Here are the birds observed at the Hermits’ Rest in November 2024. I was gone a lot, first in South Carolina and then camping at the end of the month. But, these are the birds who showed up. There were only two new ones, both spotted! A Spotted Towhee (edge of its range) and a Spotted Sandpiper, perhaps migrating.
All the winter songbirds are here now, and we are enjoying the White-throated Sparrows, Ruby-crowned Kinglets, and Goldfinches.
Total Birds: 77 (down 20 now that the summer to winter transition is over)
- American Crow
- American Goldfinch
- American Kestrel
- American Pipit
- American Robin
- Barred Owl
- Belted Kingfisher
- Bewick’s Wren
- Black Vulture
- Black-bellied Whistling Duck
- Blue-winged Teal
- Blue Jay
- Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
- Brewer’s Blackbird
- Brown-headed Cowbird
- Carolina Chickadee
- Carolina Wren
- Cave Swallow
- Cedar Waxwing
- Chipping Sparrow
- Common Grackle
- Crested Caracara
- Dark-eyed Junco
- Downy Woodpecker
- Eastern Bluebird
- Eastern Meadowlark
- Eastern Phoebe
- Eastern Towhee
- Eurasian Collared Dove
- European Starling
- Field Sparrow
- Great Blue Heron
- Great Egret
- Great Horned Owl
- Greater Yellowlegs
- Harris’s Sparrow
- Hermit Thrush
- House Finch
- House Sparrow
- House Wren
- Killdeer
- Lark Sparrow
- Least Sandpiper
- Loggerhead Shrike
- Mallard
- Marsh Wren
- Mourning Dove
- Northen Flicker
- Northern Cardinal
- Northern Harrier
- Northern Mockingbird
- Orange-crowned Warbler
- Pregrine Falcon
- Pine Siskin
- Purple Finch
- Red-bellied Woodpecker
- Red-shouldered Hawk
- Red-tailed Hawk
- Red-winged Blackbird
- Rock Pigeon
- Ruby-crowned Kinglet
- Sandhill Crane
- Savannah Sparrow
- Song Sparrow
- Spotted Towhee
- Spotted Sandpiper
- Swamp Sparrow
- Tufted Titmouse
- Turkey Vulture
- Vesper Sparrow
- Western Meadowlark
- White-breasted Nuthatch
- White-crowned Sparrow
- White-throated Sparrow
- Winter Wren
- Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
- Yellow-rumped Warbler
The Hermits' Rest 