds, 2017)
84. Catbird (Durango, 2017)
85. Belted Kingfisher (Fountain Creek Nature Center, 2017)
86. Hairy Woodpecker (Cheyenne Mountain State Park, 2017)
87. Western Bluebird (Cheyenne Mountain State Park, 2017)
88. Wilson's Warbler (Barr Lake State Park, banding event, 2017)
89. Osprey (St. Vrain State Park, 2017)
90. Williamson's Sapsucker (female only, Ute Valley Park Bioblitz, 2017)
91. Bald Eagle (Durango, 2017)
92. Cactus Wren (Arizona, 2017)
93. Curved-billed Thrasher (Arizona, 2017)
94. Costa's Hummingbird (Arizona, 2017)
95. Verdin (Arizona, 2017)
96. Phainopepla (Arizona, 2017)
97. Pyrrhuloxia (Arizona, 2017)
98. Golden Eagle (Barr Lake State Park, 2018)
99. Marsh Wren (Russel Lakes, 2018)
100. Green Winged Teal (Russel Lakes, 2018)
101. Red Head(Russel Lakes, 2018)
102. Ring-necked Pheasant (Rock Island Trail, 2018)
103. Wood Duck (Lake Pueblo State Park, 2018)
104. American Avocet (Walden Ponds, 2018)
105. Grebe (Prospect Lake, 2018)
106. Summer Tanager (Randall Davey Audubon trail, NM, 2018)
107. American Dipper (Rifle Falls State Park, 2018)
108. McCown's Longspur (roadside, Park County, 2018)
109. Blue Grosbeak (Fountain Creek Nature Center, 2018)
110. Spotted Sandpiper (FCNC, 2018)
111. Loggerhead Shrike (~Blaney Rd, Peyton, 2018)
112. Scaled Quail (~Blaney Rd, Peyton, 2018; Cattail Crossing, Pueblo West, Fall 2021)
113. Olive-Sides Flycatcher (Chatfield DBG, 2018)
114. Brewer's Blackbird (Rock Island Trail, 20189)
115. Canyon Wren (Eleven Mile State Park, summer 2018)
116. Grouse (Roadside, east El Paso County, summer 2018)
117. Song Sparrow ("Christmas" Bird Count, Bear Creek Nature Center, winter 2018)
118. Ring-necked Duck (Bluff Lake open space, Denver, early winter 2019)
119. Northern Pintail (Barr Lake State Park, early winter 2019)
120. Northern Shoveler (Barr Lake State Park, spring 2019)
121. Mountain Plover (Karval Plover Festival 2019)
122. Killdeer (Karval Plover Festival 2019)
123. Horned Lark (Karval Plover Festival 2019)
124. Lark Bunting(Karval Plover Festival 2019)
125. Vesper Sparrow (Karval Plover Festival 2019)
126. Burrowing Owl (Karval Plover Festival 2019)
127. Swainson's Hawk (Karval Plover Festival 2019)
128. Ferruginous Hawk (Karval Plover Festival 2019)
129. Blue-Gray Gnatcatcher (Fountain Creek Spring Bird Count, 2019)
130. Northern Rough-winged Swallow (Fountain Creek Spring Bird Count, 2019)
131. Orchard's Oriole (Fountain Creek Spring Bird Count, 2019)
132. Virginia Rail (heard only, Fountain Valley School, Fall 2019)
133. Mississippi Kite (residential street, after Fountain Valley School Field Trip, Fall 2019)
134. Red Crossbill (Cheyenne Mountain State Park, Fall 2019; yard Spring 2024)