Backyard Bird List

Our backyard is a small urban plot, we have some bird feeders, two Maple Trees and two Apple Trees. It is nothing spectacular though the bird seem to like it!

Birds seen and heard in our backyard:
Coopers Hawk,
Rock Pigeons,
Mourning Doves,
Ringed Turtle-Dove,
Eastern Screech Owl (heard),
Ruby-Throated Hummingbirds,
Downy Woodpeckers,
Blue Jays,
Black-Capped Chickadees,
Tufted Titmice,
White-Breasted Nuthatches,
Carolina Wrens,
Northern Mockingbirds,
American Robins,
Ruby-Crowned Kinglets,
Cedar Waxwings,
European Starlings,
Yellow Warblers,
Blackpoll Warblers,
Palm Warbler (moments after seeing the Palm we saw a Purple Finch! Both new to our yard!),
House Sparrows,
Red-Winged Blackbirds,
Baltimore Orioles,
Common Grackles,
Brown-Headed Cowbirds,
Northern Cardinals
Purple Finch,
House Finches,
American Goldfinches,
Dark-Eyed Juncos,
Chipping Sparrows,
White-Throated Sparrows,
Fox Sparrow
and Song Sparrows.


Birds seen from our backyard:
Double-Crested Cormorants,
Great-Blue Herons,
Black-Crowned Night Herons?,
Great Egret,
Mute Swans,
Canada Geese,
Mallards,
Wild Turkeys,
Turkey Vultures,
Sharp-Shinned Hawk,
Red-Tailed Hawks,
Ospreys,
Peregrine Falcon,
Merlin,
Great Black-Backed Gulls,
Herring Gulls,
Ring-Billed Gulls,
Chimney Swifts,
Tree Swallows,
Barn Swallow
and Fish Crows.