Birds January 2026

Here are the birds observed at the Hermits’ Rest in January 2026. They were either identified by Merlin Bird ID or by sight.

Kestrel

Total Species: 113. There was just one new one, a Mountain Bluebird, who must have blown in with the big, very windy, and very cold front. There was one day with 66 species at once, and a few days with fewer than 20 thanks to the cold.

  1. American Coot
  2. American Crow
  3. American Goldfinch
  4. American Kestrel
  5. American Pipit
  6. American Robin
  7. American Wigeon
  8. Bald Eagle
  9. Barn Owl
  10. Barred Owl
  11. Belted Kingfisher
  12. Bewick’s Wren
  13. Black Phoebe
  14. Black Vulture
  15. Black-bellied Whistling Duck
  16. Black-chinned Hummingbird
  17. Blue Jay
  18. Blue-headed Vireo
  19. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
  20. Blue-winged Teal
  21. Brewer’s Blackbird
  22. Brown Creeper
  23. Brown Thrasher
  24. Brown-headed Cowbird
  25. Canada Goose
  26. Carolina Chickadee
  27. Carolina Wren
  28. Cedar Waxwing
  29. Chipping Sparrow
  30. Common Grackle
  31. Common Yellowthroat
  32. Crested Caracara
  33. Dark-eyed Junco
  34. Downy Woodpecker
  35. Eastern Bluebird
  36. Eastern Meadowlark
  37. Eastern Phoebe
  38. Eastern Screech Owl
  39. Eastern Towhee
  40. Eurasian Collared Dove
  41. European Starling
  42. Field Sparrow
  43. Fox Sparrow
  44. Golden-crowned Kinglet
  45. Great Blue Heron
  46. Great Egret
  47. Great Horned Owl
  48. Greater Yellowlegs
  49. Great-tailed Grackle
  50. Harris’s Sparrow
  51. Hermit Thrush
  52. Horned Lark
  53. House Finch
  54. House Sparrow
  55. House Wren
  56. Inca Dove
  57. Killdeer
  58. Ladder-backed Woodpecker
  59. Least Sandpiper
  60. Lesser Goldfinch
  61. Lincoln’s Sparrow
  62. Loggerhead Shrike
  63. Long-billed Dowitcher
  64. Mallard
  65. Marsh Wren
  66. Mountain Bluebird
  67. Mourning Dove
  68. Northern Cardinal
  69. Northen Flicker
  70. Northern Harrier
  71. Northern Mockingbird
  72. Orange-crowned Warbler
  73. Osprey
  74. Pied-billed Grebe
  75. Pileated Woodpecker
  76. Pine Siskin
  77. Purple Finch
  78. Pyrrhuloxia
  79. Red-bellied Woodpecker
  80. Red-breasted Nuthatch
  81. Red-headed Woodpecker
  82. Red-shouldered Hawk
  83. Red-tailed Hawk
  84. Red-winged Blackbird
  85. Ring-billed Gull
  86. Rock Pigeon
  87. Ruby-crowned Kinglet
  88. Rufuous Hummingbird
  89. Sandhill Crane
  90. Savannah Sparrow
  91. Say’s Phoebe
  92. Short-eared Owl
  93. Snow Goose
  94. Snowy Egret
  95. Song Sparrow
  96. Sora
  97. Spotted Towhee
  98. Swamp Sparrow
  99. Tufted Titmouse
  100. Turkey Vulture
  101. Vermillion Flycatcher
  102. Vesper Sparrow
  103. Western Meadowlark
  104. White-breasted Nuthatch
  105. White-crowned Sparrow
  106. White-throated Sparrow
  107. White-winged Dove
  108. Wild Turkey
  109. Wilson’s Snipe
  110. Winter Wren
  111. Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
  112. Yellow-rumped Warbler