2015 Year List

My local listserv says there are a whole bunch of new arrivals. So I better get down to the river and get my numbers up!

I wish I could go to the shore & do that. I worry about the hummingbirds; I wonder if there will be any food for them when they arrive. Still about 3 feet of snow on the ground here.

Grudgingly, I put this on here...

#61 Brown-headed Cowbird

Iris, don't forget, they eat lots of insects in the spring.

21 - Collared Dove

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Right, but no insects are around either. Have not seen our cowbird as yet, I am happy to say.

#62 Eastern Meadowlark

We already have the Western since they stayed the winter. This is really surreal, or something. We leave our yard hearing the sound of the Western and as we approach our closest neighbor to the east, we no longer hear the WEME, but instead hear the sound of the Easterns. Upon coming home our ears are filled with the delightful song of the Western Meadowlark. This happened last year too.

When we first started birding, both birds were in our pasture, but now it is like they have separated territories.

63. Hooded Merganser, 14 March
64. Wild Turkey
65. Green-winged Teal

Oops, one more... I thought we already had this bird for the year.
66. Ring-billed Gull

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22 - Cooper's Hawk
23- Red-Tailed Hawk
(sighted these hawks earlier in the year but didn't have them on the list)

24 - Red-winged Blackbird
25 - Common Grackle

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I will have to listen for the red wings. Rain today & horrid snow tomorrow.

26 - Kildeer

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22 turkey. A couple of them were at a corner in Essex MA & slowing down traffic.

23 red tailed hawk It was flying with nest building material--happy to see & I hope it was catching squirrels.

Hi everyone

Just joined from Suffolk, UK. Here is my 2015 list to date.
1 Tundra Bean-Goose
2 Pink-footed Goose
3 Greylag Goose
4 Canada Goose
5 Mute Swan
6 Whooper Swan
7 Egyptian Goose
8 Common Shelduck
9 Gadwall
10 Eurasian Wigeon
11 Mallard
12 Northern Shoveler
13 Northern Pintail
14 Eurasian/American Green-winged Teal
15 Common Pochard
16 Tufted Duck
17 Common Scoter
18 Common Goldeneye
19 Common Merganser
20 Red-breasted Merganser
21 Red-legged Partridge
22 Common Pheasant
23 Willow Ptarmigan
24 Little Grebe
25 Great Crested Grebe
26 Northern Fulmar
27 Great Cormorant
28 Grey Heron
29 Little Egret
30 Eurasian Marsh-Harrier
31 Northern Harrier
32 Eurasian Sparrowhawk
33 Red Kite
34 Common Buzzard
35 Water Rail
36 Common Moorhen
37 Eurasian Coot
38 Stone Curlew
39 Pied Avocet
40 Eurasian Oystercatcher
41 Grey Plover
42 European Golden-Plover
43 Northern Lapwing
44 Common Ringed Plover
45 Common Redshank
46 Eurasian Curlew
47 Black-tailed Godwit
48 Bar-tailed Godwit
49 Ruddy Turnstone
50 Red Knot
51 Ruff
52 Sanderling
53 Dunlin
54 Common Snipe
55 Black-headed Gull
56 Mew Gull
57 Herring Gull
58 Lesser Black-backed Gull
59 Great Black-backed Gull
60 Rock Dove
61 Stock Dove
62 Common Wood-Pigeon
63 Eurasian Collared-Dove
64 Barn Owl
65 Little Owl
66 Tawny Owl
67 Short-eared Owl
68 Great Spotted Woodpecker
69 Eurasian Green Woodpecker
70 Common Kestrel
71 Eurasian Jay
72 Common Magpie
73 Eurasian Jackdaw
74 Rook
75 Carrion Crow
76 Skylark
77 Woodlark
78 Sand Martin
79 Marsh Tit
80 Coal Tit
81 Great Tit
82 Blue Tit
83 Long-tailed Tit
84 Eurasian Nuthatch
85 Eurasian Treecreeper
86 Eurasian Wren
87 White-fronted Dipper
88 Goldcrest
89 Robin
90 Blackbird
91 Fieldfare
92 Redwing
93 Song Thrush
94 Mistle Thrush
95 Starling
96 Dunnock
97 Grey Wagtail
98 White/Pied Wagtail
99 Meadow Pipit
100 Rock Pipit
101 Reed Bunting
102 Chaffinch
103 Brambling
104 Bullfinch
105 Greenfinch
106 Siskin
107 Goldfinch
108 Linnet
109 House Sparrow
burhinus

Do you have a birding site near water?

24 catbird I didn't know that they liked suet. Not much else to eat in the area at the moment.

Impressive list, burhinus.

Thanks Margaret
I do live in one of the countries best areas, but I do not get out as much as I would like to.

67. Turkey Vulture

I was hoping to get more since we were in a different part of the state this weekend. Ah, well. But it does seem our Mr. Robin became more feisty while we were away. He refuses any bird to enter his little claimed spot.

27 - Purple Finch

68. Great Blue Heron

69. Greater Scaup, 28 March
70. Gadwall,
71. American Widgeon
72. Ruddy Duck
73. Northern Shoveler
74. Ross's Goose

And a sandpiper I need to identify. I think it is a Greater Yellowlegs since they come pretty early, but I could be wrong.

25 grackle hanging around the bird feeder.

28 Bufflehead
29 Common Goldeneye
30 Lesser Scaup
31 Canvasback
32 Ruddy Duck
33 Pied Billed Grebe

Migrating through? We only see the buffoheads when they migrate.

yep. big migration. tons of lesser scaup. I need to be more diligent about getting to the river to check the migrants. Now if I was really ambitious, I'd get to the Mississippi river. But that's 30+ minutes.

110 - Chiffchaff
111 - Green Sandpiper

These two species were added to my list whilst walking around a local reserve yesterday.
Market Weston Fen.
http://www.suffolkwildlifetrust.org/reserves/market-weston-fen

When in England some years ago I was able to go to the Norfolk Broads. The day with the boat trip was raining but stayed up top anyway.

75. Tree Swallow

This is thirteen days earlier than last year's first tree swallows.

76. Eastern Phoebe
77. Wood Duck
78. American Woodcock

Also saw my first bat! Made the mosquitoes worthwhile. Still have to get that sandpiper IDed. I haven't got the photos on the computer yet.

no insects flying here as yet, cold air off the ocean.

26 brown creeper It was working on the suet feeder & then climbed the trunk of the beech tree. I hope that it found more to eat.

All my photo of a sandpiper could be narrowed down to is Yellowlegs. It's early in the season, so there'll be more chances.

79. Vesper Sparrow

27 Snowy egret
28 Mallard duck The poor things are away from their native spots as they are looking for something to eat.

March:
33 Bald Eagle
34 Northern Harrier
35 Red-tailed Hawk
36 White-winged Dove
37 Northern Flicker
38 Black-billed Magpie
39 Yellow-rumped Warbler

This time last year I was at 65.

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112 Blackcap Local Fens, Suffolk
113 Bittern RSPB Minsmere
114 Hinderclay, Suffolk

29 pine siskin It decided to come to our tube feeder.

34 Tree Swallow

30 turkey vulture (2)

80. Ruby-crowned Kinglet

Wish I could count Wood Duck again, we had a pair in our yard for about an hour. The female was interested in our gutter for some reason. Our pet duck was concerned about the whole situation. As soon as I went out, the pair flew away.