A lot of everything else, if I fill the feeder, but I'd have to look up all the different species. Mostly little seed-eaters like sparrows and finches at a feeder, of course. I don't fill the feeder now because they crap all over the apples and lemons. We have hummingbirds.
Mud swallows on bridges, and in nests slapped on glass office building windows.
The marshes and creeks have herons. Sea gulls, sometimes in huge flocks, but usually a few at a time. They hang out in parking lots with the crows looking for goodies. Geese, enough to be a real nuisance. Mallard ducks, coots, and weird ducks (besides me).
Hawks on the light poles, looking for critters. Turkey vultures, usually gliding up high. Actual turkeys in the woods to the west, but I hardly ever see them. During mating season, warnings on turkeys go up on the trails right next to the mountain lion ones.
I don't think there have ever been a lot of traditional robins out here.
I'm probably missing a bunch. I don't know how many of these were here when I was a kid, because I was in the Midwest, but populations seem to be about what they were when I moved here. If one specific species of finch or something faded out, I probably wouldn't notice.
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It's wall-to-wall crows here.
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