Birds

• Canada goose
• red-winged blackbird
• mourning dove
• American crow
• eastern bluebird (male and female)
• northern mockingbird
• American robin
• pine siskin
• white-breasted nuthatch
• tufted titmouse
• black-capped chickadee
• house sparrow
• house finch
• European starlings
• northern cardinal (male and female)
• tufted titmouse
• American goldfinch (male and female)
• dark-eyed junco
• eastern meadowlark
• brown-headed cowbird
• chipping sparrow
• field sparrow
• common grackle
• song sparrow
• killdeer
• wild turkey
• purple finch (male/female pair)
• northern flicker
• hairy/downy woodpecker (male/female pair)
• brown thrasher (male/female pair)
• wood duck (male/female pair)
• solitary sandpiper (pair)
• eastern kingbird (pair)
• Baltimore oriole
• osprey
• turkey vulture
• blue jay
• mallard
• green heron (pair)
• yellow warbler (pair)

Other Wildlife

• white-tailed deer (feeding)
• eastern cottontail (hopping)
• beaver (swimming)
• raccoon (foraging in snow)
• fox squirrel (standing in the road)
• groundhog (feeding)
• turtles (4, in the pond)
• bullfrog (heard)
• spring peepers (heard)
• dragonfly/damselfly (flying around edge of pond)
• tiger swallowtail butterfly (puddling near Douglas Falls)
• mourning cloak butterfly (flying near pond)
• red-eared slider (smallest church pond)
• opossum (near creek)

Notes

• 2nd: Thundersnow (8:14-8:20 p.m., 8:51 p.m., 9:05 p.m., 9:07 p.m.)
• 5th: First bluets blooming near farm pond
• 11th: First buttercups blooming near farm pond
• 11th: possible frog sighting
• 17th: Blackwater Falls visit: Lindy Point, Pendleton Overlook, steps to Falls
• 17th: Lots of dandelions, plus wild violets, purple deadnettle, and aster-like flowers in bloom
• 19th: Serviceberry trees beginning to bloom
• 22nd: Heard bullfrog, spring peepers calling in daytime
• 23rd: Trout lily blooming at base of sarvis tree
• 24th: Douglas Falls visit, Smallest Church (Our Lady of the Pines) visit
• 24th: Osprey at farm pond, 1st dragonfly/damselfly
• 25th: Mourning cloak butterfly
• 26th: Fleabane in bloom
• 28th: Severe Thunderstorm Warning, 6:00-6:45 p.m.
• 30th: Identified spotted wintergreen at Bill & Elsie's near the creek (near the mushrooms)