Yes. Mom and I have been using Merlin. We've IDd almost 40 just on her 2 acre property. We're usually able to follow up with a visual ID once we know what we're looking for from their song.
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Pleased to read that. I was worried that you were running around punching birds, which would have been good exercise for you but stressful for the birds.
That’s a great goal. I’m in Georgia, subscribe to CarolinaBirds because then I know what’s coming down towards me during migration. They have a great bird line that might be of help to you When they start going north again you’ll know what’s coming
Yes! My husband and I started birding in our 50s a long time ago when there wasn’t much on the Internet, everything was on paper and it’s a whole new world out there now.
1. Northern Mockingbird
2. Song sparrow
3. Northern cardinal
4. Eastern towhee
5. Swamp sparrow
6. White-throated sparrow
7. American goldfinch
8. American pipit
9. Cedar waxwing
10. American robin
11. Brown thrasher
12. Carolina wren
13. Blue jay
14. Eastern phoebe
15. Northern flicker
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Please don't harass the wildlife.
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2. Song sparrow
3. Northern cardinal
4. Eastern towhee
5. Swamp sparrow
6. White-throated sparrow
7. American goldfinch
8. American pipit
9. Cedar waxwing
10. American robin
11. Brown thrasher
12. Carolina wren
13. Blue jay
14. Eastern phoebe
15. Northern flicker
17. Red-bellied woodpecker
18. Mourning dove
19. Fox sparrow
20. White-breasted nuthatch
21. American crow
22. Pleated woodpecker
23. Hairy woodpecker
24. Yellow-bellied sapsucker
25. Bald eagle
26. Great blue heron
27. Killdeer
28. Canada goose
29. Red-tailed hawk
31. European starling
32. Ring-billed gull
33. Mallard
34. Rock pigeon
35. Yellow-dumped warbler
36. Merlin
37. Red-shouldered hawk
38. Pie-billed grebe
39. American wigeon
40. Red-breasted merganser
41. Tundra swan
42. Northern pintail
43. Dark-eyed junco
44. House finch
46. Hooded merganser
47. American herring gull
48. House sparrow
49. Tufted titmouse
50. Carolina chickadee
51. Peregrine falcon
52. Ruddy duck
53. Lesser scaup
54. Greater scaup
55. Bonaparte’s gull
56. Cooper’s hawk
57. Belted kingfisher
58. Common merganser
60. Golden-crowned kinglet
61. Red-winged blackbird
62. Rusty blackbird
63. Purple finch
64. White-crowned sparrow
65. Wild turkey
66. Common grackle
67. Double-crested cormorant
69. American coot
70. Green-winged teal
71. Gadwall
72. Bufflehead