Mature Adult Male Hooded Oriole 2014
Adult White-crowned Sparrow Friday, October 10, 2014
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Juvenile Hooded Oriole Saturday, September 13, 2014
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Young Adult Female Cooper's Hawk Sunday August 31, 2014
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Female Cooper's Hawk September 2014
Birds and Other Wildlife of the Ojai Valley, California, USA, 1972-2014 (photos by Jon Dieges, copyright 2014):
 A juvenile Roadrunner just released by a Licensed Bird Rehabilitator ready to live on its own in the wild. |
 A Plain Titmouse in a Coast Live Oak. |
 A Bewick's Wren. |
 A Juvenile Red-shouldered Hawk in an American Elm Tree. |
 Ban-tailed Pigeons, the wild pigeons of North America. |
 An Adult Common Yellowthroat with a homegrown mealworm in its beak |
 A Lesser Goldfinch in a Thistle in early Spring just starting to molt into deeper yellow and black colors. |
 An Adult Male Sharp-shinned Hawk (reddish breast and slate colored wings) in an Olive Tree watching for its next victim (they eat songbirds). |
 A California Thrasher; note the unusual down-curved beak which it puts to good use foraging for insects near the ground among the native grasses. |
 A juvenile Hooded Oriole (could be male or female) finally learning to hold a worm under its foot while it pulls out the guts for supper. |
 A Mourning Dove often heard in the trees, shrubs, and meadows vocalizing in mournful sad-like notes. |
 An Adult Female Sharp-shinned Hawk in Wintertime. |
 A Yellow-rumped Warbler (formerly Audubon's Warbler) in Winter Plumage. |
 An Adult Male Bullock's Oriole in a Coast Live Oak. |
 A juvenile Black-headed Grosbeak in a Coast Live Oak. |
 A difficult to identify Female Purple Finch. 
The uncommon Fox Sparrow arrives for the winter of 2014-2015.
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 The unmistakable Lazuli Bunting--the only sparrow-like songbird with this combination of colors; it stopped by on Migration. 
One of several White-crowned Sparrows whohave arrived for the winterof 2014-2015.
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 "Nutty" the Nuttall's Woodpecker, so named because he exhibited erratic behavior and never attracted a female mate in the neighborhood. 
A juvenile White-crowned Sparrow born this year arrives shortly after the Fall Equinox for the Winter of 2014-2015.
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