Virginia Winter Birds: Roundup
January 28th, 2011

Time for the last few stragglers, and the final triplist.


The Carolina Wren is a common year-round wren in Virginia. It's a bolder species than the bashful Winter Wren, and often found close to human habitation. This one was in a neighbor's front yard.


Eastern Bluebird


Hermit Thrush in my parents' back yard. Each year (if I visit) I find a few of these guys wintering in the brushy woods behind the house. This visit, though, was the first time I'd ever heard a Hermit Thrush sing in winter! It was more disjointed than their summer song, and very soft, as if coming from afar--though the singer was actually about ten feet away from me.

Triplist:

American Black Duck
American Crow
American Goldfinch
American Robin
Black Vulture
Blue Jay
Brown Creeper
Brown Thrasher
Bufflehead
Canada Goose
Carolina Chickadee
Carolina Wren
Cedar Waxwing
Common Grackle
Dark-Eyed Junco
Double-Crested Cormorant
Downy Woodpecker
Eastern Bluebird
Eastern Phoebe
Eastern Towhee
European Starling
Golden-Crowned Kinglet
Great Blue Heron
Hairy Woodpecker
Hermit Thrush
House Finch
House Sparrow
Mallard
Mourning Dove
Northern Cardinal
Northern Flicker
Northern Mockingbird
Northern Shoveler
Osprey
Pileated Woodpecker
Red-Bellied Woodpecker
Red-Headed Woodpecker
Red-Shouldered Hawk
Ring-Billed Gull
Ring-Necked Duck
Rock Pigeon
Ruby-Crowned Kinglet
Song Sparrow
Tufted Titmouse
Turkey Vulture
White-Breasted Nuthatch
White-Throated Sparrow
Winter Wren
Yellow-Bellied Sapsucker
Yellow-Rumped Warbler

Total: 50

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