Mammals

1. Human - this is how I cool down on a hot day! ;-)
2. Least Chipmunk
3. Yellow-pine Chipmunk
4. California Ground Squirrel
5. Douglas Squirrel another
6. Black-tailed deer - Bucks - Doe - Fawn - Fawn - Fawn - More!

7. Weasel (sorry, no photo yet)

8. Black Bear - only one visit - with a beautiful 'mantle'

Birds: (We're the only water around and an arid climate - water attracts a LOT of birds!)

1. Fox Sparrow more
2. White-crowned Sparrow - another - another
3. Mountain Chickadee

4. American Goldfinch (sorry, no photo yet)

5. Golden-crowned Sparrow (sorry, no photo yet)
6. White-headed Woodpecker - male female
7. Stellar's Jay
8. Audubon's Warbler (aka Yellow-rumped Warbler) Spring male, - an albino! a pair, same pair - Photos by visitor Doug Aguillard: 1, 2, 3, 4
9. Dark-eyed Junco, wet! collecting nesting material
10. Cassin's Finch - Photos by visitor Doug Aguillard: 1, 2, 3, 4 (female)
11. Spotted Towhee - another
12. Pine Siskin - Photos by visitor Doug Aguillard: 1, 2, 3 (female), 4 (female), 5 (female)
13. Red-breasted Nuthatch - another - Photos by visitor Doug Aguillard: 1
14. Evening Grosbeak - male - female
15. Hermit Warbler - very yellow male Photos by visitor Doug Aguillard: 1 2, 3
16. MacGillivary's Warbler - Photos by visitor Doug Aguillard:1
17. Western Tanager - young male younger male, wet male female - Photos by visitor Doug Aguillard: 1, 2
18. Red Crossbill - females Photos by visitor Doug Aguillard: 1, 2 (female)
19. Yellow Warbler another image And a gorgeous photo by visitor Doug Aguillard: 1
20. Nashville Warbler
21. Lazuli Bunting - like a piece of fallen sky! more
22. Mountain Quail another, with chicks
23. American Robin (male) molting, female, another, and another

24. Mourning Dove (sorry no photo yet!)

25. Tree Swallow (sorry no photo yet!)

26. Western Wood Peewee (sorry no photo yet!)

27. Warbling Vireo (sorry no photo yet!)
28. Green Tailed Towhee another view his backside

29. Brown-headed Cowbird (sorry no photo yet!)
30. Northern Flicker another, another
31. Chipping Sparrow
32. Northern Pygmy Owl
33. Black-headed Grosbeak
34. Band-tailed Pigeon

35. Golden-crowned Sparrow (sorry no photo yet!)

36. Cooper's Hawk (sorry no photo yet!)

37. Pine Grosbeak (sorry no photo yet!)

38. Solitary Vireo (sorry no photo yet!)
39. Orange-crowned Warbler

40. Wilson's Warbler (sorry no photo yet!)

41. Williamson's Sapsucker - what a treat!(sorry no photo yet!)

42. Allen's Hummingbird (sorry no photo yet!)

43. Hairy Woodpecker - male - female

44. Ruby-crowned Kinglet (sorry no photo yet!)

45. Western Bluebird another


46. Empidonax flycatcher species (sorry no photo yet!)

47. Hermit Thrush
48. Scrub Jay

49. Common Nighthawk - scoops down to get a drink in flight!(sorry no photo yet!)

50. Golden-crowned Kinglet (sorry no photo yet!)

51. Sharp-shinned Hawk
52.

Reptiles and Amphibians:

1. Western Fence Lizard
2. Pacific Tree/Chorus Frogs - polliwog with hind legs
3. Shasta Alligator Lizard

Insects

1. Darner Dragonfly - See other Dragonflies in separate Odonata section (below)

2. Damselfly nymph - (emerging) - See other Damselflies in separate Odonata section (below)
3. Backswimmers

4. Diving Beetles (sorry no photo yet!)

5. Yellow Jackets(sorry no photo yet!)
6. Water Striders - even on the pond when iced over

7. Potato Bug/Jerusalem Cricket (2 have drowned!)(sorry no photo yet!)
8. Day flying moth - See other Moths in separate Lepidoptera section (below)

9. California Tortoiseshell - See other Butterflies in separate Lepidoptera section (below)

10. Water Wasp (sorry no photo yet!)

Odonata: Dragonflies & Damselflies:

1. Common Green Darner (sorry no photo yet!)
2. Tule Bluet
3. Twelve-spotted Skimmer newly emerged
4. Western Forktail

5. Swift Forktail(sorry no photo yet!)

6. Black Saddlebags(sorry no photo yet!)
7. Pacific Forktail another
6. Cardinal Meadowhawk - another view

8. Black-fronted Forktail (sorry no photo yet!)

10. Common Whitetail (sorry no photo yet!)
11. Variegated Meadowhawk

12. Shadow Darner (sorry no photo yet!)
13. Variable Darner
14. Four-spotted Skimmer

Lepidoptera: Butterflies and Moths

1. Tiger Moth -(Day flying Moth)
2. California Tortoiseshell closed wings - multiple puddling at the pond's beach
3. Lorquin's Admiral

4. Great Basin Wood Nymph (sorry no photo yet!)
5. Painted Lady - wings closed
6. Northern Checkerspot
7. Skipper
8. California Sister closed wings
9. Litocala Moth (L. sexsignata)

The End, for now!
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