Here are the birds observed at the Hermits’ Rest in April 2025. They were either identified by Merlin Bird ID or by sight. I was only at home through April 20 but still managed to see or hear 99 birds. There were days I identified more than fifty birds, and that’s with much of the month being so windy that it was hard to hear anything. There was even one new bird, which I was quite surprised about, the American Golden-plover. As usual, I wonder if it was a Merlin error.

Total birds: 99
- American Crow
- American Golden-plover
- American Goldfinch
- American Pipit
- American Robin
- Baltimore Oriole
- Barn Swallow
- Barred Owl
- Belted Kingfisher
- Bewick’s Wren
- Black Vulture
- Black-bellied Whistling Duck
- Black-chinned Hummingbird
- Blue Grosbeak
- Blue Jay
- Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
- Blue-winged Teal
- Broad-winged Hawk
- Brown-headed Cowbird
- Canada Goose
- Carolina Chickadee
- Carolina Wren
- Cattle Egret
- Cave Swallow
- Cedar Waxwing
- Clay-colored Sparrrow
- Cliff Swallow
- Common Grackle
- Common Nighthawk
- Common Yellowthroat
- Crested Caracara
- Diskcissel
- Downy Woodpecker
- Eastern Bluebird
- Eastern Kingbird
- Eastern Meadowlark
- Eastern Phoebe
- Eurasian Collared Dove
- European Starling
- Field Sparrow
- Gray Catbird
- Great Blue Heron
- Great Crested Flycatcher
- Great Egret
- Great Horned Owl
- Greater Roadrunner
- Greater Yellowlegs
- Great-tailed Grackle
- Green Heron
- Green-winged Teal
- Hermit Thrush
- Horned Lark
- House Finch
- House Sparrow
- House Wren
- Inca Dove
- Killdeer
- Lark Sparrow
- Lincoln’s Sparrow
- Little Blue Heron
- Loggerhead Shrike
- Mourning Dove
- Nashville Warbler
- Northern Cardinal
- Northern Harrier
- Northern Mockingbird
- Osprey
- Pectoral Sandpiper
- Pileated Woodpecker
- Pine Siskin
- Purple Martin
- Red-bellied Woodpecker
- Red-eyed vireo
- Red-shouldered Hawk
- Red-tailed Hawk
- Red-winged Blackbird
- Rock Pigeon
- Ruby-crowned Kinglet
- Ruby-throated Hummingbird
- Savannah Sparrow
- Scissor-tailed flycatcher
- Solitary Sandpiper
- Song Sparrow
- Spotted Sandpiper
- Sprague’s Pipit
- Summer Tanager
- Swainson’s Hawk
- Swamp Sparrow
- Tufted Titmouse
- Turkey Vulture
- Upland Sandpiper
- Vesper Sparrow
- White-crowned Sparrow
- White-eyed Vireo
- White-throated Sparrow
- White-winged Dove
- Wild Turkey
- Yellow-rumped Warbler
- Yellow-throated Warbler