The Not-Too-Bad Backyard Bird Count

I'm ambivalent about this year's Great Backyard Bird Count. My birds were decidedly run-of-the-mill, with no exciting accidentals like the orchard oriole of 2011. On the other hand, Saturday morning's observations were launched with a sighting great blue heron perched on a neighbor's roof, and I logged 20 species on Sunday. Not too bad, really, considering our lazy method (Nikko, the cat, and I watched out a window our feeding stations and the surrounding skies). I even had time for a quick 15 minute count this morning, which I'll post later. Here are Saturday and Sunday's reports:

Observation Date : FEB 18, 2012
Number of Species: 15
All Reported: yes
Checklist:
       Great Blue Heron - 1
       Northern Flicker (Red-shafted) - 2
       Steller's Jay - 1
       American Crow - 1
       American Robin - 1
       Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle) - 2
       Yellow-rumped Warbler (Audubon's) - 1
       Townsend's Warbler - 1
       Fox Sparrow (Sooty) - 2
       Song Sparrow - 2 (one of the song sparrows may have been a female, but didn't get a long look at it.)
       White-throated Sparrow - 1
       White-crowned Sparrow - 3
       Dark-eyed Junco (Oregon) - 8
       Pine Siskin - 7
       House Sparrow - 4

Observation Date : FEB 19, 2012
Number of Species: 20
Checklist:
       Cackling Goose (Aleutian) - 50
       Turkey Vulture - 1
       gull sp. - 1
       Eurasian Collared-Dove - 2
       Anna's Hummingbird - 1
       Downy Woodpecker - 1
       Northern Flicker (Red-shafted) - 1
       Steller's Jay - 1 (vocalizations only, no visual)
       Common Raven - 1
       American Robin - 5
       Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle) - 2
       Yellow-rumped Warbler (Audubon's) - 1
       Townsend's Warbler - 1
       Fox Sparrow (Sooty) - 2
       White-throated Sparrow - 1
       White-crowned Sparrow - 2
       Dark-eyed Junco (Oregon) - 3
       House Finch - 5
       Pine Siskin - 2
       House Sparrow - 3

The song sparrow of previous post and fame was quite active on Saturday morning (and reliably every morning for the previous four weeks), but entirely absent Sunday and today:

Observation Date : FEB 20, 2012
Number of Species: 11
Checklist:
       Cackling Goose - 500
       American Crow - 2
       American Robin - 1
       Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle) - 3
       Yellow-rumped Warbler (Audubon's) - 1
       Fox Sparrow (Sooty) - 1
       White-throated Sparrow - 2
       White-crowned Sparrow - 1
       Dark-eyed Junco (Oregon) - 6
       Pine Siskin - 1
       House Sparrow - 5