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