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Originally Posted by bujermd@yahoo
Hello! My wife and I will be moving to San Antonio later this Spring (late May), and we're curious about which bird species will be common to our backyard. Which should we be expecting?? Thanks much! D.J. & Audrey Doyle
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Here's a short list of the birds I have daily in my backyard in northeastern San Antonio:
- * Northern mockingbird
* American goldfinch (regularly 30+)
* Lesser goldfinch (much less often, and then only 1-2)
* White-winged dove
* Mourning dove
* Inca dove
* Black-capped chickadee
* Northern cardinal
* Tufted titmouse
* Carolina wren (not daily, but we have a pair we see weekly)
We have also had a Cooper's hawk use our yard to hunt several times over the past 9 months or so, including one successful white-winged dove kill. He's a beautiful hawk, and perches on our fence near our oleander bushes for fairly long stretches of time while he waits for prey to return. He's too beautiful to want to flush, even if he does occasionally nab a dove or other bird.