I have 34 birds so far this Sunday morning. Clear and in the fifties seems to be good early morning sound bird weather.
Carolina wren, Red-eyed vireo, Wood thrush, Eastern towhee, Northern Cardinal, American goldfinch, Hooded warbler, American redstart, American robin, Black-and-white warbler, Canada goose, Pileated woodpecker, Hermit thrush, Veery, Tufted titmouse, Swainson’s thrush, American crow, Carolina chickadee, Mourning dove, Red- bellied woodpecker, Chimney swift, Blue-headed vireo, Cerulean warbler, American brown creeper, Downy woodpecker, Eastern warbling vireo, Red shouldered hawk, Common grackle, Blue jay, Swainson’s warbler, White-breasted nuthatch, Scarlet tanager, Chestnut-sided warbler, Northern parula.
The Eastern warbling vireo is a first-timer for me here. The Cerulean warbler and the Chestnut-sided warbler have warbled here a couple of other times this spring, but they are rare sounders in our yard.
Mostly in Black Mountain we get the American crow, but occasionally there is a fish crow. The fish crow call is quite different from the American one. I think it sounds like a cross between a regular crow and a duck. I have seen the fish crow team with the American crow in chasing off a hawk.
The Wrek o’Wrens that take their abode here abouts. I get maybe 20-25 different species til the Wrek o’Wrens show up.
I think their flitting around, fussing and noise making alarm other birds. The wrens come, the wrens go. So everyone gets a chance at the feeders.
My crow population are quite regular visitors. Of course they make the biggest cackle and cacophony. I know they’re mine because it’s an old residing murder. They, or most do, have a red feather on one wing. The Fish crow buzz me everyday with their hoarse caw. Smaller and faster than the American. Buzz-buy is their forte.
I got a new one this weekend: fish crows! According to Merlin they’re common in the southeastern US, but this is the first time I’ve noticed them. They’re very different from the American crows I’m used to seeing.
In my neighborhood: Blue Jays, Red-bellied Woodpeckers (both vocalizations and pecking calls), and Nan Day parakeets. Plus a bunch of song birds I can’t ID.
I live in a suburb northwest of Philly. Is there a particular species of woodpecker we’d expect to hear (haven’t seen one yet, but they make themselves known every morning)?
We’ve the old familars around here in central NC. Cardinals, nuthatches, chickadees, et.al. and a number of woodpeckers. The wrens have already raised a family on our back porch. We saw them fledge last week. One of the (many resident) wren’s calls this year sounds so much like "security, security, security!" Which i suppose is apropos, in some circumstances. I saw my first catbird in this neighborhood a couple of weeks ago. She/he had come for a drink.
Merlin told me that I had Parulas, Flycatchers, and Vireos in the yard on 24 April. I never saw them, though.
Those darn bluebirds have just fledged a first round of baby-blues, and I saw a bluebird eyeballing the same nesting box as I left the house this morning. Perhaps papa blue will sire a second brood. We’ll be thankful for anything that will keep the bluebirds occupied enough to keep them away from my windows and car mirrors. Of course, having a new blue family around will only exacerbate this behavior. They’ve been relentless this year, so much so that I tie plastic grocery bags to our sideview mirrors.
Robin, red-winged blackbird, Canada goose, mourning dove, wild turkey, pileated woodpecker, chickadee, white-throated sparrow, crow, mallard duck, turkey vulture, and lots of sparrows (I’ve never been good at IDing them).
I live in the American South too and we definitely have fish crows, but my first year living down here I thought I had both a group of fish crows and a group of American crows in my neighborhood but it turned out that Merlin was confusing the baby American crow noises as fish crows.
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