New year’s day! For this blog and me, the first day of the year is time for the annual recap of birds seen on my land in Fort Valley, Virginia. Here are the previous iterations:

• 2012 (39 species)
• 2013 (51 species)
• 2014 (58 species)
• 2015 (65 species)
• 2016 (59 species)
• 2017 (56 species)
• 2018 (60 species)

This year’s list (biggest year yet!), in chronological order of first sighting:

1. Pileated woodpecker
2. Tufted titmouse
3. Red-tailed hawk
4. American goldfinch
5. White-breasted nuthatch
6. Red-bellied woodpecker
7. Mourning dove
8. Carolina wren
9. Yellow-bellied sapsucker
10. Chickadee
11. Dark-eyed junco
12. Downy woodpecker
13. Hermit thrush
14. Brown creeper
15. Raven
16. Turkey vulture
17. Golden-crowned kinglet
18. Purple finch
19. Pine siskin
20. Wild turkey
21. Eastern phoebe
22. American crow
23. Sharp-shinned hawk
24. Pine warbler
25. Eastern bluebird
26. American robin
27. Whippoorwill
28. Brown-headed cowbird
29. Flicker
30. Chipping sparrow
31. Northern cardinal
32. Harrier
33. Blue-headed vireo
34. Blue-gray gnatcatcher
35. Ruby-throated hummingbird
36. Red-eyed vireo
37. Canada geese
38. Broad-winged hawk
39. Yellow-rumped warbler
40. Ruby-crowned kinglet
41. Ovenbird
42. Bald eagle
43. Fish crow
44. Worm-eating warbler
45. Scarlet tanager
46. Barred owl
47. Black-throated green warbler
48. Great crested flycatcher
49. Yellow-billed cuckoo
50. Osprey
51. American redstart
52. Great blue heron
53. Spotted towhee
54. Wood thrush
55. Black and white warbler
56. Rose-breasted grosbeak
57. Black vulture
58. Brown thrasher
59. Eastern wood-pewee
60. Chimney swift
61. Great horned owl
62. Chestnut-sided warbler
63. Blue jay
64. White-throated sparrow
65. Winter wren
66. Swainson’s thrush
67. Sandhill cranes (!!!)