Patch 2012

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

  1. Canada Goose (1/7)
  2. Wood Duck (3/14)
  3. American Black Duck (1/6)
  4. Mallard (1/6)
  5. Hooded Merganser (1/6)
  6. Common Merganser (3/4)
  7. Wild Turkey (1/5)
  8. Double-crested Cormorant (5/20)
  9. Great Blue Heron (3/24)
  10. Green Heron (8/29)
  11. Turkey Vulture (4/4)
  12. Osprey (8/13)
  13. Cooper’s Hawk (3/4)
  14. Sharp-shinned Hawk (9/8)
  15. Broad-winged Hawk (8/20)
  16. Red-shouldered Hawk (10/28)
  17. Red-tailed Hawk (1/5)
  18. American Kestrel (4/10)
  19. Merlin (9/22)
  20. Killdeer (3/4)
  21. Solitary Sandpiper (5/10)
  22. American Woodcock (3/18)
  23. Ring-billed Gull (2/1)
  24. Herring Gull (2/19)
  25. Great Black-backed Gull (2/19)
  26. Rock Pigeon (1/7)
  27. Mourning Dove (1/7)
  28. Yellow-billed Cuckoo (9/4)
  29. Black-billed Cuckoo (10/12)
  30. Great Horned Owl (1/7)
  31. Chimney Swift (5/10)
  32. Ruby-throated Hummingbird (5/20)
  33. Belted Kingfisher (9/13)
  34. Red-bellied Woodpecker (1/7)
  35. Yellow-bellied Sapsucker (10/7)
  36. Downy Woodpecker (1/5)
  37. Hairy Woodpecker (1/7)
  38. Northern Flicker (1/5)
  39. Eastern Wood-Pewee (5/17)
  40. Willow Flycatcher (5/20)
  41. Eastern Phoebe (3/19)
  42. Great Crested Flycatcher (5/17)
  43. Eastern Kingbird (5/9)
  44. Blue-headed Vireo (9/17)
  45. Warbling Vireo (5/8)
  46. Red-eyed Vireo (5/15)
  47. Blue Jay (1/7)
  48. American Crow (1/7)
  49. Common Raven (8/26)
  50. Tree Swallow (3/20)
  51. Barn Swallow (4/30)
  52. Black-capped Chickadee (1/5)
  53. Tufted Titmouse (1/5)
  54. White-breasted Nuthatch (1/7)
  55. Red-breasted Nuthatch (8/14)
  56. Brown Creeper (3/4)
  57. Carolina Wren (1/5)
  58. House Wren (4/21)
  59. Winter Wren (1/6)
  60. Marsh Wren (11/3)
  61. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher (5/20)
  62. Golden-crowned Kinglet (3/24)
  63. Ruby-crowned Kinglet (10/7)
  64. Eastern Bluebird (3/4)
  65. Swainson’s Thrush (9/17)
  66. Hermit Thrush (4/15)
  67. Wood Thrush (5/10)
  68. American Robin (1/5)
  69. Gray Catbird (5/10)
  70. Northern Mockingbird (1/7)
  71. Brown Thrasher (5/20)
  72. European Starling (1/7)
  73. American Pipit (10/2)
  74. Cedar Waxwing (1/5)
  75. Ovenbird (5/20)
  76. Northern Waterthrush (5/16)
  77. Blue-winged Warbler (5/10)
  78. Black-and-white Warbler (5/10)
  79. Orange-crowned Warbler (10/16)
  80. Nashville Warbler (9/17)
  81. Common Yellowthroat (5/15)
  82. American Redstart (5/15)
  83. Northern Parula (5/16)
  84. Magnolia Warbler (9/17)
  85. Blackburnian Warbler (8/26)
  86. Yellow Warbler (5/10)
  87. Chestnut-sided Warbler (8/17)
  88. Bay-breasted Warbler (8/30)
  89. Blackpoll Warbler (5/16)
  90. Black-throated Blue Warbler (9/17)
  91. Palm Warbler (9/13)
  92. Pine Warbler (4/15)
  93. Black-throated Green Warbler (8/30)
  94. Yellow-rumped Warbler (4/17)
  95. Canada Warbler (9/8)
  96. Black-throated Green Warbler (9/8)
  97. Eastern Towhee (9/17)
  98. American Tree Sparrow (1/10)
  99. Chipping Sparrow (4/14)
  100. Field Sparrow (6/14)
  101. Savannah Sparrow (4/15)
  102. Song Sparrow (1/7)
  103. Lincoln’s Sparrow (9/17)
  104. Swamp Sparrow (1/7)
  105. Fox Sparrow (11/6)
  106. White-throated Sparrow (1/7)
  107. White-crowned Sparrow (10/7)
  108. Dark-eyed Junco (1/5)
  109. Scarlet Tanager (5/15)
  110. Northern Cardinal (1/5)
  111. Rose-breasted Grosbeak (4/30)
  112. Indigo Bunting (5/15)
  113. Bobolink (8/17)
  114. Brown-headed Cowbird (3/15)
  115. Red-winged Blackbird (3/4)
  116. Common Grackle (2/19)
  117. Rusty Blackbird (1/7)
  118. Baltimore Oriole (5/10)
  119. Orchard Oriole (5/20)
  120. Common Redpoll (12/15)
  121. Purple Finch (9/27)
  122. House Finch (1/5)
  123. Pine Siskin (10/7)
  124. American Goldfinch (1/5)
  125. House Sparrow (1/6)

Mammals

  1. Red Squirrel (1/7)
  2. Gray Squirrel (1/7)
  3. Eastern Chipmunk (3/24)
  4. Eastern Cottontail (1/7)
  5. Muskrat (2/19)
  6. Mink (7/22)
  7. Whitetail Deer (8/16)

Butterflies

  1. Silver-spotted Skipper (6/14)
  2. Common Sootywing (5/20)
  3. Juvenal’s Duskywing (4/14)
  4. Wild Indigo Duskywing (10/6)
  5. Pepper-and-salt Skipper (5/20)
  6. Least Skipper (6/30)
  7. European Skipper (6/8)
  8. Delaware Skipper (6/30)
  9. Peck’s Skipper (5/20)
  10. Hobomok Skipper (5/20)
  11. Zabulon Skipper (8/13)
  12. Dun Skipper (6/30)
  13. Broad-winged Skipper (7/22)
  14. Fiery Skipper (8/16)
  15. Black Swallowtail (5/20)
  16. Giant Swallowtail (8/7)
  17. Eastern Tiger Swallowtail (4/19)
  18. Spicebush Swallowtail (5/20)
  19. Cabbage White (4/2)
  20. Clouded Sulphur (4/4)
  21. Orange Sulphur (6/30)
  22. American Copper (5/20)
  23. Henry’s Elfin (4/30)
  24. Eastern Tailed-Blue (4/30)
  25. Spring Azure (4/19)
  26. Cherry Gall Azure (4/26)
  27. Summer Azure (6/30)
  28. Banded Hairstreak (6/30)
  29. Gray Hairstreak (8/29)
  30. Great Spangled Fritillary (7/4)
  31. Monarch (5/20)
  32. Red-spotted Purple (5/29)
  33. American Lady (4/19)
  34. Painted Lady (8/7)
  35. Red Admiral (4/19)
  36. Eastern Comma (4/4)
  37. Question Mark (4/26)
  38. Mourning Cloak (3/19)
  39. Pearl Crescent (5/20)
  40. Common Buckeye (8/4)
  41. Common Wood-Nymph (7/5)
  42. Appalachian Brown (8/7)
  43. Little Wood Satyr (5/15)
  44. Common Ringlet (5/20)

Dragonflies

  1. Ebony Jewelwing (5/24)
  2. Slender Spreadwing (6/30)
  3. Spotted Spreadwing (8/30)
  4. Eastern Forktail (4/25)
  5. Fragile Forktail (5/20)
  6. Skimming Bluet (7/3)
  7. Aurora Damsel (6/14)
  8. Common Green Darner (4/17)
  9. Green-striped Darner (8/30)
  10. Swamp Darner (7/22)
  11. Fawn Darner (8/1, have found exuviae in the past)
  12. Common Baskettail (5/20)
  13. Prince Baskettail (6/19)
  14. Clamp-tipped Emerald (6/12)
  15. Mocha Emerald (7/5)
  16. Eastern Amberwing (6/30)
  17. Painted Skimmer (6/8)
  18. Twelve-spotted Skimmer (6/12)
  19. Slaty Skimmer (7/22)
  20. Common Whitetail (5/15)
  21. Eastern Pondhawk (5/24)
  22. Blue Dasher (6/12)
  23. Halloween Pennant (7/22)
  24. Spot-winged Glider (6/30)
  25. Autumn Meadowhawk (8/7)
  26. Cherry-faced Meadowhawk (6/30)
  27. Band-winged Meadowhawk (7/25)
  28. Black Saddlebags (6/19)

Tiger Beetles

  1. Six-spotted Tiger Beetle (4/26)