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Recent reports from Biltmore Estate--Deer Park River Trail

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

October 12

400Canada Goose ✓
1Killdeer ✓
1Eastern Phoebe ✓
95American Crow ✓
1Fish Crow ✓
1Northern Mockingbird ✓
1Song Sparrow ✓
3Mourning Dove ✓
40Chimney Swift ✓
1Great Blue Heron ✓
9Turkey Vulture ✓
1Bald Eagle ✓
1Red-shouldered Hawk ✓
1Red-tailed Hawk ✓
1Red-bellied Woodpecker ✓
1Merlin ✓
1Peregrine Falcon ✓
3Blue Jay ✓
40Tree Swallow ✓
2Eastern Bluebird ✓
2Savannah Sparrow ✓
3Yellow-rumped Warbler ✓
1Sharp-shinned Hawk ✓
1Cooper's Hawk ✓
1House Finch ✓
1Palm Warbler ✓

October 11

1Great Egret ✓
7Wild Turkey ✓
1Northern Flicker ✓
3Carolina Chickadee ✓
1Tufted Titmouse ✓
1Marsh Wren ✓
3Carolina Wren ✓
2American Goldfinch ✓
1Swamp Sparrow ✓
4Northern Cardinal ✓
1Wilson's Snipe ✓
1Laughing Gull ✓
1Double-crested Cormorant ✓
1Pileated Woodpecker ✓
2Northern Rough-winged Swallow ✓
2Cedar Waxwing ✓
1Chipping Sparrow ✓
2Eastern Towhee ✓
1Ovenbird ✓
4Blue-winged Teal ✓
1Yellow-bellied Sapsucker ✓
1American Kestrel ✓
1Magnolia Warbler ✓
2Eastern Meadowlark ✓
1Nashville Warbler ✓
1Common Yellowthroat ✓
7Wood Duck ✓
1Osprey ✓
1Hairy Woodpecker ✓
1White-breasted Nuthatch ✓
3Gray Catbird ✓
2Brown Thrasher ✓
3American Robin ✓
1White-crowned Sparrow ✓
2Tennessee Warbler ✓
1Cape May Warbler ✓

October 9

3Downy Woodpecker ✓
1Red-eyed Vireo ✓
1White-throated Sparrow ✓
1Red-winged Blackbird ✓
2Blue Grosbeak ✓

October 8

5Rock Pigeon ✓
2European Starling ✓
1American Redstart ✓
1Yellow-billed Cuckoo ✓
1Belted Kingfisher ✓
2Eastern Wood-Pewee ✓
1Yellow-throated Vireo ✓
1Blue-headed Vireo ✓
1Sedge Wren
1Lincoln's Sparrow ✓
1Indigo Bunting ✓
1Rose-breasted Grosbeak ✓

October 7

1Bobolink ✓

October 6

1American Pipit ✓
1Blue-gray Gnatcatcher ✓
1Black-throated Green Warbler ✓