Here’s our birding yard list (species seen in/from our yard) for the past year. You can compare it with 2012’s list here.

1. Canada geese
2. Goldfinch
3. Tufted titmouse
4. Dark-eyed junco
5. Mourning dove
6. Black-capped chickadee
7. White-breasted nuthatch
8. Downy woodpecker
9. Hairy woodpecker
10. Blue jay
11. Brown creeper
12. American crow
13. Red-bellied woodpecker
14. Pileated woodpecker
15. Red-shouldered hawk
16. Carolina wren
17. Turkey vulture
18. Eastern phoebe
19. Turkey
20. Purple finch
21. Red-tailed hawk
22. Northern flicker
23. Barred owl
24. American robin
25. Eastern bluebird
26. Song sparrow
27. Brown-headed cowbird
28. Yellow-rumped warbler
29. Eastern towhee
30. Whippoorwill
31. Chipping sparrow
32. Broad-winged hawk
33. Blue-gray gnatcatcher
34. Cardinal
35. Black vulture
36. Red-breasted nuthatch
37. Rose-breasted grosbeak
38. Ruby-throated hummingbird
39. Red-eyed vireo
40. Scarlet tanager
41. Yellow-billed cuckoo
42. Cedar waxwing
43. Chimney swift
44. Eastern kingbird
45. Ovenbird
46. Raven
47. Screech owl
48. Yellow-bellied sapsucker
49. Black-throated green warbler
50. Winter wren
51. Sharp-shinned hawk

More this year than last – here’s hoping for a similar increase in 2014!

Species we saw in 2012 that we missed in 2013:

1. Great blue heron
2. Indigo bunting
3. Great crested flycatcher
4. Louisiana warbler
5. Veery
6. Golden-crowned kinglet