As we wound down to the “end” of the year—we are really just shifting into our “winter” season—we enjoyed the last of the migrants, a sedentary birding event, and the final days of the 2024 art show.
October Bird List
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- Mourning Dove
- White-breasted Nuthatch
- Blue Jay
- Red-breasted Nuthatch
- Tufted Titmouse
- Black-capped Chickadee
- Northern Cardinal
- White-throated Sparrow
- Dark-eyed Junco
- Northern Flicker
- Downy Woodpecker
- Hairy Woodpecker
- Ruby-crowned Kinglet
- Red-bellied Woodpecker
- Ruffed Grouse (October 22)
(Bold items in this list are species not recorded in September 2024.)
October is the month for The Big Sit! (The exclamation point is part of it). Results from 2024 aren’t posted yet on their site, but for the museum’s Team Loonatics, prior years’ results include: 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022. And you can find our 2024 results as reported on eBird in 1-hr increments: 6am, 7am, 8am, 9am, 10am, 11am, 12pm, 1pm, 2pm, 3pm, 4pm, and 5pm.
We also have some regular (usually Tuesday) volunteers who record birds using eBird. Here’s a link for all official October eBird observations on the Museum’s property — from the viewing window and elsewhere, across all years of observations: https://ebird.org/hotspot/L282687?m=10&changeDate=
Just for fun and reference, this next link brings you to the iNaturalist records of birds at the Birds of Vermont Museum : https://www.inaturalist.org/places/199495#taxon=3
When you go birding, take note of your observations! Every record you contribute is part of important community science and large data monitoring for conservation.
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Oh, and p.s. We also saw gray squirrels, eastern chipmunks, and a rabbit!
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The “Through the Window” series is an informal record of observations made by staff, volunteers, and visitors. Anyone at the Museum may add to this list. Observations are usually through our viewing window: a large window with a film covering that helps hide watchers from the birds. We have chairs and binoculars to try, a white board, and many identification guides. Outdoors, several feeders are attached on a single, 8′ steel pole. A small pond, flowers and water plants, shrubs and trees add cover and (seasonally) other food choices . You can sometimes see what we see via our webcam. Note: We have finished changing webhosts so we can proceed to fixing how the netcam feeds to the site, but have not yet had time to take on this project. The image may not be refreshing properly. Feel free to ask the webmistress for updates.