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Summer Waterfowl

 

American Merganser

 

Common Loon

 

Hooded Merganser

 

Mallard

 

Wood Duck

 

 

 

Waterfowl During Migration

 

American Widgeon (Baldpate)

Goldeneye

Black Duck

Greater Scaup

Blue & Snow Geese (Flying Over)

Green-winged Teal

Blue-Winged Teal

Lesser Scaup

Bufflehead

Pied-Billed Grebe

Canada Goose

Redhead

Coot

Ring-necked Duck

Double-crested Cormorant

Shoveler

Gadwall

 

 

 

Birds of Prey

 

Bald Eagle (common)

Northern Shrike (only in winter)

Barred Owl (come to our hoots; 3 landed on the deck railing on 6-4-02)

Osprey (common)

Broad-winged Hawk

Rough-legged Hawk (during migration)

Coopers Hawk (only during migration)

Saw-whet Owl

Goshawk (occasional in winter, juvenile 6-25-02)

Sharp-shinned Hawk (abundant chasing blue jays in May and September)

Great gray Owl (in winter)

Turkey Vulture (common)

Great-horned Owl

Northern Shrike (in winter)

Kestrel (one seen on property 5-7-97)

Osprey (common)

Merlin

Rough-legged Hawk (during migration)

 

 

Woodpeckers

 

Black-backed Woodpecker (uncommon)

Pileated Woodpeckers (common year-round)

Downy Woodpeckers (common year-round)

Red-bellied Woodpecker (once)

Flicker (common in summer)

Yellow-bellied Sapsucker (common in summer)

Hairy Woodpeckers (common year-round)

 

 

 

Corvids

 

Blue Jay

 

Crow (absent December to March)

 

Gray Jay

 

Raven

 

 

 

Vireos

 

Blue-headed Vireo (9-3-95)

 

Philadelphia Vireo (9-3-95)

 

Red-eyed Vireo (common)

 

 

 

Warblers

 

American Redstart

Mourning Warbler (common)

Bay-breasted Warbler (nested in 1998)

Nashville Warbler (common)

Black and White Warbler

Northern Waterthrush

Blackburnian Warbler (common)

Orange-crowned Warbler (only in migration)

Black-throated Blue Warbler (seen on 8-28-98)

Ovenbird (common)

Black-throated Green Warbler (common)

Palm Warbler (only in migration)

Canada warbler (only in migration)

Pine Warbler (common)

Cape May Warbler

Tennessee Warbler (only in migration)

Chestnut-sided Warbler (common)

Wilson's Warbler (only in migration)

Common Yellowthroat (common)

Yellow Warbler

Magnolia Warbler (common)

Yellow-rumped Warbler (common)

 

 

Flycatchers

 

Eastern Kingbird (only during migration)

 

Eastern Phoebe (nests under the eaves of the garage each year)

 

Least Flycatcher

 

Olive-sided Flycatcher (only during migration)

 

 

 

Thrushes

 

Bluebirds (4 stayed for a few days in May 2003 and left)

 

Hermit Thrush

 

Robin

 

Swainson's Thrush

 

Veery

 

 

 

Sparrows - common all summer

 

Chipping Sparrow

 

Song Sparrow

 

Swamp Sparrow

 

White-throated Sparrow

 

 

 

Sparrows - seen only during migration

 

Dark-eyed Junco

 

Fox Sparrow

 

Harris Sparrow

 

Tree Sparrow

 

White-crowned Sparrow

 

 

 

Finches and Grosbeaks

 

American Goldfinch

Pine Grosbeak (only in winter)

Cardinal (a female at the feeder Nov-Dec 2001)

Pine Siskin

Common Redpoll (occasional flocks in winters)

Purple Finch

Evening Grosbeak

Rose-breasted Grosbeak

Hoary Redpoll (12/3&4/01 and 2/26/05 )

 

 

 

Other birds on the property

 

American Bittern

Red Crossbill (only in winter so far)

Black-billed Cuckoos (during tent caterpillar outbreaks)

Red-breasted Nuthatch

Black-capped Chickadee

Red-winged Blackbird

Brown Creeper

Ruby-crowned Kinglet

Brown-headed Cowbird (uncommon)

Ruby-crowned Kinglet Catbird (rare)

Cedar Waxwing

Ruby-throated Hummingbird

Common Grackle (uncommon)

Ruffed Grouse

European Starling (rare)

Rusty Blackbird (only during migration)

Great Blue Heron

Snow Bunting (only in migration)

Greater Yellowlegs (only during migration)

Spotted Sandpiper

Herring Gull

Tree Swallow

Kingfisher

White-breasted Nuthatch

Mourning Dove (rare)

Winter Wren

Northern Oriole (uncommon)

 

 

 

42 bird species living nearby but not recorded on the property yet

Alder fFycatcher

Harrier

American Pipit

House Finch

Bank Swallow

House Sparrow

Barn Swallow

House Wren

Bobolink

Killdeer

Bohemian Waxwing

Lapland Longspur

Boreal Chickadee

LeConte's Sparrow

Boreal Owl

Lincoln's Sparrow

Brewer's Blackbird

Long-eared Owl

Brown Thrasher

Marsh Wren

Chimney Swift

Northern Parula Warbler

Cliff Swallow

Red-tailed Hawk

Common Nighthawk

Savannah Sparrow

Common Pigeon (Rock Dove)

Sedge Wren

Common Snipe

Spruce Grouse

Connecticut Warbler

Three-toed Woodpecker

Eastern Wood Pewee

Vesper Sparrow

Golden-crowned Kinglet

Whip-poor-will

Golden-winged Warbler

White-winged Crossbill

Gray-cheeked Thrush (in migration)

Woodcock

Great crested Flycatcher

Yellow-bellied Flycatcher

 

 

 
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