May is such a bursting month! Birds, birds, buds, buds. We’ve held our regular monthly monitoring walk, and our weekly Early Birder Morning walks, and of course been amazed but what we see and hear. Next year, we might hold the first two Early Birder walks at 7:30 or 8 am (it can be a little slow and chilly at 7); let us know what you think about that!
May Bird List
- Black-capped Chickadee
- White-throated Sparrow
- Song Sparrow (7 on 5/7)
- American Goldfinch
- Blue Jay
- White-breasted Nuthatch
- Tufted Titmouse
- White-crowned Sparrow
- Mourning Dove
- Northern Cardinal
- American Robin
- Red-bellied Woodpecker
- Rose-breasted Grosbeak
- Purple Finch
- Red-breasted Nuthatch
- Downy Woodpecker
- Hairy Woodpecker
- Broad-winged Hawk
- Chestnut-sided Warbler (FOY 5/5)
- Red-winged Blackbird (5/7)
- Ruby-throated Hummingbird (FOY 5/8)
- Northern Flicker
- Veery (5/12)
- Black-and-white Warbler (stopped by the ffeder at least twice for its own inscrutable reasons)
- Gray Catbird
- Louisiana Waterthrush
(Bold items in this list are species not recorded in April 2026)
Other wildlife: Gray and Red Squirrels, Eastern Chipmunks, Green frog, Eastern Newt.
Want to go look for birds with us? Register for one of our upcoming events or visit to the Museum. See you soon!
Below is 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 .
Just for fun and cross-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 tiktok, BlueSky, 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 and tiktok. We’ve got a Youtube profile, but mostly we just share interesting woodcarving tutorials there.
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.