Going back to the Beaver Brook/Rock Meadow patch this year. Target is 106 birds and 150 things (where additional things include mammals, butterflies, odes, and tiger beetles). All-time total: 252 (152, 9, 53, 41, 1).
Last update 12/21 (118%, 137%):
9/17: well above the 106 now (and 112 matches my highest total), so let’s go for 125.
Birds
- Canada Goose (1/7)
- Wood Duck (3/14)
- American Black Duck (1/6)
- Mallard (1/6)
- Hooded Merganser (1/6)
- Common Merganser (3/4)
- Wild Turkey (1/5)
- Double-crested Cormorant (5/20)
- Great Blue Heron (3/24)
- Green Heron (8/29)
- Turkey Vulture (4/4)
- Osprey (8/13)
- Cooper’s Hawk (3/4)
- Sharp-shinned Hawk (9/8)
- Broad-winged Hawk (8/20)
- Red-shouldered Hawk (10/28)
- Red-tailed Hawk (1/5)
- American Kestrel (4/10)
- Merlin (9/22)
- Killdeer (3/4)
- Solitary Sandpiper (5/10)
- American Woodcock (3/18)
- Ring-billed Gull (2/1)
- Herring Gull (2/19)
- Great Black-backed Gull (2/19)
- Rock Pigeon (1/7)
- Mourning Dove (1/7)
- Yellow-billed Cuckoo (9/4)
- Black-billed Cuckoo (10/12)
- Great Horned Owl (1/7)
- Chimney Swift (5/10)
- Ruby-throated Hummingbird (5/20)
- Belted Kingfisher (9/13)
- Red-bellied Woodpecker (1/7)
- Yellow-bellied Sapsucker (10/7)
- Downy Woodpecker (1/5)
- Hairy Woodpecker (1/7)
- Northern Flicker (1/5)
- Eastern Wood-Pewee (5/17)
- Willow Flycatcher (5/20)
- Eastern Phoebe (3/19)
- Great Crested Flycatcher (5/17)
- Eastern Kingbird (5/9)
- Blue-headed Vireo (9/17)
- Warbling Vireo (5/8)
- Red-eyed Vireo (5/15)
- Blue Jay (1/7)
- American Crow (1/7)
- Common Raven (8/26)
- Tree Swallow (3/20)
- Barn Swallow (4/30)
- Black-capped Chickadee (1/5)
- Tufted Titmouse (1/5)
- White-breasted Nuthatch (1/7)
- Red-breasted Nuthatch (8/14)
- Brown Creeper (3/4)
- Carolina Wren (1/5)
- House Wren (4/21)
- Winter Wren (1/6)
- Marsh Wren (11/3)
- Blue-gray Gnatcatcher (5/20)
- Golden-crowned Kinglet (3/24)
- Ruby-crowned Kinglet (10/7)
- Eastern Bluebird (3/4)
- Swainson’s Thrush (9/17)
- Hermit Thrush (4/15)
- Wood Thrush (5/10)
- American Robin (1/5)
- Gray Catbird (5/10)
- Northern Mockingbird (1/7)
- Brown Thrasher (5/20)
- European Starling (1/7)
- American Pipit (10/2)
- Cedar Waxwing (1/5)
- Ovenbird (5/20)
- Northern Waterthrush (5/16)
- Blue-winged Warbler (5/10)
- Black-and-white Warbler (5/10)
- Orange-crowned Warbler (10/16)
- Nashville Warbler (9/17)
- Common Yellowthroat (5/15)
- American Redstart (5/15)
- Northern Parula (5/16)
- Magnolia Warbler (9/17)
- Blackburnian Warbler (8/26)
- Yellow Warbler (5/10)
- Chestnut-sided Warbler (8/17)
- Bay-breasted Warbler (8/30)
- Blackpoll Warbler (5/16)
- Black-throated Blue Warbler (9/17)
- Palm Warbler (9/13)
- Pine Warbler (4/15)
- Black-throated Green Warbler (8/30)
- Yellow-rumped Warbler (4/17)
- Canada Warbler (9/8)
- Black-throated Green Warbler (9/8)
- Eastern Towhee (9/17)
- American Tree Sparrow (1/10)
- Chipping Sparrow (4/14)
- Field Sparrow (6/14)
- Savannah Sparrow (4/15)
- Song Sparrow (1/7)
- Lincoln’s Sparrow (9/17)
- Swamp Sparrow (1/7)
- Fox Sparrow (11/6)
- White-throated Sparrow (1/7)
- White-crowned Sparrow (10/7)
- Dark-eyed Junco (1/5)
- Scarlet Tanager (5/15)
- Northern Cardinal (1/5)
- Rose-breasted Grosbeak (4/30)
- Indigo Bunting (5/15)
- Bobolink (8/17)
- Brown-headed Cowbird (3/15)
- Red-winged Blackbird (3/4)
- Common Grackle (2/19)
- Rusty Blackbird (1/7)
- Baltimore Oriole (5/10)
- Orchard Oriole (5/20)
- Common Redpoll (12/15)
- Purple Finch (9/27)
- House Finch (1/5)
- Pine Siskin (10/7)
- American Goldfinch (1/5)
- House Sparrow (1/6)
Mammals
- Red Squirrel (1/7)
- Gray Squirrel (1/7)
- Eastern Chipmunk (3/24)
- Eastern Cottontail (1/7)
- Muskrat (2/19)
- Mink (7/22)
- Whitetail Deer (8/16)
Butterflies
- Silver-spotted Skipper (6/14)
- Common Sootywing (5/20)
- Juvenal’s Duskywing (4/14)
- Wild Indigo Duskywing (10/6)
- Pepper-and-salt Skipper (5/20)
- Least Skipper (6/30)
- European Skipper (6/8)
- Delaware Skipper (6/30)
- Peck’s Skipper (5/20)
- Hobomok Skipper (5/20)
- Zabulon Skipper (8/13)
- Dun Skipper (6/30)
- Broad-winged Skipper (7/22)
- Fiery Skipper (8/16)
- Black Swallowtail (5/20)
- Giant Swallowtail (8/7)
- Eastern Tiger Swallowtail (4/19)
- Spicebush Swallowtail (5/20)
- Cabbage White (4/2)
- Clouded Sulphur (4/4)
- Orange Sulphur (6/30)
- American Copper (5/20)
- Henry’s Elfin (4/30)
- Eastern Tailed-Blue (4/30)
- Spring Azure (4/19)
- Cherry Gall Azure (4/26)
- Summer Azure (6/30)
- Banded Hairstreak (6/30)
- Gray Hairstreak (8/29)
- Great Spangled Fritillary (7/4)
- Monarch (5/20)
- Red-spotted Purple (5/29)
- American Lady (4/19)
- Painted Lady (8/7)
- Red Admiral (4/19)
- Eastern Comma (4/4)
- Question Mark (4/26)
- Mourning Cloak (3/19)
- Pearl Crescent (5/20)
- Common Buckeye (8/4)
- Common Wood-Nymph (7/5)
- Appalachian Brown (8/7)
- Little Wood Satyr (5/15)
- Common Ringlet (5/20)
Dragonflies
- Ebony Jewelwing (5/24)
- Slender Spreadwing (6/30)
- Spotted Spreadwing (8/30)
- Eastern Forktail (4/25)
- Fragile Forktail (5/20)
- Skimming Bluet (7/3)
- Aurora Damsel (6/14)
- Common Green Darner (4/17)
- Green-striped Darner (8/30)
- Swamp Darner (7/22)
- Fawn Darner (8/1, have found exuviae in the past)
- Common Baskettail (5/20)
- Prince Baskettail (6/19)
- Clamp-tipped Emerald (6/12)
- Mocha Emerald (7/5)
- Eastern Amberwing (6/30)
- Painted Skimmer (6/8)
- Twelve-spotted Skimmer (6/12)
- Slaty Skimmer (7/22)
- Common Whitetail (5/15)
- Eastern Pondhawk (5/24)
- Blue Dasher (6/12)
- Halloween Pennant (7/22)
- Spot-winged Glider (6/30)
- Autumn Meadowhawk (8/7)
- Cherry-faced Meadowhawk (6/30)
- Band-winged Meadowhawk (7/25)
- Black Saddlebags (6/19)
Tiger Beetles
- Six-spotted Tiger Beetle (4/26)