Birds
Life list
- American crow
- American goldfinch
- American herring gull[1]
- American oystercatcher
- American robin
- Bald eagle
- Baltimore oriole
- Barn swallow
- Belted kingfisher
- Black and white warbler
- Black bellied whistling duck
- Black vulture
- Blue jay
- Blue gray gnatcatcher
- Brown headed cowbird
- Brown thrasher
- Canada goose
- Carolina wren
- Cedar waxwing
- Chimney swift
- Chipping sparrow
- Common grackle
- Cooper's hawk
- Dark eyed junco (slate colored)
- Double crested cormorant
- Downy woodpecker
- Eastern bluebird
- Eastern phoebe
- Eastern towhee
- Eastern wood pewee
- European starling
- Fish crow
- Golden crowned kinglet
- Great blue heron
- Great crested flycatcher
- Great egret
- Green heron
- Gray catbird
- Hairy woodpecker
- House finch
- House sparrow
- Mallard
- Mourning dove
- Mute swan
- Northern cardinal
- Northern flicker
- Northern mockingbird
- Ovenbird
- Pileated woodpecker
- Pine warbler
- Prairie warbler
- Red bellied woodpecker
- Red headed woodpecker
- Red tailed hawk
- Red winged blackbird
- Ring billed gull
- Rock pigeon
- Ruby crowned kinglet
- Sandhill crane
- Scarlet tanager
- Semipalmated plover
- Semipalmated sandpiper
- Snow goose
- Song sparrow
- Tufted titmouse
- Turkey vulture
- White breasted nuthatch
- White throated sparrow
- Winter wren
- Wild turkey
- Wood thrush
- Yellow bellied sapsucker
As I was reading the Iliad on the beach, a disheveled one with windblown feathers and piercing yellow eyes walked by. I named him Zeus. He was devastatingly handsome. ↩︎