Sheep Mountain Wilderness


This mountain and canyon wilderness was right out my back door for 5 years. The same habitat is contained within these borders as is in the San Gabriel and Cucamonga wilderness areas to the west and southeast, respectively. The elevation rages from 3500 feet to just over 10,000 feet, therefore, many unusual species can be expected at all times of the year. I have spent so much time in this wilderness (including my backyard), that I am going to list every species that I have ever seen over the years. Obviously, all of the migrants begin to show up in late April. I will highlight them with the color Orange.

 

Somewhere in the Sheep Mountain Wilderness area.

The Birds:      1997-2002

Double-Crested Cormorant  (2) Great-Blue Heron Mallard
Cinnamon Teal (1) Turkey Vulture (rare) Sharp-Shinned Hawk
Cooper's Hawk Northern Goshawk White-Tailed Kite (1)
Swainson's Hawk Red-Tailed Hawk Golden Eagle
Ferruginous Hawk (1) American Kestrel California Quail
Mountain Quail Spotted Sandpiper (rare) Barn Owl
Great-Horned Owl Western Screech Owl Short-Eared Owl (1)
Common Poorwill White-Throated Swift Vaux's Swift
Anna's Hummingbird Rufous Hummingbird Calliope's Hummingbird
Greater Roadrunner (at 10,000 Feet!) Mourning Dove Band-Tailed Pigeon
Belted Kingfisher Acorn Woodpecker Red-Naped Sapsucker
Red-Breasted Sapsucker Williamson's Sapsucker Nuttal's Woodpecker
Hairy Woodpecker White-Headed Woodpecker Northern Flicker
Olive-sided Flycatcher Western-wood Pewee Dusky Flycatcher
Pacific-Sloped Flycatcher Black Phoebe Ash-Throated Flycatcher
Western Kingbird Violet-Green Swallow Rough-Winged Swallow
Stellar's Jay Scrub Jay Clark's Nutcracker
Common Raven American Crow Mountain Chickadee
Oak Titmouse Bushtit White-Breasted Nuthatch
Red-Breasted Nuthatch Brown Creeper Pygmy Nuthatch
Canyon Wren Rock Wren Bewick's Wren
House Wren American Dipper Ruby-Crowned Kinglet
Western Bluebird Townsend's Solitaire Hermit Thruch
American Robin California Thrasher Cedar Waxwing
Phainopepla European Starliing Hutton's Vireo
Warbling Vireo Orange-Crowned Warbler Nashville Warbler
Yellow Warbler Yellow-Rumped Warbler Black-Throated Gray Warbler
Townsend's Warbler Hermit Warbler MacGillivray's Warbler
Wilson's Warbler Western Tanager Black-Headed Grosebeak
Lazuli's Bunting Green-Tailed Towhee Spotted Towhee
Chipping Sparrow Black-Chinned Sparrow Sage Sparrow
Fox Sparrow Song Sparrow Loncoln's Sparrow
White-Throated Sparrow Golden-Crowned Sparrow Dark-Eyed Junco
Rufous-Crowned Sparrow    
Purple FInch House Finch Red Crossbill
Lesser Goldfinch Lawrence's Goldfinch House Sparrow