January 2nd, 2018

Each year I keep a list of birds seen at Laurel Creek over the calendar year. I usually have a goal for 100 species. Here is my 2017 list:

1. Northern Cardinal
2. Black-capped Chickadee
3. American Crow
4. White-breasted Nuthatch
5. Fox Sparrow
6. Red-bellied Woodpecker
7. Dark-eyed Junco
8. Mourning Dove
9. European Starling
10. Tree Sparrow
11. Canada Goose
12. Tundra Swan
13. Killdeer
14. Red-winged Blackbird
15. Red-tailed Hawk
16. Hairy Woodpecker
17. Mallard
18. American Goldfinch
19. American Robin
20. Blue Jay
21. Downy Woodpecker
22. House Finch
23. Ring-billed Gull
24. Pileated Woodpecker
25. Phoebe
26. Ring-necked Duck
27. Green-winged Teal
28. Northern Shoveler
29. Brown Creeper
30. Turkey Vulture
31. Song Sparrow
32. Swamp Sparrow
33. Northern Pintail
34. American Widgeon
35. Double-crested Cormorant
36. Redhead
37. Bufflehead
38. Sharp-shinned Hawk
39. Wood Duck
40. Northern Flicker
41. Osprey
42. Hooded Merganser
43. Common Goldeneye
44. American Coot
45. Pied-billed Grebe
46. Tree Swallow
47. White-throated Sparrow
48. House Wren
49. Sandhill Crane
50. Chipping Sparrow
51. Herring Gull
52. Broad-winged Hawk
53. Brown Thrasher
54. Yellow Warbler
55. Great Blue Heron
56. Ruby-crowned Kinglet
57. Palm Warbler
58. Yellow-rumped Warbler
59. Blue-grey gnatcatcher
60. Black-and-white warbler
61. Black-throated Green warbler
62. Warbling Vireo
63. Baltimore Oriole
64. Common Yellowthroat
65. White-crowned Sparrow
66. Common Grackle
67. Gray Catbird
68. Olive-sided Flycatcher
69. Belted Kingfisher
70. Brown-headed Cowbird
71. Norther rough-winged Swallow
72. Red-eyed Vireo
73. Least Flycatcher
74. Alder Flycatcher
75. Great-crested Flycatcher
76. Eastern Wood Peewee
77. Wild Turkey
78. Barn Swallow
79. Indigo Bunting
80. Willow Flycatcher
81. Cedar Waxwing
82. American Redstart
83. Chimney Swift
84. Great Egret
85. Bald Eagle
86. Green Heron
87. Golden-crowned Kinglet
88. Pine Siskin
89. Coopers Hawk