Birds and Animals Weve Seen at our Home at Hunters Creek

Updated 5/29/2008

BIRDS Mourning doves Wood Thrush

American tree sparrows Northern Kingbird Yellow Warbler
Bald Eagle Northern Orioles
Barn swallows Nuthatches MAMMALS
Blue heron Great Horned Owls (heard Brown squirrels
Blue jays them in the middle of the night and Chipmunks
watched them in the trees behind
Bluebirds our house. Seen them fly at night Coyotes
Bob-o-links too) Deer
Brown thrashers Palm Warbler (9-11-05; Mice
Canadian geese fall plumage) Mink (dead on road)
Cardinals Pheasants Moles
Catbirds Red-bellied woodpeckers Opossums
(raising babies)
Cedar waxwings Redheaded woodpecker Rabbits
Chickadees (5/05) Fox Squirrels
Chipping sparrows Red-tailed hawks Red squirrels
Common Yellowthroat Red-Winged blackbirds Skunk
5-29-08 Robins Voles, Meadow
Coopers Hawk (saw two for sure Rosebreasted Grosbeak
fighting over a mourning dove)
Woodchucks
Cowbirds Rufus-sided Towhee
Downy woodpeckers (5/20/06) REPTILES/
Eastern Phoebe 7-10-09 Sandhill Cranes (8) AMPHIBIANS
Egret, Great White (7/20/06) Garter snakes
Flickers, Yellow shafted Sea gulls Green frogs
Flycatcher (unidentified) Sharpshinned Hawk (half the Bull frog (huge)
size of the Coopers swooping through
Gold finches the back and sitting for observation. Green tree frog
Grackles Able to tell the two apart by seeing both Hognose snake (road
within days of each other)
Green Heron (along Vreeland Song sparrows nearby)
while running)
Sora (water bird seen by swamp along Leopard frogs
House finches Vreeland while I was running) Milk snake
House sparrows Starlings Painted turtle
House wrens Tree swallows Snapping turtle
Hummingbirds Tufted titmouse Red-spotted Newt
Indigo Buntings (on our Turkey vultures
new land) Turkeys, Wild (in a flock in MISCELLANEOUS
Juncos winter 2008, walking across back field
Praying mantis
in spring 2009)
Killdeer White-capped sparrows Luna moth (6-28-09)
Mallard ducks White Egret
 Birds and Animals Weve Seen on our land in Mooreville, MI
(in addition to birds weve seen at our house)

BIRDS
Bald Eagles MAMMALS
Brown Creeper Deer
Indigo Bunting Raccoon
Redheaded Woodpecker (1
mile away)
Ring-necked Pheasant
Turkeys
Rosebreasted Groesbeak

Birds Weve Seen in Northern Michigan

Indian River and Mackinaw
(in addition to birds weve seen at home)

-Yellow Bellied Sapsucker -Wild Turkeys

-Scarlet Tanager (flying quieter and flits among low field
across road & sitting in tree brush)
every morning singing by our -Chipping Sparrows
lodge) ANIMALS
-Red-headed Woodpeckers
-Bald Eagle (circling over (4)
house) -Indigo Bunting (on Sturgeon Muscrat (in Sturgeon)
-Eastern Wood Pewee (2) River) Wood Turtle
(distinctive pee-wee call, no -Cedar Waxwings Small bats (caught in
eye ring, forked tail, wing bars.
Sitting in tree at Marian Peace -Bald Eagle Mackinaw)
Center east of Petoskey) -Northern Kingbird
-Nuthatch -Barn Swallows
-Chickadees -Osprey (catching fish)
-Tufted Titmouse -Belted Kingfisher
-Whippoorwills (heard in -Red-winged Blackbirds
Indian River) -Crows
-Vesper Sparrow (recognized -Ravens
by white tail feathers easily
noticed as he flitted through the -Turkey Vultures
field) -Ruffed Grouse (family of 5)
-Savannah Sparrow (looks
like Song, but no chest spot,
 Birds We Saw at our Old House on Platt Road in Milan
(in addition to the birds seen at our new house)

Snow Buntings (5) worst Brown Thrush

winter day Horned Owl (surrounded by
Green Heron (nested on our crows) Corn Snake
land)
Blue-spotted Salamander\
Indigo Buntings (5 at once)
Rufous Sided Towhee

Birds and Animals Seen in Sitka Alaska

2006

BIRDS

Common Ravens Other Creatures

Shorebirds in the Estuary: Chestnut-backed
Yellow Legs Chickadee Brown Bear (near us while
Western Sandpipers Brown Creeper walking)
Belted Kingfisher Winter Wrens Salmon
Blue Herons Ruby-crowned Kinglet Jelly Fish
Herring Gulls Townsend Warbler Orca Killer Whales
Wilsons Warbler Dolphins
In the Rainforest: Yellow Warbler Jelly Fish
Bald Eagles & Nest Dark-eyed Juncos
Red-breasted Sapsucker