Backyard bird list

These are the birds we’ve seen since planting native plants in 2006.

Year-round Residents:

  • American Crow
  • American Goldfinch
  • American Robin
  • Blue Jay
  • Carolina Chickadee
  • Carolina Wren
  • Cooper’s Hawk
  • Downy Woodpecker
  • European Starling
  • House Finch
  • House Sparrow
  • Mourning Dove
  • Northern Cardinal
  • Northern Mockingbird
  • Tufted Titmouse

Summer Residents:

  • Chimney Swifts (occasional)
  • Common Grackle
  • House Wren
  • Ruby-throated Hummingbird

Winter Residents:

  • Dark-eyed Junco
  • White-crowned Sparrow (occasional)
  • White-throated Sparrow

Occasional:

  • Brown Creeper
  • Brown Thrasher
  • Brown-headed Cowbird
  • Cedar Waxwings
  • Great Blue Heron
  • Northern Flicker
  • Red-bellied Woodpecker
  • Red-breasted Nuthatch
  • Rufus-sided Towhee
  • Song Sparrow
  • White-breasted Nuthatch
  • Yellow-bellied Sapsucker

Migrants:

  • Black and White Warbler
  • Brown Thrasher
  • Catbird
  • Chestnut-sided Warbler
  • Chipping Sparrow
  • Eastern Wood Pewee
  • Golden-crowned Kinglet
  • Gray-cheeked Thrush
  • Hermit Thrush
  • Kingbird
  • Red-winged Blackbird
  • Rose-breasted Grosbeak
  • Swainson’s Thrush
  • Water Thrush
  • Wood Thrush
  • Yellow-rumped Warbler

2012 Migrants:

  • American Red Start
  • Baltimore Oriole
  • Cape May Warbler
  • Eastern Wood-Pewee
  • Indigo Bunting
  • Nashville Warbler
  • Palm Warbler
  • Scarlet Tanager