Friday, January 16, 2015


This is the list so far of bird sightings that our members have submitted from Texas to Prince Edward Island, Canada:

2014-2015 Curbs & Cobblestones Garden Club Bird Sightings “Big Year” to date: [ September 2014 to January 2015

Member B- Northeast : Great Blue Heron, Mourning dove, white breasted nuthatches, blue jay, female and male northern cardinals, black capped chickadee, female purple finch, crow, grackle, tufted titmouse, male and female house sparrows, American tree sparrow, downy woodpecker, hairy woodpecker. Red-belied woodpecker, starling, brown creeper. A gaggle (8) Wild Turkeys,

Member P- Northeast : Red-tail hawk (soaring), rock pigeon, herring gull.

Member L/C- Northeast : humming birds, eastern bluebird

Member E- Southeast Atlantic :Turkey Vulture, Red Shouldered Hawk, Killdeer, Mourning Dove, Red-bellied Woodpecker, Hairy Woodpecker, Northern Flicker, Pileated Woodpecker, Eastern Phoebe, Blue Jay, American Crow, Carolina Chickadee, Tufted Titmouse, Carolina Wren, Ruby-Crowned Kinglet, Eastern Bluebird, Swainson’s Thrush, American Robin, Northern Mockingbird, Brown Thrasher, Cedar Waxwing, Yellow-Rumpled Warbler, Eastern Towhee, Northern Cardinal, Brown-Headed Cowbird, House Finch, American Goldfinch
Member B/P- Northeast : Gaggle of Canadian Geese, mallards, herring gull, Merlin Hawk

Member A/S- Canadian Providences: Great Blue Heron, chickadees, crows, herring gulls spotted yesterday, Canada geese and mallards earlier this month near Summerside, PEI, a morning dove and a bald eagle spotted yesterday near Crapaud PEI.

Saturday, January 10, 2015

A Couple More PEI Bird SIghtings

This week, on January 7, I saw a red-breasted nuthatch while walking down the driveway in Crapaud, PEI, Canada, and yesterday, January 9, a bald eagle was circling the trees in the backyard.  It snowed quite a bit yesterday and it's beautiful outside, though very cold.  Still, the day after a snow storm is always beautiful, even if we enjoy it from the inside.