The Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias) is the largest North American heron. It wades the shallows searching for small fish and reptiles.

John James Audubon said: “So much does the song of our Goldfinch resemble that of the European species, that whilst in France and England, I have frequently thought, and with pleasure thought, that they were the notes of our own bird which I heard.”

American Robin

Robins forage in open meadows and home lawns and gardens for worms, grubs, some insects, berries and a variety of other fruit. They run, halt and remain motionless while they watch for movement with their head twisted. Folklore is they listen for worms.

Yellow-bellied Sapsucker

Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers drill rows of holes in trees and eat the sap and insects attracted to the tree’s sap.

Ruby-throated Hummingbirds beat their wings 53 times a second! Attract hummingbirds with nectar feeders and watch them from your kitchen window.

Whip Poor Wills nest and sleep on the forest floor in daytime and catch flying insects at night often flying around farm animals to catch the insects that swarm around them.

Rose-breasted Grosbeak

The stunningly beautiful Rose-breasted Grosbeak’s nest, usually in thickets or small trees, is so thinly constructed that eggs often can be seen from below through the fine twigs of the nest

Screech Owls

Screech Owls are night hunters of small mammals and reptiles. They usually keep out of site during the day. At night they have a horrifying scream that can be best appreciated when you are alone.

Their beauty and their display of affection is why we love bluebirds. The male perpetually seeks the company of the female, courting her with his pretty love songs, feeding her insects and chasing rivals from their domain.

Barn Swallows

Barn Swallows dive at intruders in their barn yards, snap their beaks and pull away just before making contact, although they adjust to familiar neighbors.

The cliff swallow builds mud nests lined with grass, straw and feathers in colonies of sometimes fifty or several hundred on cliff, wall or beam faces, under bridges often above water or under eaves

Audubon Nighthawk

Nighthawks have long pointed aerodynamic wings for catching insects in the night high overhead while calling out their raspy screech

American Crow

The Crow is large, all black, omnivorous, with a loud caw, eats fruit, insects, and plants, scavanges meat, and generates numerous folklore tales.

White-breasted Nuthatches

 Sometimes, if White-breasted Nuthatches become accustomed enough to their hosts who provide seeds at backyard feeders, they may take seeds from their hands.

Brown Creeper

The Brown Creeper Builds nests by cramming twigs, fine bark strips, feathers, moss and spider cocoons behind the loose bark of dead tree trunks and in tree cavities.