Upcoming Yardbirds
Meant to post something like this at 95 but not long after 96 will do as well.
What will be yard birds #97-100?
Some background: yard is pretty standard suburban-sized lot. Back yard is surrounded b spruces and has lots of feeders and a big raspberry patch. Front yard is grass with some bushes and an apple tree. Side street ends at a marshy spot about 1/4 of a mile away. I can see a sliver of Hardy Pond as well. I count anything seen or heard from, in, or over the yard.
My picks:
- Common Raven
- Bald Eagle
- Blue-headed Vireo
- American Coot
Anyone else want to guess? (full list plus candidates from nearby after the jump)
Canada Goose, Mute Swan, Wood Duck, American Wigeon, American Black Duck, Mallard, Ring-necked Duck, Bufflehead, Hooded Merganser, Common Merganser, Ruddy Duck Double-crested Cormorant Great Blue Heron, Great Egret, Green Heron Turkey Vulture, Osprey, Northern Harrier, Sharp-shinned Hawk, Cooper’s Hawk, Broad-winged Hawk, Red-tailed Hawk, American Kestrel American Coot Killdeer, Solitary Sandpiper, Least Sandpiper Ring-billed Gull, Herring Gull, Great Black-backed Gull Rock Pigeon, Mourning Dove Eastern Screech-Owl Common Nighthawk Chimney Swift, Ruby-throated Hummingbird Belted Kingfisher Red-bellied Woodpecker, Downy Woodpecker, Hairy Woodpecker, Northern Flicker Eastern Kingbird Red-eyed Vireo Blue Jay, American Crow, Fish Crow Northern Rough-winged Swallow, Tree Swallow, Barn Swallow Black-capped Chickadee, Tufted Titmouse Red-breasted Nuthatch, White-breasted Nuthatch Carolina Wren, House Wren Golden-crowned Kinglet, Ruby-crowned Kinglet Swainson’s Thrush, American Robin Gray Catbird, Northern Mockingbird European Starling Cedar Waxwing Nashville Warbler, Northern Parula, Yellow Warbler, Magnolia Warbler, Black-throated Blue Warbler, Yellow-rumped Warbler, Bay-breasted Warbler, Blackpoll Warbler, Black-and-white Warbler, American Redstart, Common Yellowthroat Eastern Towhee, American Tree Sparrow, Chipping Sparrow, Fox Sparrow, Song Sparrow, White-throated Sparrow, White-crowned Sparrow, Dark-eyed Junco Scarlet Tanager, Northern Cardinal, Rose-breasted Grosbeak Red-winged Blackbird, Common Grackle, Brown-headed Cowbird, Baltimore Oriole Common Chaffinch, Purple Finch, House Finch, Common Redpoll, Pine Siskin, American Goldfinch House Sparrow
Additional birds seen down the street: Merlin, Virginia Rail, American Woodcock, Black-billed Cuckoo, Great Horned Owl, Eastern Wood-Pewee, Willow Flycatcher, Eastern Phoebe, Great Crested Flycatcher, Warbling Vireo, Winter Wren, Hermit Thrush, Wood Thrush, Palm Warbler, Savannah Sparrow, Rusty Blackbird (8/19: Wild Turkey was left off as I didn’t have a date for it and forgot about it, it would have made the picks if I remembered).
Additional birds from Hardy Pond: Gadwall, Northern Shoveler, Northern Pintail, Green-winged Teal, Lesser Scaup, Common Goldeneye, Ruddy Duck, Pied-billed Grebe, Black-crowned Night-Heron, Red-shouldered Hawk, Spotted Sandpiper, Black Tern, Blue-headed Vireo, Warbling Vireo, Bank Swallow, Cliff Swallow, Hermit Thrush, Black-throated Green Warbler, Northern Waterthrush, Field Sparrow, Orchard Oriole