New year’s day is the time I tally up and report the bird species seen in my yard on the forested slope of Massanutten Mountain in Shenandoah County, Virginia. This is my seventh such annual list.
Here are the previous iterations:
- 2012 (39 species)
- 2013 (51 species)
- 2014 (58 species)
- 2015 (65 species)
- 2016 (59 species)
- 2017 (56 species)
It’s been a good year. Two new “seen for the first time ever” species for the yard are noted in bold type.
- Carolina wren
- American goldfinch
- Chickadee
- Dark-eyed junco
- Red-bellied woodpecker
- Mourning dove
- American robin
- White-breasted nuthatch
- Barred owl
- Pileated woodpecker
- Brown creeper
- Tufted titmouse
- American crow
- Downy woodpecker
- Red-tailed hawk
- Eastern phoebe
- Eastern bluebird
- Turkey vulture
- Pine warbler
- American raven
- Golden-crowned kinglet
- Sharp-shinned hawk
- Bald eagle
- Hairy woodpecker
- Yellow-bellied sapsucker
- Hermit thrush
- Black vulture
- Blue jay
- Red-eyed vireo
- Northern flicker
- Whippoorwill
- Brown-headed cowbird
- Wild turkey
- Canada geese
- Chipping sparrow
- Cooper’s hawk
- Red-shouldered hawk
- Pine siskin
- Blue-headed vireo
- Yellow-rumped warbler
- Ruby-throated hummingbird
- Ruby-crowned kinglet
- Blue-gray gnatcatcher
- Broad-winged hawk
- Eastern towhee
- Indigo bunting
- Tree swallow
- Northern cardinal
- Ovenbird
- Rose-breasted grosbeak
- Magnolia warbler
- Eastern wood-pewee
- Yellow-billed cuckoo
- Scarlet tanager
- Blackpoll warbler
- Great crested flycatcher
- Chimney swift
- Black-throated green warbler
- Purple finch
- White-throated sparrow
It was a respectable year on the yard bird count front. I hope for more quality time in my yard ogling my fine feathered friends in 2019…
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