Saturday, May 2, 2009

Nature Sightings (May)

5/28

Morning walk around Front pond:
-Yellow warbler
-American robin
-Mourning dove
-Scarlett tananger
-Oven bird
-Cowbird
-Indigo bunting
-Chipping sparrow
-Tree swallow
-Catbird
-Red-eyed vireo

5/25

Garter snake
Northern water snake
Bald Eagle
Click beetle (photo on right)
Luna Moth

5/21
Still no red-shouldered hawks

Ridgeline trail
-bear tracks in mud
-Scarlet tanangers
-robin
-chickadee
-tufted titmouse
-red-eyed vireo
-prairie warbler
-oven bird

5/18










-4' Black rat snake
-Rosy maple moths have been showing up a lot.
-Dragonfly nymph casings by the 100s
-MIA: Red shouldered hawks - Last I saw they had one chick (5/13). I have not seen one on the nest in 4 days!

Warbler weekend II
5/9

Great Blue Heron
Canada Goose
Wood Duck
Mallard
Common Merganser
Black Vulture Turkey
Vulture
Osprey
Bald Eagle
Sharp-Shinned Hawk
Coopers Hawk
Red Shouldered Hawk
Broad Winged Hawk
Red Tailed Hawk
Wild Turkey Spotted
Sandpiper Mourning
Dove
Yellow Billed Cuckoo
Black Billed Cuckoo
Ruby Throated hummingbird
Belted Kingfisher
Northern Flicker
Red Bellied Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Hairy woodpecker
Pileated Woodpecker
Eastern Wood Pewee
Least Flycatcher
Eastern Phoebe
Great Crested Flycatcher
Eastern Kingbird
Tree Swallows
Northern Rough winged
Barn Swallow
Blue Jay
Common Raven
American Crow
Fish Crow
Black Capped chickadee
Tufted Titmouse
White Breasted Nuthatch
Red Breasted Nuthatch
House wren
Ruby crowned Kinglet
Blue gray gnatcatcher
American robin
Wood thrush
Hermit thrush
Veery
Eastern bluebird
Gray catbird
European starling
Yellow throated vireo
Blue headed vireo
Warbling vireo
Red eyed vireo
Blue winged warbler
Northern parula
Yellow warbler
Chestnut sided warbler
Magnolia warbler
Black throated blue
Yellow rumped warbler
Black throated green
Blackburnian
Prairie
Cerulean
Black and white
American redstart
Worm-eating
Ovenbird
Louisiana waterthrush
Common yellowthroat
Hooded warbler
WILSON’S WARBLER
Canada warbler
Scarlet Tanager
Northern Cardinal
Rose-breasted grosbeak
Indigo bunting
Eastern towhee
Chipping sparrow
Field sparrow
Song sparrow
White throated sparrow
White crowned sparrow
Red winged blackbird
Common grackle
Brown headed cowbird
Orchard oriole
Baltimore oriole
Purple finch
House finch
WHITE WINGED CROSSBILL
PINE SISKIN
American goldfinch
House sparrow

Warbler weekend I
5/2
Hooded warbler
Common yellowthroat
Ovenbird
Worm-eating warbler
Black-and-white warbler
Prairie warbler
Pine warbler
Blackburnian warbler
Black-throated green warbler
Yellow warbler
Northern parula
Nashville warbler
Blue-winged warbler
Warbling vireo
Cape May warbler
Scarlet tananger
Northern cardinal
Chipping sparrow
Field sparrow
Common grackle
Brown-headed cowbird
Baltimore oriole
Pine siskin
House sparrow
Ruby-crowned kinglet
Blue jay
American crow
Fish crow
Black-capped chickadee
Tufted titmouse
White-breasted nuthatch
House wren
Ruby-crowned kinglet
Blue-gray gnatcatcher
Wood thrush
American robin
Gray catbird
Canada goose
Turkey vulture
Bald eagle
Broad-winged hawk
Red-tailed hawk
Wild turkey
Mourning dove
Chimney swift
Red-bellied woodpecker
Northern flicker
Eastern phoebe
Eastern kingbird
Tree swallow