BIRD LIST
last updated Nov 13th, 2007

A couple of photos from 2004: SUMMER TANAGER male April 30th, 2004 and PRAIRIE WARBLER male July 16th, 2004 - both at Wild Rose guest house

Tom and Lily moved to Wheatley, Ontario on February 26^th, 1999. This list of birds includes all species positively identified by sight or sound while birding on their property. The Wild Rose is located on the east side of Wheatley next to a small creek that feeds into Wheatley Provincial Park. Most of their 2.5 acre property is deciduous woodland. This list will be updated as new birds are found.

UPDATE:  - On March 23rd, 2007 around 4 pm Tom heard and saw a WHOOPING CRANE flying low over the yard flying west!  This amazing sighting was the first of a series in southern Ontario this spring!

UPDATE: - On November 13th, 2007 a single EVENING GROSBEAK flew west over the yard in mid morning. 

1. Common Loon (regular in April flying off the lake from the southeast in early morning)
2. Double-crested Cormorant
3. Great Blue Heron
4. Great Egret
5. Green Heron (likely nests nearby)
6. Black-crowned Night Heron
7. Yellow-crowned Night Heron (observed on property prior to owning it)
8. Turkey Vulture
9. Snow Goose (one record with Canada Goose flock)
10. Canada Goose
11. Tundra Swan (several large flocks seen in early March)
12. Wood Duck (has nested right over the pool!)
13. American Black Duck
14. Mallard
15. Gadwall (one record, April 30th, 2005)
16. Blue-winged Teal (one record)
17. Green-winged Teal (one record)
18. Canvasback (three in flight Oct. 99 spotted by Al Maley!)
19. Lesser Scaup (one record)
20. Common Goldeneye (two records)
21. Hooded Merganser (four records - all females flying up and down the creek in spring)
22. Common Merganser (two records)
23. Red-breasted Merganser (one record)
24. Osprey
25. Bald Eagle (at least five records)
26. Northern Harrier
27. Sharp-shinned Hawk
28. Cooper's Hawk (a regular at the feeder)
29. Red-shouldered Hawk (regular in fall, occasional in winter - #149)
30. Broad-winged Hawk (finally! - August 21st, 99 - #150)
31. Swainson's Hawk  (one record with broad-wings, Sept 2000)
32. Red-tailed Hawk (surprisingly few observations, though a regular some winters in the ravine)
33. Rough-legged Hawk (first Nov. 29th, 99, one or two a year)
34. Golden Eagle (two records, first an adult, Oct 99)
35. American Kestrel
36. Merlin (one bird in early March 2001 chasing birds at feeder, two others)
37. Peregrine Falcon (three records, two the same day in Sept, 2000)
38. Ring-necked Pheasant (spring 2004 male calling for several weeks)
39. Wild Turkey (now seen sporadically in the back yard after an initial sighting in 2005)
40. Sora (May 31st, 2005 11:30 pm - our 200th species for the yard!)
41. Sandhill Crane (three records!)
42. WHOOPING CRANE (March 23rd, 2007 - flying low over the yard calling and heading west!!!)
43. Black-bellied Plover
44. American Golden-Plover
45. Semipalmated Plover (August, 2001)
46. Killdeer
47. Greater Yellowlegs
48. Lesser Yellowlegs (flock of ten in flight on Aug. 14th, 99 - #148)
49. Solitary Sandpiper (at night, by call several times)
50. Spotted Sandpiper (regular in the creek)
51. Upland Sandpiper (at night, by call - several daytime flyovers in fall)
52. Ruddy Turnstone (night flyover)
53. Least Sandpiper (night flyover)
54. Pectoral Sandpiper
55. Dunlin (night flyover)
56. Short-billed Dowitcher (night flyover)
57. Common Snipe
58. American Woodcock (breeding on the property)
59. Bonaparte's Gull
60. Ring-billed Gull
61. Herring Gull
62. Great Black-backed Gull
63. Caspian Tern
64. Common Tern
65. Forster's Tern
66. Black Tern
67. Rock Pigeon
68. Eurasian Collared Dove (June 21st, 2001!)
69. Mourning Dove
70. Black-billed Cuckoo
71. Yellow-billed Cuckoo
72. Eastern Screech Owl (breeds most years in the yard)
73. Great Horned Owl (heard irregularly)
74. Common Nighthawk
75. Whip-poor-will (one record - May 2^nd, 99)
76. Chimney Swift (a regular)
77. Ruby-throated Hummingbird (seems to be breeding in yard)
78. Belted Kingfisher (heard often, seen rarely)
79. Red-headed Woodpecker (despite great habitat, only seen in migration)
80. Red-bellied Woodpecker (breeds nearby, regular at feeder in winter)
81. Yellow-bellied Sapsucker (lots during migration)
82. Downy Woodpecker (breeds in yard)
83. Hairy Woodpecker (scarce, but most winters a female or a pair at the feeders)
84. Black-backed Woodpecker (one record fall 2003)
85. Northern Flicker (breeds in yard)
86. Olive-sided Flycatcher
87. Eastern Wood Pewee
88. Yellow-bellied Flycatcher
89. Acadian Flycatcher (three records - all in June, the first on June 22nd, 1999)
90. Alder Flycatcher
91. Willow Flycatcher
92. Least Flycatcher
93. Eastern Phoebe
94. Great Crested Flycatcher (breeds in yard)
95. Eastern Kingbird
96. Northern Shrike (juvenile November 2004)
97. White-eyed Vireo (at least five records)
98. Yellow-throated Vireo
99. Blue-headed Vireo
100. Warbling Vireo
101. Philadelphia Vireo
102. Red-eyed Vireo
103. Blue Jay
104. American Crow
105. Horned Lark
106. Purple Martin (formerly bred at the end of our street now rarely seen)
107. Tree Swallow
108. N. Rough-winged Swallow
109. Bank Swallow
110. Cliff Swallow
111. Barn Swallow
112. Black-capped Chickadee (nests in yard)
113. Tufted Titmouse (two records)
114. Red-breasted Nuthatch (first record an early fall migrant July 28th, 99, sometimes overwinters)
115. White-breasted Nuthatch (mostly in winter)
116. Brown Creeper
117. Carolina Wren ( a family group of four arrived in early July, breeds almost every year)
118. House Wren
119. Winter Wren
120. Marsh Wren
121. Golden-crowned Kinglet
122. Ruby-crowned Kinglet
123. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
124. Eastern Bluebird (four records including a pair investigating a box in spring 2002)
125. Veery
126. Gray-cheeked Thrush
127. Swainson's Thrush
128. Hermit Thrush
129. Wood Thrush
130. American Robin
131. Gray Catbird (nests)
132. Northern Mockingbird (one record April 2002)
133. Brown Thrasher (at feeder in early spring several times)
134. European Starling
135. American Pipit
136. Cedar Waxwing
137. Blue-winged Warbler (five records all in May)
138. Golden-winged Warbler (three records, all in May)
139. Tennessee Warbler
140. Orange-crowned Warbler
141. Nashville Warbler
142. Northern Parula
143. Yellow Warbler
144. Chestnut-sided Warbler
145. Magnolia Warbler
146. Cape May Warbler
147. Black-throated Blue Warbler
148. Yellow-rumped Warbler
149. Black-throated Green Warbler
150. Blackburnian Warbler
151. Pine Warbler
152. Prairie Warbler (one record a singing male photographed July 16, 2004)
153. Palm Warbler
154. Bay-breasted Warbler
155. Blackpoll Warbler
156. Cerulean Warbler (May, 2001)
157. Black-and-white Warbler
158. American Redstart
159. Ovenbird
160. Northern Waterthrush
161. Louisiana Waterthrush (two records including one record, August, 2001)
162. Connecticut Warbler (May, 2002)
163. Mourning Warbler
164. Common Yellowthroat
165. Hooded Warbler (six records, all males)
166. Wilson's Warbler
167. Canada Warbler
168. Summer Tanager (the highlight so far - adult male for 3 weeks at feeder in both '99 and 2000, plus males seen and photographed in '01 and '04)
169. Scarlet Tanager
170. Eastern Towhee
171. American Tree Sparrow
172. Chipping Sparrow
173. Field Sparrow
174. Vesper Sparrow (one record, heard on April, 2001)
175. Savannah Sparrow
176. Fox Sparrow (up to six at a time at feeder in spring and fall)
177. Song Sparrow
178. Lincoln's Sparrow
179. Swamp Sparrow
180. White-throated Sparrow
181. White-crowned Sparrow
182. Dark-eyed Junco
183. Lapland Longspur (regular fly over in spring and fall in good numbers)
184. Snow Bunting (regular fly over with Horned Larks in early spring and late fall)
185. Northern Cardinal (28 at once during a snow storm in March!)
186. Rose-breasted Grosbeak (up to a dozen at the feeder in early May)
187. Indigo Bunting (another feeder regular in May)
188. Dickcissel (flyover in summer, 2000)
189. Bobolink
190. Red-winged Blackbird
191. Eastern Meadowlark
192. Rusty Blackbird (regular at feeder in late March)
193. Common Grackle
194. Brown-headed Cowbird
195. Orchard Oriole
196. Baltimore Oriole (breeds)
197. Purple Finch
198. House Finch
199. Common Redpoll (single flyover Nov. 99)
200. Pine Siskin
201. American Goldfinch
202. Evening Grosbeak (flyover November 13th, 2007)
203. House Sparrow
204. ?

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