Birding Life List for 2009...

I've photographed about 78 different birds over the spring/summer/fall of 2009. One of my favorite photos is of the Tufted Titmouse, which I took at Ojibway Park in West Windsor.

Loons Grebes Cormorants
1 Pied-billed Grebe
2 Double-crested Cormorant

Ibises Herons, Cranes and Bitterns
3 Great Egret
4 Great Blue Heron
5 Green-backed Heron* ~
6 Black-crowned Night Heron

Swans, Geese and Ducks
7 Mute Swan*
8 Canada Goose*
9 Mallard* -
10 American Black Duck
11 Wood Duck*
12 Lesser Scaup
13 Bufflehead
14 Hooded Merganser


Vultures,Hawks and Eagles Falcons
15 Turkey Vulture `
16 Osprey
17 Bald Eagle `
18 Northern Harrier*
19 Sharp-shinned Hawk
20 Cooper's Hawk
21 Red-tailed Hawk
22 American Kestrel
23 Peregrine Falcon

Plovers and Sandpipers

24 Semipalmated Plover
25 Killdeer*
26 Least Sandpiper
27 Ruddy Turnstone
Solitary Sandpiper (not sure)

Gulls and Terns
28 Caspian Tern
29 Common Tern (I'll be honest, I'm still working on gulls and tern id's)
30 Ring-billed

Doves and Pigeons
31 Rock Dove
32 Mourning Dove*

Owls
33 Eastern Screech Owl*

Swifts, and Hummingbirds Kingfishers
34 Ruby-throated Hummingbird
35 Belted Kingfisher*


Woodpeckers
36 Red-bellied woodpecker
37 Yellow-bellied sapsucker
38 Downy Woodpecker*
39 Hairy Woodpecker
40 Northern Flicker*

Flycatchers
41 Eastern Phoebe

Larks, and Swallows
42 Cliff Swallow
43 Barn Swallow*
44 Tree Swallow*

Jays, and Crows
45 Blue Jay
46 American Crow

Titmice, Nuthatches And Creepers
47 Black-capped Chickadee `
48 White-breasted Nuthatch
49 Brown Creeper
50 Tufted Titmouse

Wrens Kinglets, and Gnatcatchers
51 Golden-crowned Kinglet
52 Ruby-crowned Kinglet
53 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
54 House Wren


Thrushes
55 Veery
56 American Robin*
57 Wood Thrush

Waxwings
58 Cedar Waxwing*


Vireos Warblers

59 Blue-headed Vireo
60 Yellow Warbler*
61 Blackburnian Warbler
62 Black-and-white Warbler
63 American Redstart
64 Northern Waterthrush
65 Yellow-rumped Warbler
66 Black-throated Green Warbler

Grosbeaks, Finches Sparrows and Buntings
67 Northern Cardinal
68 Rose-breasted Grosbeak
69 Indigo Bunting
70 American Goldfinch
71 Dark-eyed Junco
72 House Finch*
73 American Tree Sparrow
74 Swamp Sparrow*
75 White-Throated Sparrow
76 White-crowned Sparrow
77 Lapland Longspur

Blackbirds, and Orioles Tanagers
78 Baltimore Oriole
79 Common Grackle*
80 Brown-headed Cowbird
81 Red-winged Blackbird*


In 2010, I plan on doing weekly trips to habitat hotspots to grow my life list.
Two major areas I can build on are Warblers & Shorebirds (bitterns etc...). I plan on seeing a pileated and red-headed woodpecker this summer as well (Rondeau?) .