2012 COMPOSITE LIST OF BIRD SIGHTINGS AT Bluebird Gap Farm A list of cumulative “firsts” for the year by all the birders! Currently we have 0 of 160 possible species. Last updated with sightings on January 01, 2012 Check the list below to see if your sighting is a first. Species Date Reporter Location In Park (i.e. trail, structure, etc) Swans, Geese, Ducks (23) Canada Goose Tundra Swan (R) Black-bellied Whistling Ducks (08) Wood Duck Gadwall American Wigeon American Black Duck (R) Mallard Blue-winged Teal Northern Shoveler Northern Pintail (R) Green-winged Teal Canvasback (R) Redhead Lesser Scaup Greater Scaup Ring-necked Duck Muscovy Duck (09) Bufflehead Hooded Merganser Common Merganser (R) Red-breasted Merganser Ruddy Duck (R) Turkeys, & Quail (1) Northern Bobwhite (R) Loons & Grebes (3) Common Loon (R) Pied-billed Grebe Horned Grebe (R) Pelicans, Cormorants, Frigatebirds (1) Double-crested Cormorant Bitterns, Herons, Egrets (9) Glossy Ibis (09) Least Bittern Great Blue Heron Great Egret Snowy Egret Cattle Egret Green Heron Black-crowned Night-Heron Yellow-crowned Night- Heron (R) Vultures (2) Black Vulture Turkey Vulture Hawks, Eagles (8) Osprey Bald Eagle Sharp-shinned Hawk Cooper’s Hawk Red-shouldered Hawk Red-tailed Hawk American Kestrel Peregrine Falcon (VR) Coots (1) American Coot Plovers (1) Killdeer Sandpipers & Phalaropes (6) Least Sandpiper (08) Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Solitary Sandpiper Spotted Sandpiper Wilson’s Snipe Gulls & Terns (11) Laughing Gull Least Tern Bonaparte’s Gull Ring-billed Gull Herring Gull Great Black-backed Gull Royal Tern (09) Common Tern Forster’s Tern Caspian Tern (09) Black Skimmer (UC) Pigeons & Doves (2) Rock Pigeon Mourning Dove Cuckoos (1) Yellow-billed Cuckoo Owls (3) Eastern Screech-Owl Great Horned Owl Barred Owl Goatsuckers (2) Chuck-will’s-widow Whip-poor-will (R) Swifts, Hummingbirds, & Kingfishers (3) Chimney Swift Ruby-throated Hummingbird Belted Kingfisher Woodpeckers (6) Red-bellied Woodpecker Yellow-bellied Sapsucker (UC) Downy Woodpecker Hairy Woodpecker (UC) Northern Flicker Pileated Woodpecker Tyrant Flycatchers (5) Eastern Wood-Pewee Acadian Flycatcher (UC) Eastern Phoebe Great Crested Flycatcher Eastern Kingbird Vireos (3) Philadelphia Vireo (09) White-eyed Vireo Red-eyed Vireo Jays & Crows (4) Blue Jay American Crow Fish Crow Common Raven (UC) Martins & Swallows (5) Purple Martin Tree Swallow N Rough-winged Swallow Bank Swallow (R) Barn Swallow Chickadees & Titmice (2) Carolina Chickadee Tufted Titmouse Nuthatches & Creepers (3) Red-breasted Nuthatch White-breasted Nuthatch Brown Creeper Wrens (3) Carolina Wren House Wren Winter Wren Gnatcatchers & Kinglets (3) Golden-crowned Kinglet Ruby-crowned Kinglet Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Thrushes (4) Eastern Bluebird Hermit Thrush Wood Thrush American Robin Catbirds, Mockingbirds, Thrashers & Starlings (4) Gray Catbird Northern Mockingbird Brown Thrasher European Starling Waxwings (1) Cedar Waxwing Wood Warblers (18) Northern Waterthrush (08) Northern Parula Yellow Warbler Black-throated Blue Warbler Yellow-rumped Warbler Black-throated Gray Warbler Black-throated Green Warbler Yellow-throated Warbler Pine Warbler Prairie Warbler Palm Warbler Blackpoll Warbler Hooded Warbler Black-and-white Warbler American Redstart Ovenbird Yellow-breasted Chat Common Yellowthroat Tanagers (2) Scarlet Tanager (R) Summer Tanager Sparrows, Cardinals, Grosbeaks & Dickcissels (12) Eastern Towhee Chipping Sparrow Field Sparrow Fox Sparrow Song Sparrow Swamp Sparrow White-throated Sparrow Dark-eyed Junco Northern Cardinal Rose-breasted Grosbeak Blue Grosbeak Indigo Bunting Blackbirds, Meadowlarks & Orioles (5) Red-winged Blackbird Common Grackle Brown-headed Cowbird Baltimore Oriole Orchard Oriole Finches (2) House Finch American Goldfinch Old World Sparrows (1) House Sparrow Key: R Rare (10) New to the park in 2010 VR Very Rare (09) New to the park in 2009 UC Uncommon (08) New to the park in 2008 .