August is a great month for growing and fattening up… especially if you’re a bird! We have some great pollinator plantings around the museum, which supports insects, which makes for plenty of food for many birds. We’re lucky enough this month to see and hear some of them—and some surprises too!
August Bird List
- American Goldfinch
- White-breasted Nuthatch
- Downy Woodpecker
- Mourning Dove
- Northern Cardinal
- Blue Jay
- Rose-breasted Grosbeak
- Tufted Titmouse
- Black-capped Chickadee
- Hairy Woodpecker
- Red-winged Blackbird
- Red-bellied Woodpecker
- Northern Flicker (yellow-shafted; called, then flew over the parking lot)
- Ruby-throated Hummingbird — so busy around the feeders and the bee balm!
- Red-breasted Nuthatch
- Song Sparrow
- Common Grackle
- Black-and-White Warbler
- Eastern Wood Pee-wee (heard over the outdoor microphone and speaker)
- Great Crested Flycatcher
(Bold items in this list are species not recorded in July 2026)
Other wildlife: Clearwing Sphinx moths (Hummingbird Moths) continue to pollinate the Bee Balm
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.