Bird List of RustRidge Ranch
Compiled in 2019
The Peace of Wild Things
When despair of the world grows in me
And I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life
And my children's lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the
water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives
with forethought of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light.
For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
-Wendell Berry
- Great Blue Heron
- Great Egret
- Turkey Vulture
- Canada Goose
- Wood Duck
- Mallard
- American Wigeon
- Bufflehead
- Hooded Merganser
- Sharp-shinned Hawk
- Red-tailed Hawk
- Red-shouldered Hawk
- American Kestrel
- California Quail
- Wild Turkey
- Killdeer
- Greater Yellowlegs
- Eurasian Collared-Dove
- Anna's Hummingbird
- Acorn Woodpecker
- Red-breasted Sapsucker
- Nuttall's Woodpecker
- Downy Woodpecker
- Hairy Woodpecker
- Northern Flicker
- Pileated Woodpecker
- Black Phoebe
- Steller's Jay
- Western California Scrub Jay
- American Crow
- Colorado Raven
- Oak Titmouse
- White-breasted Nuthatch
- Ruby-crowned Kinglet
- Western Bluebird
- Hermit Thrush
- American Robin
- Wrentit
- Northern Mockingbird
- European Starling
- Cedar Waxwing
- Yellow-rumped Warbler
- Spotted Towhee
- White-throated Sparrow
- White-crowned Sparrow
- Golden-crowned Sparrow
- Dark-eyed Junco
- Lesser Goldfinch