 There is lots of bird life in the Madrona Woods, ranging
from the bald eagle in the top of the tallest Douglas fir to the tiny
Anna’s hummingbird (see photo gallery). Both of these are here all year
round, as are many others familiar species, like crows, robins,
black-capped and chestnut-backed chickadees, house finches, fox
sparrows and rose breasted nuthatches. Bird watchers may also see or
hear bushtits, Bewicks and winter wrens, band-tailed pigeons, Stellar's
jays, yellow-rumped, orange-crowned and Townsends warblers, golden
crowned kinglets, brown creepers, spotted towhees, flickers, pileated,
downy and hairy woodpeckers, pine siskins and their cousins the gold
finches, varied thrushes (robins’ cousins), and maybe even a
red-tailed, Coopers or sharp shinned hawk.  It would be a rare treat to see (or
more likely hear at night) the great horned and screech owls that
sometimes pass through. In the summer you might see red-winged
blackbirds, ruby crowned kinglets, olive-sided flycatchers, yellow,
orange-sided or Wilson’s warblers, western tanagers, black headed or
evening grossbeaks and song sparrows. Dark-eyed juncos appear in the
winter months, as do cedar waxwings.  Some
birds you may see a lot of are like the exotic plants; they were
brought here from other places and have thrived. Among these are house
sparrows, starlings and rock doves (what we usually call pigeons). |
