Birding 2018

12/2/18, home:
Red-breasted nuthatches! Tiny, fluttery, fierce!

8/9/18, home:
3 Chipping Sparrow chicks in the driveway - so tiny, fluffy, cute!

7/31/18, south of Akron, Ohio:
Passed a Great Blue Heron rookery and saw 2 flying adults.

7/24/18-7/30/18, Millboro Springs, VA:
Carolina Wrens, Black and White Warbler, Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, Indigo Buntings, Black-billed Cuckoos and Screech Owl (heard), phoebes, cardinals, robins, turkey vultures, titmice, chickadees, mourning doves, crows.

7/22/18-7/23/18, Peaks of Otter, VA:
Catbirds, Red-winged Blackbirds, Carolina Wrens all around the Lodge!

6/21/18,  Blandford Nature Center: 
Bluebird
Catbirds

5/20/18, home, Dimondale, traveling between:
2 Chipping Sparrows, 2 Sandhill Cranes, 2 Great Blue Herons flying

5/17/18, home:
Amy saw the female Rose-breasted Grosbeak again a couple of times

5/15/18, Blandford Nature Center: 
Bluebird

5/8/18, home:
female Rose-breasted Grosbeak

5/7/18,  Blandford Nature Center:
Catbird (heard call)
White-throated Sparrows (heard call)
Hermit Thrush

5/5/18,  Blandford Nature Center:
White-throated Sparrows

5/2/18, Blandford Nature Center:
Wren (House, Winter, or Sedge?)

Home:
Hermit Thrush
Rose-breasted Grosbeak

4/20/18
Phoebes are back.

mid-March 2018
Turkey vultures are back.

3/4/18
Heard a Sandhill Crane although I couldn't see it!

3/1/18 spring birds returning:
Red-winged Blackbirds
Robins
European Starlings