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		Wild life visitors We live in an unincorporated area of Sacramento County, CA. Though bustling city life is all around us, our property resembles a more rural setting with abundant oak, birch, redwood and eucalyptus trees. There's plenty of food and water for the winged wildlife around us... as well as some four legged creatures. We purchased a wonderful book Western Birds, a Peterson Field Guide, by Roger Tory Peterson, published by Houghton Mifflin. This has been valuable resource when any new bird comes calling! Type Bird Description Cowbirds .....   Brown-headed Cowbird Molothrus ater Doves .....   Mourning Dove Zenaida Macroura Finches (Misc) .....   American Goldfinch Carduelis Tristis Common Rosefinch Carpodacus erythrinus House Finch Carpodacus mexicanus Purple Finch Carpodacus purpureus Fly Catchers .....   Black Phoebe Sayornis nigricans Fowl-like Birds (Misc) .....   Ring-Necked Pheasant Phasianus colchicus Wild Turkey Meleagris gallopavo Grosbeaks .....   Black-Headed Grosbeak Pheucticus melanocephalus Evening Grosbeak Coccothraustes vespertinus Hawk .....   Red-tailed Hawk Buteo jamaicensis Hummingbirds .....   Allen's Hummingbird Selasphoras sasin Anna's Hummingbird Calypte anna Rufous Hummingbird Selasphoras rufus Jays, Magpies & Crows.....   Scrub Jay Aphelocoma californica Yellow-billed Magpie Pica nuttalli Common Raven Corvus corax Junco .....   Dark-Eyed Junco (Oregon) Junco hyemalis Kinglet .....   Ruby-Crowned Kinglet Regulus calendula Nuthatch .....   White Breasted Nuthatch Sitta carolinensis Owls .....   Boreal Owl Aegolius funereus Robin .....   American Robin Turdus migratorius Sparrows .....   American Tree Sparrow Spizella arborea White Crowned Sparrow Zonoctrichia leucophrys White Throated Sparrow Zonoctrichia albicollis Thrush .....   Varied Thrush Ixoreus naevius Titmice .....   Plain Titmouse Baeolophus inornatus Towhee .....   Rufous-Sided Towhee Pipilo erythrophthalmus Waxwing .....   Cedar Waxwing ..... Bombycilla cedrorum Woodpeckers .....   Acorn Woodpecker Melanerpes formicivorus Nuttall’s Woodpecker Picoides nuttallii Gilded Flicker Colaptes chrysoides Additional critters we see often include: Animal Description Oppossum Didelphis virginiana Racoon Procyon lotor Skunk Mephitis mephitis