I added a veery and a red-eyed vireo to our property list during this morning's bird count. I had mistaken the vireo for a Tennessee warbler, but luckily I was able to snap a very inept photo that allowed very adept bird Twitter to tell me I was full of crap and properly identify:
That brings the total number of species at our Michigan home to 54 since I started counting in 2014, or exactly one below the tally at our West Lafayette, Indiana home from 2008 to 2013. Here's hoping fall migration will help me surpass that number within the next several days. No, the Wilson's warbler I'm pretty sure I saw this afternoon but got away before I was 100% sure doesn't count.
Property List, East Lansing
- Red-winged blackbird
- Downy woodpecker
- American robin
- Black-capped chickadee
- American goldfinch
- Northern cardinal
- European starling
- Blue jay
- House sparrow
- Brown thrasher
- Red-tailed hawk
- Mourning dove
- Baltimore oriole
- Common grackle
- Gray catbird
- Tufted titmouse
- Chipping sparrow
- House wren
- Northern harrier
- Cooper's hawk
- Ruby-throated hummingbird
- Canada goose
- White-breasted nuthatch
- Brown-headed cowbird
- Eastern kingbird
- Red-bellied woodpecker
- Great blue heron
- Eastern wood-pewee
- Cedar waxwing
- Hairy woodpecker
- Northern flicker
- Yellow-rumped warbler
- Swainson's thrush
- Eastern bluebird
- Carolina wren
- Dark-eyed junco
- Song sparrow
- Brown creeper
- Purple finch
- Wild turkey
- Northern mockingbird
- Mallard
- Sandhill crane
- White-crowned sparrow
- Red-breasted nuthatch
- Pileated woodpecker
- House finch
- White-throated sparrow
- Nashville warbler
- Eastern phoebe
- Yellow-billed cuckoo
- Yellow warbler
- Veery
- Red-eyed vireo
*Note: I'm confident I've seen a red-eyed vireo before, but since I didn't have it marked in my book, this also represents a LIFE BIRD for me, and that calls for a very strong cocktail made with gin. Cheers!
nwb
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