Where: Northern California
Looks like a barn swallow to me.
Two from Hawaii:
Barn swallow for the top one. No idea for the others - they don’t turn up over here!
Lesley
Swallow and some kind of finchy thing going from that stout beak. I’m assuming that it’s dickie-bird size and not pigeon-sized! Don’t know about that last one at all but I’m impressed by the volcanic rock!
Do they have any other kind of rock in Hawaii?
I just meant that nice lump of vesicle-filled rock. We have some round here but it’s from the upper Silurian and it’s over 400 million years old!
Red-crested Cardinal and Java Finch, noxious, non-native, invasive aliens, kill them all.
C’mon, tell us how you really feel. 
To be honest, I am pretty much in step with you regarding non-native, invasive species… especially feral animals (abandoned pets, farm animals and their offspring).
The cardinals are good wrapped in bacon and the finches go in pies.
Maybe they could be the stuffing in a bacon wrapped TURDUCKEN. 
Also in Northern California (Humboldt Bay)
Avocets! beautiful! They are moving through our area now also. I have one on a seat post too
When I lived in Indiana I had a job at a greenhouse / nursery and spent most of the time outdoors, watering plants. The local birds came in quite close because I was moving so slowly (had to fill each plant pot to the count of 10!) and because the water from the hose stirred up insects. I got to know some individuals by their unique songs.
This is a medley of 4 songs by 4 individuals of the same species.
The birds didn’t actually sing words 
I added the words myself as a mnemonic (you know, like chickadees say “Chickadee-dee-dee” and goldfinches say “potato chip, potato chip”)
What species do you think it is? (I’ll tell you later today)
Thanks! I went up to Northern California earlier this year on vacation and the only wildlife I ended up seeing were birds. I thought it might be useful to put names to the pictures. I’ll probably have a few more myself.
It looks like some species of goose up in northern Cali again. Along with some mallards as well they seem to like the geese.
Those geese are domestic no telling what kind of mixture, a number of mallards are domestic/non-migratory also. Foie Gras! Now where did I put them truffles
No takers on the birdcalls, eh?
They were song sparrows
This page of a Cornell website has a great sound clip for a song sparrow. It’s not the same as any of the ones I transcribed here, but has a similar feel to it-- very bouncy and zig-zaggy.
http://www.birds.cornell.edu/AllAboutBirds/BirdGuide/Song_Sparrow_dtl.html
[quote=“Caroluna”]No takers on the birdcalls, eh?
Sorry, from bar 15 on I was thinking a chewink, but I was having my third or fourth cup so I was little wired.
Have you listened to wren songs in slow motion? You would never guess they could pack so many notes into such a short song.
Starling plumage makes great fishing flies BTW.
the goose looks like a toulouse cross
I would hope so as I would serve them with a Languedoc Cab