My Yard List

Although my blog continues to be dreadfully behind the times, I am, in fact, in the US once more, mostly residing in Arlington, Virginia as I attend graduate school at Georgetown University. Although my apartment is in a soulless barracks complex without much in the way of bird habitat around, I've still gotten lucky in terms of seeing a few decent birds. Since I'm mostly relegated to boring American birds now, I've also hopped on the boring-est of birding traditions: keeping a back yard list (in this case birds seen within a block or so of my apartment). I'm keeping that list here for other birders with better back yards to laugh at and use to feel better about themselves. 

Birds seen in Buckingham, Arlington:

(In rough order of appearance, ABA lifers for me are listed in bold)

2018:

1. Chimney Swift

2. House Sparrow

3. Fish Crow

4. Black Vulture

5. American Crow

6. Carolina Chickadee

7. Common Grackle

8. Mourning Dove

9. Common Nighthawk

Common Nighthawk

10. Red-shouldered Hawk

11. Cooper's Hawk

Cooper's Hawk

12. Rock Dove (Feral Pigeon)

13. Red-bellied Woodpecker

14. Blue Jay

15. White-breasted Nuthatch

16. American Robin

17. Northern Mockingbird

18. Common Starling

19. Northern Cardinal

20. Canada Goose

21. Turkey Vulture

22. Carolina Wren

23. American Goldfinch

24. Dark-eyed Junco

25. Sharp-shinned Hawk

26. Downy Woodpecker

27. Tufted Titmouse

28. Ruby-crowned Kinglet

29. Ring-billed Gull

30. Red-breasted Nuthatch

31. House Finch

32. White-throated Sparrow

2019:

33. Great Blue Heron
34. Song Sparrow
35. Red-tailed Hawk
36. Northern Flicker
37. Eastern Towhee
38. Myrtle Warbler
39. Grey Catbird
40. Yellow Warbler
41. Black-and-white Warbler
42. Red-eyed Vireo
43. Common Yellowthroat
44. American Redstart
45. Northern Parula
46. Swainson's Thrush