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
Hairy Woodpecker
Photo ©2008 E. Talmage,
Huntington, Vermont
- 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.)
