GRANDFATHER MOUNTAIN® What Birds You Can See, When & Where (Not the only times these birds are here, but the times when they are the easiest to identify. Locate them in the spring when they sing, in the fall when they flock.*) Typical Songbirds Spring - Profile Trail Spring to Fall - All Areas Wood Thrush American Robin Yellow-throated Vireo Eastern Bluebird Warbling Vireo Veery Philadelphia Vireo Blue Jay White-eyed Vireo Tufted Titmouse Brown Thrasher Spring & Summer - Profile Trail Gray Catbird Northern Mockingbird Blue-headed Vireo Cedar Waxwing Red-eyed Vireo Summer - Summer - Dan’l Boone Scout Trail Grandfather Trail Carolina Wren Hermit Thrush Golden-crowned Kinglet Black-capped Chickadee Fall - Profile Trail Winter Wren Brown Creeper Swainson’s Thrush Yellow-throated Vireo Warbling Vireo Philadelphia Vireo Winter - Grandfather Trail White-eyed Vireo Ruby-crowned Kinglet Year Round White-breasted Nuthatch (lower elv.) Carolina Chickadee (all over) Red-breasted Nuthatch (higher elv.) Tanagers/Blackbirds Sparrows Spring to Fall Spring - Profile Trail Song Sparrow Scarlet Tanager Winter - Museum Feeders Spring - In Park Fox Sparrow White-throated Sparrow Red-winged Blackbird Year Round - Higher Elv. Dark-eyed Junco Hummingbirds/Swifts/Swallows Flycatchers Summer- In Park Summer - Grandfather Trail Ruby-throated Hummingbird Least Flycatcher Chimney Swift Olive-sided Flycatcher Tree Swallow Northern Rough-winged Swallow Barn Swallow Spring - In Park Eastern Phoebe Finches & Buntings Spring-Summer - Grandfather Trail Year Round - In Park Pine Siskin Indigo Bunting Northern Cardinal Red Crossbill Eastern Towhee Rose-breasted Grosbeak Year Round-Lower Elv. House Finch Occasionally in Winter - Purple Finch Museum Feeders American Goldfinch White-winged Crossbill Evening Grosbeak Warblers Fall - Black Rock Trail Spring & Summer - Grandfather Trail Swainson’s Warbler Worm-eating Warbler Chestnut-sided Warbler Tennessee Warbler Magnolia Warbler Spring - Profile Trail Nashville Warbler Cape May Warbler Canada Warbler Bay-breasted Warbler Hooded Warbler Palm Warbler Louisiana Waterthrush Northern Parula Northern Waterthrush Yellow-rumped Warbler Blackburnian Warbler Spring - Ovenbird Dan’l Boone Scout Trail Black-throated Blue Warbler Black-throated Green Warbler Black & White Warbler Birds of Prey Hawks and Eagles Owls Fall Migration - Linville Peak Summer- Black Rock & Grandfather Trails Golden Eagle Bald Eagle Screech Owl Osprey Great-horned Owl Sharp-shinned Hawk Barred Owl Cooper’s Hawk Northern Saw-whet Owl Red-tailed Hawk Red-shouldered Hawk Spring- Profile Trail Northern Harrier Northern Goshawk Long-eared Owl Broadwinged Hawk Vultures Falcons Fall Migration - Summer - Linville Peak Grandfather Trail Turkey Vulture Peregrine Falcon Black Vulture Year Round - In Park & Along Roadsides Gallinaceous Corvidae Birds Family Wild Turkey American Crow Ruffed Grouse (lower elv.) Northern Bobwhite Common Raven (higher elv.) Medium-sized Land Birds Mourning Dove Rock Dove Belted Kingfisher Pileated Woodpecker Red-bellied Woodpecker Hairy Woodpecker Downy Woodpecker Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Common Flicker (Depart in Winter) Yellow-billed Cuckoo Black-billed Cuckoo Common Nighthawk * list compiled by Jesse Pope, Grandfather Mountain Naturalist.