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Our wildlife

This page contains our most current list of wildlife recorded on the property.

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Current year bird lists are also visible to all eBird app users by looking for my user "N. Garay"

2024 YTD Bird Tally: 41

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Bird List

This is the 2023 list of birds sighted on or over the property; birds are listed in reverse sighting order (i.e. first bird listed is the last "new" bird seen for this year). To read more about any of these birds, check out allaboutbirds.org

Photos from our habitat...

  • 63 Green-winged Teal

  • 64 Gray Catbird

  • 65 Pine Warbler

  • 66 Yellow Warbler

  • 67 Ruby-crowned Kinglet

  • 68 House Wren

  • 69 Northern Harrier

  • 70 Broad-winged Hawk

  • 71 Golden-crowned Kinglet

  • 72 Eastern Towhee

  • 73 Wilson's Snipe

  • 74 Palm Warbler

  • 75 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker

  • 76 Carolina Chickadee

  • 77 Chipping Sparrow

  • 78 Merlin

  • 79 Great Blue Heron

  • 80 Yellow-rumped Warbler

  • 81 Fish Crow

  • 82 Osprey

  • 83 Red-headed Woodpecker

  • 84 Fox Sparrow

  • 85 Common Raven

  • 86 Savannah Sparrow

  • 87 Pileated Woodpecker

  • 88 Field Sparrow

  • 89 Ring-billed Gull

  • 90 Red-breasted Nuthatch

  • 91 Red-tailed Hawk

  • 92 Red-winged Blackbird

  • 93 Rusty Blackbird

  • 94 Black Vulture

  • 95 Brown-headed Cowbird

  • 96 Sharp-shinned Hawk

  • 97 Song Sparrow

  • 98 Eastern Bluebird

  • 99 Turkey Vulture

  • 100 Swamp Sparrow

  • 101 Common Grackle

  • 102 American Goldfinch

  • 103 American Crow

  • 104 White-crowned Sparrow

  • 105 Purple Finch

  • 106 American Robin

  • 107 Hairy Woodpecker

  • 108 Red-bellied Woodpecker

  • 109 Cooper's Hawk

  • 110 Northern Cardinal

  • 111 White-throated Sparrow

  • 112 Dark-eyed Junco

  • 113 House Finch

  • 114 House Sparrow

  • 115 European Starling

  • 116 Carolina Wren

  • 117 White-breasted Nuthatch

  • 118 Tufted Titmouse

  • 119 Black-capped Chickadee

  • 120 Blue Jay

  • 121 Northern Flicker

  • 122 Downy Woodpecker

  • 123 Mourning Dove

  • 124 Canada Goose

Common Name

  • 1 Bald Eagle

  • 2 Winter Wren

  • 3 Hermit Thrush

  • 4 Swainson's Thrush

  • 5 Brown Creeper

  • 6 Blackpoll Warbler

  • 7 Great Horned Owl

  • 8 Yellow-bellied Flycatcher

  • 9 Common Merganser

  • 10 White-eyed Vireo

  • 11 Eastern Phoebe

  • 12 Lincoln's Sparrow

  • 13 Ovenbird

  • 14 Tennessee Warbler

  • 15 Blue Grosbeak

  • 16 Brown Thrasher

  • 17 Prairie Warbler

  • 18 Alder/Willow Flycatcher (Traill's Flycatcher)

  • 19 Cape May Warbler

  • 20 Wilson's Warbler

  • 21 Bay-breasted Warbler

  • 22 Marsh Wren

  • 23 Northern Waterthrush

  • 24 Blue-winged Warbler

  • 25 Hooded Warbler

  • 26 Black-and-white Warbler

  • 27 Least Flycatcher

  • 28 Worm-eating Warbler

  • 29 Yellow-breasted Chat

  • 30 Magnolia Warbler

  • 31 Canada Warbler

  • 32 Chestnut-sided Warbler

  • 33 Rock Pigeon

  • 34 Eastern Kingbird

  • 35 Common Nighthawk

  • 36 Blackburnian Warbler

  • 37 Warbling Vireo

  • 38 Willow Flycatcher

  • 39 American Kestrel

  • 40 Chimney Swift

  • 41 Eastern Wood-Pewee

  • 42 Scarlet Tanager

  • 43 Eastern Screech-Owl

  • 44 Black-throated Blue Warbler

  • 45 Blue-headed Vireo

  • 46 Northern Parula

  • 47 Common Yellowthroat

  • 48 Nashville Warbler

  • 49 Cedar Waxwing

  • 50 American Redstart

  • 51 Orchard Oriole

  • 52 Baltimore Oriole

  • 53 Wood Thrush

  • 54 Black-throated Green Warbler

  • 55 Great Crested Flycatcher

  • 56 Double-crested Cormorant

  • 57 Red-eyed Vireo

  • 58 Red-shouldered Hawk

  • 59 Northern Mockingbird

  • 60 Ruby-throated Hummingbird

  • 61 Rose-breasted Grosbeak

  • 62 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher

Mammal List

The following mammals have been recorded on our property at least once since building our habitat; some are year-round residents.

COMMON NAME

  • Opossum

  • Short-tailed Shrew

  • Eastern Mole

  • Little Brown Bat

  • Big Brown Bat

  • Eastern Cottontail

  • European Hare

  • Eastern Chipmunk

  • Woodchuck

  • Gray Squirrel

  • Northern Flying Squirrel

  • Woodland Jumping Mouse

  • Meadow Jumping Mouse

  • Eastern Deer Mouse

  • White-footed Mouse

  • Meadow Vole

  • Southern Bog Lemming

  • Red Fox

  • Black Bear

  • Raccoon

  • Long-tailed Weasel

  • Mink

  • Striped Skunk

  • White-tailed Deer

SCIENTIFIC NAME

Didelphis marsupialis

Blarina brevicauda

Scalopus aquaticus

Myotis lucifugus

Eptesicus fuscus

Sylvilagus floridanus

Lepus capensis

Tamias striatus

Marmota monax

Sciurus carolinensis

Glaucomys sabrinus

Napaeozapus insignis

Zapus hudsonius

Peromyscus maniculatus

Peromyscus leucopus

Microtus pennsylvanicus

Synaptomys cooperi

Vulpes vulpes

Ursus americanus

Procyon lotor

Mustela frenata

Mustela vison

Mephitis mephitis

Odocoileus virginianus

Amphibians & Reptiles

The following reptiles and amphibians have been recorded on our property at least once since building our habitat; some are year-round residents while others are primarily present only during breeding or migration.

COMMON NAME

  • Eastern Garter Snake

  • Eastern Box Turtle

  • Red-Backed Salamander

  • American Toad

  • Northern Green Frog

  • Pickerel Frog

  • Wood Frog

  • Northern Spring Peeper

  • Red-Spotted Newt

SCIENTIFIC NAME

Thamnophis s. sirtalis

Terrapene c. carolina

Plethodon cinereus

Bufo americanus

Rana clamitans melanota 

Rana palustris 

Rana sylvatica 

Pseudacris c. crucifer

Notophthalmus v. viridescens

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