Bird Watching: Yard Bird List?, 1 by SusanLouise

SusanLouise wrote:
Hello Tiger,

A great thread you started! Well, to give everyone a bit of background, we didn't start becoming interested in birding til late summer of 2007 when we saw our 1st RT Hummingbird ever (in our lifetimes...that is). We had a female try and nectar on our porch railing Petunias and we were hooked ever since. It wasn't until 2008 we started to develop our gardens in the backyard and plant a few bushes in the front yard.

By 2009 our backyard became certified by the NWF. So from Spring of 2008-now...only 1 month into 2011, not even 3 years, more like 2+, here is our list of our backyard visitors...56 so far...not too shabby :)

1) Alder/Willow Flycatcher - "Traill's
2) American Crow
3) American Tree Sparrow
4) American Goldfinch
5) American Robin
6) Baltimore Oriole
7) Blue Jay
8) Brown Headed Cowbird
9) Brown Thrasher
10) Cedar Waxwing
11) Chipping Sparrow
12) Clay Colored Sparrow
13) Common Grackle
14) Common Yellowthroat Warbler
15) Cooper's Hawk
16) Dark Eyed Junco
17) Downy Woodpecker
18) Eastern Kingbird
19) Eastern Phoebe
20) Eastern Wood Pewee
21) European Starling
22) Field Sparrow
23) First Fall Least Flycatcher
24) Gray Catbird
25) Hairy Woodpecker
26) Harris's Sparrow
27) House Finch
28) House Sparrow
29) House Wren
30) Lincoln Sparrow
31) Marsh Wren
32) Mourning Dove
33) Nashville Warbler
34) Northern Cardinal
35) Northern Goshawk
36) Northern Mockingbird
37) Orange Crowned Warbler
38) Orchard Oriole
39) Oregon Junco
40) Pine Siskin
41) Red Tailed Hawk
42) Red Winged Blackbird
43) Ruby Crowned Kinglet
44) Ruby Throated Hummingbird
45) Rufous Hummingbird
46) Sharp Shinned Hawk
47) Slate Junco
48) Song Sparrow
49) Spotted Towhee
50) Vesper Sparrow
51) White Crowned Sparrow
52) White Throated Sparrow
53) Wilson's Warbler
54) Winter Wren
55) Yellow Rumped Warbler
56) Yellow Shafted Northern Flicker


Here's 3 pics of "before" of what our backyard looked like just before we started building our gardens Spring of 2008...we even got rid of the chain link fence that was here when we moved here...



This message was edited Feb 5, 2011 12:35 PM