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Recent reports from Brumley Nature Preserve--North

Only the most recent report per species is shown. Some reports may be pending verification.

September 28

3Yellow-billed Cuckoo ✓
1Black Vulture ✓
2Turkey Vulture ✓
1Red-shouldered Hawk ✓
3Red-bellied Woodpecker ✓
2Downy Woodpecker ✓
2Pileated Woodpecker ✓
3Northern Flicker ✓
2Eastern Wood-Pewee ✓
1Eastern Phoebe ✓
1White-eyed Vireo ✓
2Red-eyed Vireo ✓
5Blue Jay ✓
3American Crow ✓
4Carolina Chickadee ✓
6Tufted Titmouse ✓
1White-breasted Nuthatch ✓
2Brown-headed Nuthatch ✓
5Carolina Wren ✓
3Gray Catbird ✓
1Brown Thrasher ✓
2Eastern Bluebird ✓
1Gray-cheeked Thrush ✓
3Swainson's Thrush ✓
2Wood Thrush ✓
4American Goldfinch ✓
1Chipping Sparrow ✓
2Eastern Towhee ✓
1Black-and-white Warbler ✓
2Common Yellowthroat ✓
2American Redstart ✓
1Cape May Warbler ✓
2Northern Parula ✓
4Magnolia Warbler ✓
4Pine Warbler ✓
2Scarlet Tanager ✓
9Northern Cardinal ✓
1Yellow-bellied Sapsucker ✓
1Hairy Woodpecker ✓
1American Robin ✓
5Cedar Waxwing ✓
1Ovenbird ✓
2Rose-breasted Grosbeak ✓
1Belted Kingfisher ✓
1Fish Crow ✓
1Ruby-crowned Kinglet ✓
1Acadian Flycatcher ✓
1Hooded Warbler ✓
1Summer Tanager ✓
2Indigo Bunting ✓
1Great Blue Heron ✓
2Northern House Wren ✓
2House Finch ✓
1Yellow-breasted Chat ✓
2Black-throated Blue Warbler ✓

September 27

2Canada Goose ✓
2Least Flycatcher
1Common Raven ✓
1Palm Warbler ✓
1Solitary Sandpiper ✓
1Blue-headed Vireo ✓
1Northern Mockingbird ✓
1Blue-gray Gnatcatcher ✓
1Mourning Dove ✓
2Red-headed Woodpecker ✓
1Philadelphia Vireo
1Yellow-throated Warbler ✓
3Black-throated Green Warbler ✓
1Baltimore Oriole ✓
1Common Grackle ✓
1Blackburnian Warbler ✓
1Prairie Warbler ✓
1Blue Grosbeak ✓
2Chimney Swift ✓
1Yellow-throated Vireo ✓
1Veery ✓
1Song Sparrow ✓
1Ruby-throated Hummingbird ✓
1Bay-breasted Warbler ✓
1Chestnut-sided Warbler ✓
2Great Crested Flycatcher ✓
1Yellow-rumped Warbler ✓
1Cooper's Hawk ✓
1Red-tailed Hawk ✓
1Marsh Wren
3European Starling ✓
3Red-winged Blackbird ✓

September 26

1Tennessee Warbler ✓
1Wood Duck ✓
1Nashville Warbler ✓
1Wilson's Warbler

September 25

1Green Heron ✓
1Barred Owl ✓
1Blue-winged Warbler ✓
1Worm-eating Warbler ✓
1Osprey ✓

September 24

1Northern Yellow Warbler ✓

September 22

1Golden-winged x Blue-winged Warbler (hybrid) ✓
1Northern Waterthrush ✓