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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:

  1. Common Raven
  2. Bald Eagle
  3. Blue-headed Vireo
  4. 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