Here’s our birding yard list (species seen in/from our yard) for the past year. You can compare it with 2012’s list here.
- Canada geese
- Goldfinch
- Tufted titmouse
- Dark-eyed junco
- Mourning dove
- Black-capped chickadee
- White-breasted nuthatch
- Downy woodpecker
- Hairy woodpecker
- Blue jay
- Brown creeper
- American crow
- Red-bellied woodpecker
- Pileated woodpecker
- Red-shouldered hawk
- Carolina wren
- Turkey vulture
- Eastern phoebe
- Turkey
- Purple finch
- Red-tailed hawk
- Northern flicker
- Barred owl
- American robin
- Eastern bluebird
- Song sparrow
- Brown-headed cowbird
- Yellow-rumped warbler
- Eastern towhee
- Whippoorwill
- Chipping sparrow
- Broad-winged hawk
- Blue-gray gnatcatcher
- Cardinal
- Black vulture
- Red-breasted nuthatch
- Rose-breasted grosbeak
- Ruby-throated hummingbird
- Red-eyed vireo
- Scarlet tanager
- Yellow-billed cuckoo
- Cedar waxwing
- Chimney swift
- Eastern kingbird
- Ovenbird
- Raven
- Screech owl
- Yellow-bellied sapsucker
- Black-throated green warbler
- Winter wren
- Sharp-shinned hawk
More this year than last – here’s hoping for a similar increase in 2014!
Species we saw in 2012 that we missed in 2013:
- Great blue heron
- Indigo bunting
- Great crested flycatcher
- Louisiana warbler
- Veery
- Golden-crowned kinglet
Looks to be very similar to the list from my farm in Indiana with a few difference. No barred owl, but great-horned owl, only hear the screech owls – they give me the willies. No hairys or sapsuckers, only downy woodpeckers and the others. Hawks are generally red-tailed, but sometimes a Cooper’s hawk picks a bird off the feeder. Every 3 year or so a bald eagle. You must like the little chipping sparrow as much as I do, you have it listed twice. King birds are our main fly catchers. Also get nightjars. And if I go down to the creeks I can see kingfishers.
oops – fixed it!