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Summer Waterfowl

  • American Merganser

  • Common Loon

  • Hooded Merganser

  • Mallard

Waterfowl During Migration

  • American Widgeon (Baldpate)

  • Black Duck

  • Blue & Snow Geese (Flying Over)

  • Blue-Winged Teal

  • Bufflehead

  • Canada Goose

  • Coot

  • Double-crested Cormorant

  • Gadwall

  • Goldeneye

  • Greater Scaup

  • Green-winged Teal

  • Lesser Scaup

  • Pied-Billed Grebe

  • Redhead

  • Ring-necked Duck

  • Shoveler

Birds of Prey

  • Bald Eagle (common)

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

  • Broad-winged Hawk

  • Coopers Hawk (only during migration)

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

  • Great gray Owl (in winter)

  • Great-horned Owl

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

  • Merlin

  • Northern Shrike (only in winter)

  • Osprey (common)

  • Rough-legged Hawk (during migration)

  • Saw-whet Owl

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

  • Turkey Vulture (common)

Woodpeckers

  • Black-backed Woodpecker (uncommon)

  • Downy Woodpeckers (common year-round)

  • Flicker (common in summer)

  • Hairy Woodpeckers (common year-round)

  • Pileated Woodpeckers (common year-round)

  • Red-bellied Woodpecker (once)

  • Yellow-bellied Sapsucker (common in summer)

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

  • Bay-breasted Warbler (nested in 1998)

  • Black and White Warbler

  • Blackburnian Warbler (common)

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

  • Black-throated Green Warbler (common)

  • Canada warbler (only in migration)

  • Cape May Warbler

  • Chestnut-sided Warbler (common)

  • Common Yellowthroat (common)

  • Magnolia Warbler (common)

  • Mourning Warbler (common)

  • Nashville Warbler (common)

  • Northern Waterthrush

  • Orange-crowned Warbler (only in migration)

  • Ovenbird (common)

  • Palm Warbler (only in migration)

  • Pine Warbler (common)

  • Tennessee Warbler (only in migration)

  • Wilson's Warbler (only in migration)

  • Yellow Warbler

  • 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

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

  • Common Redpoll (occasional flocks in winters)

  • Evening Grosbeak

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

  • Pine Grosbeak (only in winter)

  • Pine Siskin

  • Purple Finch

  • Rose-breasted Grosbeak

Other birds on the property

  • American Bittern

  • Black-billed Cuckoos (during tent caterpillar outbreaks)

  • Black-capped Chickadee

  • Brown Creeper

  • Brown-headed Cowbird (uncommon)

  • Cedar Waxwing

  • Common Grackle (uncommon)

  • European Starling (rare)

  • Great Blue Heron

  • Greater Yellowlegs (only during migration)

  • Herring Gull

  • Kingfisher

  • Mourning Dove (rare)

  • Northern Oriole (uncommon)

  • Red Crossbill (only in winter so far)

  • Red-breasted Nuthatch

  • Red-winged Blackbird

  • Ruby-crowned Kinglet

  • Ruby-crowned Kinglet Catbird (rare)

  • Ruby-throated Hummingbird

  • Ruffed Grouse

  • Rusty Blackbird (only during migration)

  • Snow Bunting (only in migration)

  • Spotted Sandpiper

  • Tree Swallow

  • White-breasted Nuthatch

  • White-winged Crossbill

  • Winter Wren

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

  • Alder Flycatcher

  • American Pipit

  • Bank Swallow

  • Barn Swallow

  • Bobolink

  • Bohemian Waxwing

  • Boreal Chickadee

  • Boreal Owl

  • Brewer's Blackbird

  • Brown Thrasher

  • Chimney Swift

  • Cliff Swallow

  • Common Nighthawk

  • Common Pigeon (Rock Dove)

  • Common Snipe

  • Connecticut Warbler

  • Eastern Wood Pewee

  • Golden-crowned Kinglet

  • Golden-winged Warbler

  • Gray-cheeked Thrush (in migration)

  • Great crested Flycatcher

  • Harrier

  • House Finch

  • House Sparrow

  • House Wren

  • Indigo Bunting

  • Killdeer

  • Lapland Longspur

  • LeConte's Sparrow

  • Lincoln's Sparrow

  • Long-eared Owl

  • Marsh Wren

  • Northern Parula Warbler

  • Red-headed Woodpecker

  • Red-tailed Hawk

  • Savannah Sparrow

  • Sedge Wren

  • Spruce Grouse

  • Three-toed Woodpecker

  • Trumpeter Swan

  • Vesper Sparrow

  • Whip-poor-will

  • Woodcock

  • Yellow-bellied Flycatcher

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