December is often a month of vacations and fewer observations. It’s also a properly winter month (usually), which means our birds lists can be a bit shorter than usual. But enjoy the year-round residents with us!
December Bird List
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- Black-capped Chickadee
- Blue Jay
- Dark-eyed Junco
- Mourning Dove
- White-breasted Nuthatch
- Red-breasted Nuthatch
- Downy Woodpecker
- Red-bellied Woodpecker
- Hairy Woodpecker
- Tufted Titmouse
- Northern Cardinal
- American Goldfinch
(Bold items in this list are species not recorded in November 2024.)
We also saw the Eastern Cottontail again!
We continue to be thankful for several regular volunteers who help us participate in community science programs. They record birds for Feederwatch and using eBird. Here’s a link for all official eBird observations on the Museum’s property — from the viewing window and elsewhere, across all years of observations: https://ebird.org/hotspot/L282687
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.
Want to go look for birds with us? Register for one of our upcoming events or visit to the Museum. See you soon!
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
If you follow us on Facebook and/or Instagram, you’ll find us talking about bird news, sharing photos, suggesting events, and more. Check us out! We are currently most active on Instagram.
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 STILL 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 and let us know if you’d like to volunteer to help with this.