What birds visit your yard or community?

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Dr. Rin Porter
Location
Minnesota
It's spring in Minnesota, and the migrating birds are traveling through my area. It's fun to see them. We have trumpeter swans, sand hill cranes, Canada geese, loons, and ducks tat stop here on their way to somewhere else.

My bird feeder attracts sparrows, woodpeckers, bluejays, tanagers, and several other species.Canada geese.jpg
 

I don't know the names of them all so looked them up. The ones I know are blue tit, great tit, robin, woodpecker, chaffinch, gulls, oystercatcher. But the local bird club listed all these:

Common Shelduck, Eurasian Wigeon, Eurasian Teal, Common Eider, Common Goldeneye, Red-breasted Merganser, Little Grebe, Oystercatcher, Ringed Plover, Eurasian Curlew, Common Redshank, Turnstone, gulls, Kingfisher.

and these:

Goosander, Common Buzzard, Peregrine Falcon, Eurasian Sparrowhawk, Tawny Owl, Woodcock, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Green Woodpecker, Grey Wagtail, Tree Pipit, Dipper, Common Redstart, Blackcap, Wood Warbler, Willow Warbler, Goldcrest, Spotted Flycatcher, Long-tailed Tit, Coal Tit, Blue Tit, Great Tit, Eurasian Treecreeper, Common Chaffinch, Lesser Redpoll, Siskin, Common Crossbill, Bullfinch.
 

In town: mockingbird, brown thrasher, robin, hummingbird, cardinal, mourning dove, bluejay, geese, hawk, starling, barn swallow, owl, various sparrows and finches.

Out at the farm add: bluebird, whipporwill, kingfisher, downy woodpecker, house wren, buzzard, wild turkey and quail. One bird I believe is an osprey---looks like a hawk but dives deep for fish. And one lone great blue heron---always just one, hanging around the lake.

My favorite is the mockingbird, and they seem to be increasing in population in town.
 
I have a really nice hawthorn tree in my front yard. Gorgeous white flowers in the spring and bright red berries in the fall which stay on the tree until the 15th of January. And on or about that date every year a flock of a hundred robins descends on the tree and gorges on the berries until every last one is gone. I highly recommend hawthorn as an ornamental yard tree, nicely shaped, doesn't grow too big. The fall foliage isn't very colorful, but the spring flowers and winter berries make up for that.

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Beautiful tree Josiah, and a hundred robins!
living near an old church and churchyard, we have so many nesting rooks around us that it puts off the smaller birds, we also get a lot of circling red kites.At night there are a lot of tawny owls around, haven't seen them of course, just heard them.During the day, we have a few robins and bluetits and long tailed tits and chaffinches, and now and then a green woodpecker.Too many wood pigeons, which are a nuisance, and a few jackdaws.
 
I live on a canyon and there's always something to see: Hummingbirds, goldfinches, hawks, crows, ravens, mourning doves, Mexican scrub jays (similar to blue jays), house finches, woodpeckers, mockingbirds, occasional seagulls (though I'm not very close to the ocean) and once in a blue moon, large vultures
 
Lovely photos! In my area there are Red-Winged Blackbirds, Mallard Ducks, Pheasant, Grouse, Canadian Geese, Bald Eagles, Owls, Shrikes, Seagulls, etc. In my backyard I've seen Red-Tailed Hawks, Mourning Doves, Hummingbirds (rare), Magpies, Crows, Woodpeckers, Sparrows, Blue Jays, Robin Redbreast, and a few other small birds not sure what they are.

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sparrows, robins, blue jays, pigeons, hawks, seagulls, ducks, geese, crows, woodpeckers .... to name a few
 
Josiah said:
I have a really nice hawthorn tree in my front yard. Gorgeous white flowers in the spring and bright red berries in the fall which stay on the tree until the 15th of January. And on or about that date every year a flock of a hundred robins descends on the tree and gorges on the berries until every last one is gone. I highly recommend hawthorn as an ornamental yard tree, nicely shaped, doesn't grow too big. The fall foliage isn't very colorful, but the spring flowers and winter berries make up for that.

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You have a real nice looking front yard from what I can see Josiah. I like it and that hawthorn is pretty.
 
Here, we get roadrunners. I have one (or maybe it's a succession) that is in my yard every year. They're fun to watch. They actually DO run down the roads, too.

Lotsa pigeons, too.
 

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