Through the Window: April birds… snow… mammals… no snow!

Birds

Not seen (or recorded) last month are bold

• Wild Turkey
• Mourning Dove
• Red-winged Blackbird
• Black-Capped Chickadee
• Hairy Woodpecker
• Dark-eyed Junco (12 on 3/16)
• Common Grackle
• Blue Jay
• White-breasted Nuthatch
• Tufted Titmouse
• Common Redpoll (4/24)
• White-winged Crossbill (at Bob Spear’s on April 1)
• American Crow
• Red-breasted Nuthatch
• Downy Woodpecker
• American Goldfinch (male 4/6)
• American Robin
• Evening Grosbeak
• Brown-headed Cowbird (4/12)
• Northern Flicker (4/12)
• White-throated Sparrow (4/16)
• Song Sparrow (4/15)
• Northern Cardinal
• Northern Goshawk
• Fox Sparrow (3/12)
• Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
• Purple Finch (4/16)
• Winter Wren (4/19)
• Wood Ducks (seen by Bob at pond 4/16-17)
• Rose-breasted Grosbeak (4/27)

Others

• Red Squirrel
• Gray Squirrel
• Eastern Chipmunk
• Eastern Cottontail
• Eastern Newt
• White-tail Deer Scat
• Wood Frogs (at big pond 4/15)
• Bobcat (seen by Gale outside kitchen window 4/18)

The amazing snow pile (snowfall plus what slid off the roof) visible from our Viewing Window melted and was rained away finally on 4/26. It had still been 2 ½ feet deep 4/12 (and earlier had been deeper than some of our staff are tall)!