What birds do you most frequently see?

[astorian]

In Austin Texas, the most abundant birds have to be grackles and mourning doves.

Also loads of English sparrows, starlings, cardinals, pigeons, blue jays, mockingbirds, black buzzards.

In my immediate neighborhood, we also see a fair number of red headed woodpeckers, chickadees, hummingbirds and red tailed hawks.

[kiz]

Boston area. It depends on the season!

Year Round: Robins, crows, pigeons, sparrows, cardinals, blue jays, gulls (always overhead – the beach is a mile from my house), starlings…although the last couple of years there haven’t been as many compared to previous years. I think they and the robins take turns as to who’s going to have the bigger flocks. We also have a neighborhood red tail hawk, several Downy woodpeckers, and the occasional flicker.

Summer: Warblers, catbirds, brown-headed cowbirds, and nuthatches like to hang out down at the wooded area of our park. Occasional cedar waxwings. Mockingbirds and grackles all over the place. A neighbor has screech owls living in their backyard tree. At work there are both barn and tree swallows who nest in the overhang at the back of the building. My MIL has orioles visiting her backyard occasionally. The nearby wetlands have Canada geese, mallards, snowy egrets, black-crowned night herons, and the occasional great blue heron. When the terns show up at the beach you know summer’s here.

Winter: When the juncos arrive you know winter isn’t far behind. Down at the beach there are ruddy turnstones, brant, and occasionally mergansers. None of them mingle with the gulls.
I was a member of the Audubon Society for a number of years and used to do the annual bird count with a couple of friends

[MrDibble]

@Slow_Moving_Vehicle

I should have asked y’all to give your locales when you pos

Cape Town, South Africa.

I forgot to mention the penguins (OK, I don’t see those very frequently outside summer, but in beach season I see them most every weekend)

[EmilyG]

American crows, pigeons, cardinals, black-capped chickadees, goldfinches, and house sparrows year-round.

Ring-billed gulls, starlings, robins, song sparrows, in the spring/summer.

Dark-eyed juncos in the winter/spring/fall.

[lieu]

S. Texas; Mockingbirds, cardinals, robins, grackels, Carolina wrens, starlings, turkey vultures, mourning dove, blue jays and various ducks.

Last week while floating down the Snake R. in Jackson Hole I saw several groups or harlequin ducks and hooded mergansers. Beautiful birds.

[Siam_Sam]

@Siam_Sam

Pigeons, of course.

There are a lot of mynahs in the neighborhood, and some crows. Doves are numerous. Some tiny little green hummingbird types. Swifts, and some little chirpy guys.

@Siam_Sam

There’s also a type of songbird in the area. Pretty. Dunno what it’s called. Small body with a disproportionately long, thin tail. Sort of gun-metal blue.

Oh, and occasionally a hornbill shows up in the neighborhood.

[control-z]

Virginia. Most of what I see is robins, sparrows, chickadees, buzzards, crows, and an occasional hawk, eagle, or Canada goose.

[gigi]

@elfkin477

Southern New Hampshire: black-capped chickadees, tufted titmice, blue jays, downy woodpeckers, cardinals, and white-breasted nuthatches. Sometimes we see other types of woodpeckers, brown creepers, robins, and mourning doves too.

In the winter we’ll see black-eyed juncos, and all summer there are hummingbirds here. For the first time this spring we had a huge amount of goldfinches and purple finches, but they’re gone for now.

I forgot to mention the black-eyed juncos during the winter here too. And occasionally we’ll get birds on their way through to somewhere else, like a few kinds of sparrows. And some kind of grosbeak maybe once!

The only time I’ve seen a hummingbird in our yard, despite trying to attract them, was during Hurricane Irene; a bedraggled guy hid up under the porch roof for a short while. My friend gets many of them hanging around her feeders.