Viewing Window – Page 16 – Birds of Vermont Museum

April 2, 2011

Through the Window: March birds and others

Birds

We’ve bolded the one we didn’t observe last month.

Hairy Woodpecker (male)
Downy Woodpecker
Black-capped Chickadee
Blue Jay
Tufted Titmouse (also singing like crazy 3/27)
American Crow (heard 3/1, 2 eating corn 3/24, 1 on 3/27 until it saw me through the window)
Common Redpolls (5 on 3/4/11)
Mourning Dove
Northern Cardinal (male)
Red-breasted Nuthatch (3/13/11)
Dark-eyed Junco
White-breasted Nuthatch (3/13/11)
Grackle (3/24/11)
Red-winged Blackbird (heard 3/15/11, seen 3 on 3/24/11)
Evening Grosbeak (male and female pair 3/30/11)

Red-winged Blackbird, Carved by Bob Spear — Red-winged Blackbird, carved by Bob Spear

Mammals

Red Squirrel
Gray Squirrels (3 on 3/31/11)
Eastern Cottontail (3/8)
Eastern Chipmunk (3/15/11)

And if you’re curious, here’s a quick picture and post about what we feed the birds.

March 2, 2011

Through the Window: February Birds at the Feeders (more or less)

Birds

We’ve bolded the one we didn’t observe last month.

Tree Sparrow
Wild Turkeys (2 on 2/4; 13 on 2/24)
American Robin (7 on 2/4)
Northern Cardinal
Blue Jay
Ruffed Grouse (across the road on 2/8, near the brook)
Hairy Woodpecker
Tufted Titmouse
White-breasted Nuthatch
Dark-eyed Junco
Mourning Dove
European Starling
Raven (flying over)
Evening Grosbeak
Black-capped Chickadee
American Crow
White-winged Crossbill (Male and Female on 2/16)
Common Redpolls (3 on 2/23 on the thistle seed)

Mammals

Red Squirrel
Gray Squirrels
Fisher (tracks seen 2/16, fisher itself on 2/28)

And if you’re curious, here’s a quick picture and post about what we feed the birds.

February 1, 2011

Through the Window: January feeder birds

Birds

Downy Woodpecker at Platform feeder — Female Downy Woodpecker at the platform feeder. Photo by Kir Talmage for the Birds of Vermont Museum

Wild Turkeys (1/2/11; two talkative turkeys)
Hairy Woodpecker (both male and female)
Blue Jays
Black-capped Chickadees
Dark-eyed Junco
Tufted Titmouse
Mourning Dove
White-breasted Nuthatch
Common Redpolls
Northern Cardinal
Downy Woodpecker
American Robin (2 at 2:30 pm 1/21 on nearby branches)
Pileated Woodpecker (1/25 at the front of the Museum—happened to notice while coming into work)

Mammals

Red Squirrel
3 fat Gray Squirrels

A bit of a spare month. Perhaps we’re not sitting at the window enough?

January 2, 2011

Through the Window: December feeder birds

We had a new visitor this month, and I’ll tell you who right after the monthly list of birds. A light-weight month, perhaps for weather, but more likely for the season.

Birds

Black-capped chickadee
Tufted Titmouse
Hairy Woodpecker
Wild Turkey
Blue Jay
Dark-eyed Junco (12/7; about 18 inches of snow fell in the night of 12/6 and the morning of 12/7)
Downy Woodpecker
Northern Cardinal
White-breasted Nuthatch
Mourning Dove
American Tree Sparrow
White-throated Sparrow (12/10, a warmish, wet and windy day)
American Goldfinch (12/17)
Common Redpolls (4 of them on 12/17)

Mammals

Red Squirrel (of course)
and an Eastern Cottontail

Coincidentally, today (posting day) is the Hinesburg/Huntington Christmas Bird Count. It’s rather foggy, actually, so not too much observed yet, I’m told. But the day is still young! (In fact, I just saw a wild turkey, because it was chuckling to itself and I looked up from typing this.)

December 1, 2010

Through the Window: November Feeder Birds – and Others

What a lovely month! We started this winter’s Feeder Watch, and had a few notable visitors. Here’s the month’s list, more or less in the order spotted.

Black-capped Chickadee Carving — Black-capped Chickadee

Black-capped Chickadee
Blue Jay
Fox Sparrow
White-throated Sparrow
Tufted Titmouse
Hairy Woodpecker
Dark-eyed Junco
White-breasted Nuthatch
Ruffed Grouse
Downy Woodpecker
Mourning Dove
Evening Grosbeak
American Goldfinch
Red-breasted nuthatch
Wild Turkey
Northern Cardinal
Rusty Blackbird
American Tree Sparrow

And of course, both the Gray and Red squirrels “assisted” with the corn and seed on the ground…