About 50 species so far, compared with the 210 species we saw during our 5 days in the Gambia. We’re not in the tropics anymore …

IMAGE	TIME/DATE	BIRD	WEATHER	HABITAT
	March 2017	Green-winged teal		swimming in pond
	March 2017	Ring-necked duck	cool and rainy	diving in pond
	December 2015	Otter		swimming in pond
	February 2016	Fisher (martes pennanti)		underbrush at edge of pond
	October	White throated sparrow
	October	Yellow bellied sapsucker		old apple tree
	October	Ruby crowned kinglet
	October 2015, July 2016	Bald eagle		in dead tree over the pond
	October	Cooper’s hawk		old apple trees, chasing squirrels
	October	Belted kingfisher		trees over pond
	October, passing through	myrtle warbler		stranded overnight in garage
	October, passing through	black-throated green warbler
	Every day!	Canada goose	You name it	on the grass, in the pond
		Little green heron		thickets by the pond
	Occasional visitor	Great blue heron		pond
	Every day	Phoebe		edge of woods
	3-13-15	Hooded merganzer		on the pond
	5-17-15	Pileated woodpecker		old apple stump
	5-29-15	snapping turtle		on the lawn
	6-2-15	Wood duck drake, hen and chicks		on the pond
	6-28-15	Blue-grey gnat catcher		apple trees
	6-28-15	Orchard oriole (hen and chicks)
		Baltimore oriole
		Ruby-throated hummingbird
		Peewee
		Kingbird
		Meadowlark		on fence by cow pasture
		Chipping sparrow
Every day		Common crow
		Purple grackle		Woods behind the pond
		Cowbird
		Barn swallow		Nesting under balcony, apple trees
		Chimney swift
		House finch		Nesting under front deck
		Goldfinch
	common in June	Eastern bluebird		trees on lawn
		Robin
		Yellow billed cuckoo		in wetland woods
		Brown thrasher
		Mockingbird
	Occasional in June	Indigo bunting		wetland woods
	Passing through in May	Sandpiper		By the pond
		Red shouldered hawk		Possible nest in wetland woods, attacked by crows
	08:30 August 6, 2015	Red-bellied woodpecker	Cool morning before hot day, increasing humidity	Sycamore in wetland woods
		Downy woodpecker
		Flicker
		Carolina chickadee
		Killdeer
		Red-winged blackbird
		Catbird
		Black vulture
		Turkey vulture
		Cardinal
		Black-capped chickadee
		Tufted titmouse
		Carolina wren
		Turkey
		Great-crested Flycatcher
		Purple finch
	July	Common egret	very hot	in the pond