The snow geese are coming in droves, which all the locals take to mean that cold weather has arrived and is here to stay. We’ve been keeping our eye on the BirdCast this fall, and it looks like November was a very good month for birding and hunting here on Delmarva.
Here’s a list we’ve compiled of all the birds spotted at the Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge over the course of the past few weeks.
American Bittern
American Black Duck
American Black Duck x Mallard hybrid
American Coot
American Crow
American Goldfinch
American Kestrel
American Oystercatcher
American Pipit
American Robin
American Wigeon
Bald Eagle
Belted Kingfisher
Black Scoter
Black Vulture
Black-bellied Plover
blackbird sp.
Black-crowned Night-Heron
Blue Jay
Blue-winged Teal
Boat-tailed Grackle
Bonaparte’s Gull
Brant
Brown Creeper
Brown Pelican
Brown-headed Cowbird
Brown-headed Nuthatch
Bufflehead
Canada Goose
Carolina Chickadee
Carolina Wren
Cattle Egret
Chipping Sparrow
Clapper Rail
Common Eider
Common Grackle
Common Loon
Common Yellowthroat
Cooper’s Hawk
Dark-eyed Junco
Double-crested Cormorant
Downy Woodpecker
Dunlin
Eastern Bluebird
Eastern Meadowlark
Eastern Phoebe
Eastern Screech-Owl
Eastern Towhee
European Starling
Field Sparrow
Forster’s Tern
Fox Sparrow
Gadwall
Glossy Ibis
Golden-crowned Kinglet
Gray Catbird
Great Black-backed Gull
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Greater Yellowlegs
Greater/Lesser Yellowlegs
Green-winged Teal
Hairy Woodpecker
Hermit Thrush
Herring Gull
Hooded Merganser
Horned Grebe
Horned Lark
House Finch
House Sparrow
Killdeer
Laughing Gull
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Lesser Yellowlegs
Lincoln’s Sparrow
Little Blue Heron
Long-billed Dowitcher
Long-tailed Duck
Mallard
Marbled Godwit
Marsh Wren
Merlin
Mourning Dove
Nelson’s Sparrow
Northern Cardinal
Northern Flicker
Northern Gannet
Northern Harrier
Northern Mockingbird
Northern Pintail
Northern Shoveler
Orange-crowned Warbler
Palm Warbler
Parasitic Jaeger
Peep
Peregrine Falcon
Pied-billed Grebe
Pileated Woodpecker
Pine Siskin
Pine Warbler
Purple Finch
Red Knot
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Red-breasted Merganser
Redhead
Red-necked Grebe
Red-shouldered Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
Red-throated Loon
Red-winged Blackbird
Ring-billed Gull
Ring-necked Duck
Rock Pigeon
Ross’s Goose
Royal Tern
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Ruddy Duck
Ruddy Turnstone
Rusty Blackbird
Saltmarsh Sparrow
Sanderling
Savannah Sparrow
Scoter
Seaside Sparrow
Sharp-shinned Hawk
Short-billed/Long-billed Dowitcher
Snow Bunting
Snow Goose
Snowy Egret
Song Sparrow
Surf Scoter
Surf/Black Scoter
Swamp Sparrow
Tree Swallow
Tricolored Heron
Tufted Titmouse
Tundra Swan
Turkey Vulture
White Ibis
White-breasted Nuthatch
White-throated Sparrow
Willet
Winter Wren
Wood Duck
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Yellow-rumped Warbler