Birds December 2024

Here are the birds observed at the Hermits’ Rest in December 2024. I was gone camping elsewhere in Texas twice. But, these are the birds who showed up. There were four new birds at this location: Blue-headed Vireo, Boat-tailed Grackle, Brown Creeper, and Gadwall (which I’d seen here before, but a long time ago)

All the winter songbirds remain, and we are enjoying the White-throated Sparrows, Ruby-crowned Kinglets, and Goldfinches. Owls have been quite vociferous this month, too.v

Great Horned Owl. Photo by Hoover Tung on Pexels.com

Total Birds: 84, which is a good winter total

  1. American Crow
  2. American Goldfinch
  3. American Kestrel
  4. American Pipit
  5. American Robin
  6. Barred Owl
  7. Belted Kingfisher
  8. Bewick’s Wren
  9. Black Vulture
  10. Blue Jay
  11. Blue-headed Vireo
  12. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
  13. Boat-tailed Grackle
  14. Brewer’s Blackbird
  15. Brown Creeper
  16. Brown-headed Cowbird
  17. Canada Goose
  18. Carolina Chickadee
  19. Carolina Wren
  20. Cedar Waxwing
  21. Chipping Sparrow
  22. Common Grackle
  23. Common Yellowthroat
  24. Crested Caracara
  25. Dark-eyed Junco
  26. Downy Woodpecker
  27. Eastern Bluebird
  28. Eastern Meadowlark
  29. Eastern Phoebe
  30. Eurasian Collared Dove
  31. European Starling
  32. Field Sparrow
  33. Fox Sparrow
  34. Gadwall
  35. Golden-crowned Kinglet
  36. Great Blue Heron
  37. Great Egret
  38. Great Horned Owl
  39. Greater Yellowlegs
  40. Harris’s Sparrow
  41. Hermit Thrush
  42. House Finch
  43. House Sparrow
  44. House Wren
  45. Killdeer
  46. Ladder-backed Woodpecker
  47. Least Sandpiper
  48. Lincoln’s Sparrow
  49. Loggerhead Shrike
  50. Mallard
  51. Merlin
  52. Mourning Dove
  53. Northen Flicker
  54. Northern Cardinal
  55. Northern Harrier
  56. Northern Mockingbird
  57. Orange-crowned Warbler
  58. Osprey
  59. Pileated Woodpecker
  60. Pine Siskin
  61. Red-bellied Woodpecker
  62. Red-headed Woodpecker
  63. Red-shouldered Hawk
  64. Red-tailed Hawk
  65. Red-winged Blackbird
  66. Rock Pigeon
  67. Ruby-crowned Kinglet
  68. Ruby-throated Hummingbird
  69. Sandhill Crane
  70. Savannah Sparrow
  71. Short-eared Owl
  72. Song Sparrow
  73. Spotted Towhee
  74. Swamp Sparrow
  75. Tufted Titmouse
  76. Turkey Vulture
  77. Vermillion Flycatcher
  78. Vesper Sparrow
  79. Western Meadowlark
  80. White-crowned Sparrow
  81. White-throated Sparrow
  82. Winter Wren
  83. Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
  84. Yellow-rumped Warbler