Here’s our “yard list” of birds since we moved to the new place in June:
- Pileated woodpecker
- Red-bellied woodpecker
- Eastern phoebe
- Great blue heron
- White-breasted nuthatch
- Scarlet tanager
- Whippoorwill
- Chipping sparrow
- Ruby-throated hummingbird
- Tufted titmouse
- Black-capped chickadee
- Indigo bunting
- Chimney swift
- Red-eyed vireo
- Turkey vulture
- American crow
- Great crested flycatcher
- Louisiana warbler
- Broad-winged hawk
- Eastern bluebird
- Turkey
- Carolina wren
- Downy woodpecker
- American goldfinch
- Veery
- Yellow-billed cuckoo
- Brown-headed cowbird
- Mourning dove
- Hairy woodpecker
- Flicker
- American robin
- Barred owl
- Red-breasted nuthatch
- Brown creeper
- Golden-crowned kinglet
- Blue jay
- Yellow-bellied sapsucker
- Dark-eyed junco
- Red-tailed hawk
This list is the result of very sloppy and inconsistent record-keeping, but I resolve to keep a better list in 2013, and to see more birds!
You might be interested in using eBird (eBird.org) from the Cornell University ornithology lab. It will help you keep track of what you have seen, and will help the researchers there track population and migration trends.
Yes, that’s a good new year’s resolution for me, I think. You’re the tenth person to recommend that service to me, so I reckon I should do it! Thanks.
Okay – I signed up!
Thanks again for the prompt.