Clear Lake

Habitat and Birds

This is a mixed conifer forest surrounding a mountain lake. Species that might be seen here include Common Loon, Pacific Loon (rare), Pied-billed Grebe, Western Grebe, Double-crested Cormorant, Great Blue Heron, ducks, Bald Eagle, Northern Goshawk, Sooty Grouse, Spotted Sandpiper, Killdeer, Ring-billed Gull, Flammulated Owl, Northern Saw-whet Owl, Vaux’s Swift, Calliope Hummingbird, Rufous Hummingbird, Redbreasted Sapsucker, Hairy Woodpecker, Black-backed Woodpecker, Northern Flicker, Pileated Woodpecker, Olive-sided Flycatcher, Western Wood-Pewee, Hammond’s Flycatcher, Cordilleran/Pacific-slope Flycatcher, Warbling Vireo, Gray Jay, Steller’s Jay, Clark’s Nutcracker, Common Raven, Tree Swallow, Violet-green Swallow, Mountain Chickadee, Red-breasted Nuthatch, Whitebreasted Nuthatch, Winter Wren, Mountain Bluebird, Western Bluebird, Townsend’s Solitaire, Swainson’s Thrush, Hermit Thrush, American Robin, Varied Thrush, Nashville Warbler, Yellow Warbler, Townsend’s Warbler, Hermit Warbler, MacGillivray’s Warbler, Common Yellowthroat, Spotted Towhee, Chipping Sparrow, Fox Sparrow, Song Sparrow, Lincoln’s Sparrow, Whitecrowned Sparrow, Dark-eyed Junco, Black-headed Grosbeak, Red-winged Blackbird, Brown-headed Cowbird, Cassin’s Finch, Purple Finch, Pine Siskin, and Evening Grosbeak.