Bird Watching: Do you keep a Backyard Bird List???, 1 by IrisLover79

IrisLover79 wrote:
Hi everybody,

Oh boy, lists! I've just been putting mine into my DG journals! =D I'm only going to put the birds that I'm completely positive about, so my list won't be quite as long as the others. But, I'm proud of it, so far. Flyovers = *

Here's my Backyard List
Canada Goose*
Mallard
Ring-billed Gull*
Turkey Vulture (just the other day)*
Red-tailed Hawk
American Kestrel
Rock Dove (Pigeon) - yesterday, it was all white
Mourning Dove
Common Flicker
Downy Woodpecker
Blue Jay
Common Crow
Swallow (finally IDed a Barn Swallow - may have other kinds, too)*
Purple Martin
Black-capped Chickadee
Brown Creeper
Gray Catbird
American Robin
Red-winged Blackbird
Common Grackle
Starling
Baltimore Oriole (saw for 1st time a few days ago!)
Cardinal
Rose-breasted Grosbeak
Purple Finch
House Finch
American Goldfinch
Dark-eyed Junco
House Sparrow
Brown-headed Cowbird

Birds seen in other places
Great Blue Heron
Ruddy Duck
Belted Kingfisher
Brown Pelican (Florida vacation)
Snowy Egret (ditto)
Mute Swan
Ruby-throated Hummingbird (West Virginia vacation)
Pilated Woodpecker
Red-bellied Woodpecker

So 30 in the backyard and 9 more in other places. Okay, 39 isn't bad. Ü The Red-tailed Hawks and Turkey Vulture really excited me since we live less than 10 miles from Chicago. Here's my best pic of a Red-tailed Hawk. I think it was a teenager learning to fly cause it crashed on my neighbor's roof and was scared of the little birds attacking it! It kept making sad sounds to another hawk that was far away.

~Kristy

edited - I had a double, oops!
edited again to add a bird ;)

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