Author: Museum Staff

We list them on our white board in the order we see them (more or less, since the usually the first several are from the first day of the month). We put the ones not seen last month in bold.

• Common Grackle
• Red-winged Blackbird
• Mourning Dove
• Rose-breasted Grosbeak
• Blue Jay
• Ruby-throated Hummingbird
• Brown-headed Cowbird
• American Crow
• Baltimore Oriole
• Hairy Woodpecker
• Downy Woodpecker
• American Goldfinch
• Black-capped Chickadee
• Tufted Titmouse
• Northern Goshawk (and on 7/23, observed it taking a Mourning Dove!)
• Black-billed Cuckoo (by the pond)
• Yellow-bellied Sapsucker (nest and fledglings in the tree beyond the picnic table, later filmed by Linda Hurd for us)
• House Finch
• Eastern Phoebe
• Indigo Bunting
• Purple Finch

Some other intriguing and special notes:

• Red squirrel
• Gray Squirrel
• Chipmunks
• Sphinx Moth (at first mistaken for a Hummingbird!)
• and a baby Skunk

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 to make it more difficult for birds to see the watchers. We have chairs and binoculars to try there, a white board and many identification guides, and several feeders outside on a single, bear-resistant pole, as well as a small pond, flowers and water plants, shrubs and trees. You can sometimes see what we see via our webcam.