JANUARY
1. Peregrine Falcon
2. Tundra Swan
3. Gadwall
4. Mallard
5. Greater Scaup
6. Lesser Scaup
7. Long-tailed Duck
8. Bufflehead
9. Hooded Merganser
10. Ruddy Duck
11. Canvasback
12. Surf Scoter
13. Red-breasted Merganser
14. Double-crested Cormorant,
15. Red-shouldered Hawk
16. Ring-billed Gull
17. Herring Gull
18. Great Black-backed Gull
19. American Crow
20. Canada Goose
21. American Black Duck
22. Black Vulture
23. Turkey Vulture
24. Red-tailed Hawk
25. Rock Pigeon
26. Mourning Dove
27. Belted Kingfisher
28. Red-bellied Woodpecker
29. Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
30. Downy Woodpecker
31. Hairy Woodpecker
32. Northern Flicker
33. Pileated Woodpecker
34. Blue Jay
35. Fish Crow
36. Carolina Chickadee
37. Tufted Titmouse
38. Red-breasted Nuthatch
39. White-breasted Nuthatch
40. Carolina Wren
41. Winter Wren
42. Eastern Bluebird
43. American Robin
44. Northern Mockingbird
45. European Starling
46. Cedar Waxwing
47. Eastern Towhee
48. Field Sparrow
49. Fox Sparrow
50. Song Sparrow
51. Swamp Sparrow
52. White-throated Sparrow
53. Dark-eyed Junco
54. Northern Cardinal
55. Red-winged Blackbird
56. Common Grackle
57. Brown-headed Cowbird
58. House Finch
59. Pine Siskin
60. American Goldfinch
61. House Sparrow
62. Bald Eagle
63. Sharp-shinned Hawk
64. Loggerhead Shrike
65. American Kestrel
66. White-crowned Sparrow
67. Golden-crowned Sparrow
68. Purple Finch
69. Northern Shrike
70. Hermit Thrush
71. American Wigeon
72. Common Goldeneye
73. American Coot
74. Clay-colored Sparrow
75. Great Blue Heron
76. Yellow-rumped Warbler
77. Merlin
78. Brant
79. Common Eider
80. Black Scoter
81. Red-throated Loon
82. Common Loon
83. Ruddy Turnstone
84. Red Knot
85. Sanderling
86. Purple Sandpiper
87. Bonaparte's Gull
88. Dovekie
89. Iceland Gull
90. Lesser Black-backed Gull
91. American Tree Sparrow
92. Killdeer
93. Wood Duck
94. Great Cormorant
95. Harlequin Duck
96. White-winged Dove
97. Chipping Sparrow
98. Ross's Goose
99. Ring-necked Duck
100. Northern Pintail
101. Redhead
102. White-winged Scoter
103. Cackling Goose
104. Rufous Hummingbird
105. Snow Goose
106. Green-winged Teal
107. Virginia Rail
108. Nelson's Sparrow
109. Greater Yellowlegs
110. American Oystercatcher
111. Cooper's Hawk
112. Common Merganser
113. Snow Bunting
114. Glaucous Gull
115. Wild Turkey
116. Orange-crowned Warbler
117. Black-capped Chickadee
118. Barred Owl
119. Long-eared Owl
120. Northern Saw-whet Owl
121. Northern Harrier
122. Short-eared Owl
123. Savannah Sparrow
124. American Pipit
125. Eastern Screech-Owl
126. Horned Lark
127. Lapland Longspur
128. Rusty Blackbird
129. Eastern Meadowlark
130. Great Horned Owl
131. Brown-headed Nuthatch
132. Golden-crowned Kinglet
133. Gray Catbird
134. Northern Shoveler
FEBRUARY
135. King Rail
136. Long-billed Dowitcher
137. Tree Swallow
138. Marsh Wren
139. Greater White-fronted Goose
140. Black-headed Gull
141. Blue-winged Teal
142. Mute Swan
143. Eurasian Wigeon
144. Red-headed Woodpecker
145. Eastern Phoebe
146. Horned Grebe
147. American Woodcock
148. Osprey
MARCH
149. Common Redpoll
150. Pied-billed Grebe
151. Red-necked Grebe
152. Laughing Gull
153. Wilson's Snipe
154. Little Gull
155. Pine Warbler
156. Northern Gannet
157. Razorbill
158. Sooty Shearwater
159. Black-bellied Plover
160. Piping Plover
161. Dunlin
162. Boat-tailed Grackle
163. Northern Rough-winged Swallow
164. Common Raven
165. Purple Martin
166. Lesser Yellowlegs
167. Forster's Tern
168. Barn Swallow
169. Great Egret
170. Brown Creeper
171. Brown Thrasher
172. Yellow-crowned Night-Heron
173. Pectoral Sandpiper
174. Caspian Tern
175. Black-crowned Night-Heron
APRIL
176. Royal Tern
177. Snowy Egret
178. Cattle Egret
179. Ruby-crowned Kinglet
180. Palm Warbler
181. Louisiana Waterthrush
182. Little Blue Heron
183. Glossy Ibis
184. Broad-winged Hawk
185. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
186. Yellow-throated Warbler
187. Black-and-white Warbler
188. American Redstart
189. Common Yellowthroat
190. Northern Parula
191. American Bittern
192. Clapper Rail
193. Black-necked Stilt
194. Willet
195. Chuck-will's-widow
196. Seaside Sparrow
197. White-eyed Vireo
198. Solitary Sandpiper
199. Ovenbird
200. Prothonotary Warbler
201. Green Heron
202. Vesper Sparrow
203. Bank Swallow
204. Brown Pelican
205. Eared Grebe
206. Sora
207. Eastern Kingbird
208. Chimney Swift
209. Blue-headed Vireo
210. Hooded Warbler
211. House Wren
212. Spotted Sandpiper
213. Ruby-throated Hummingbird
214. Veery
215. Wood Thrush
216. Prairie Warbler
217. Great Crested Flycatcher
218. Least Bittern
219. Yellow Warbler
220. Yellow-throated Vireo
221. Least Sandpiper
222. Red-eyed Vireo
223. Black-throated Blue Warbler
224. Black-throated Green Warbler
225. Swallow-tailed Kite
226. Northern Waterthrush
227. Blue-winged Warbler
228. Nashville Warbler
229. Least Tern
230. Blue Grosbeak
231. Eastern Whip-poor-will
232. Indigo Bunting
233. Scarlet Tanager
234. Rose-breasted Grosbeak
235. Acadian Flycatcher
236. Orchard Oriole
237. Grasshopper Sparrow
238. Worm-eating Warbler
239. Cliff Swallow
240. Warbling Vireo
241. Baltimore Oriole
242. Bobolink
MAY
243. Blackpoll Warbler
244. Semipalmated Plover
245. Tennessee Warbler
246. Purple Gallinule
247. Common Gallinule
248. Yellow-billed Cuckoo
249. Magnolia Warbler
250. Blackburnian Warbler
251. Kentucky Warbler
252. Cape May Warbler
253. Canada Warbler
254. Yellow-breasted Chat
255. Semipalmated Sandpiper
256. Chestnut-sided Warbler
257. Common Nighthawk
258. Northern Bobwhite
259. Dickcissel
260. White-rumped Sandpiper
261. Eastern Wood-Pewee
262. Summer Tanager
263. Swainson's Thrush
264. Common Tern
265. Short-billed Dowitcher
266. Saltmarsh Sparrow
267. Wilson's Warbler
268. Willow Flycatcher
269. Bay-breasted Warbler
270. Black Skimmer
271. Long-billed Curlew
272. Tricolored Heron
273. Ruffed Grouse
274. Black-billed Cuckoo
275. Least Flycatcher
276. Henslow's Sparrow
277. Cerulean Warbler
278. Golden-winged Warbler
JUNE
279. Black-bellied Whistling-Duck
280. Monk Parakeet
281. Black Rail
282. Wilson's Storm-Petrel
283. Roseate Tern
JULY
284. Mississippi Kite
285. Western Sandpiper
286. Stilt Sandpiper
287. White Ibis
288. American Avocet
289. Black Tern
AUGUST
290. Upland Sandpiper
291. Gull-billed Tern
292. Sandwich Tern
293. Baird's Sandpiper
294. Cory's Shearwater
295. Great Shearwater
296. Audubon's Shearwater
297. Leach's Storm-Petrel
298. Pomarine Jaeger
299. Marbled Godwit
300. Mourning Warbler
SEPTEMBER
301. Buff-breasted Sandpiper
302. Olive-sided Flycatcher
303. Lark Sparrow
304. American Golden-Plover
305. Wilson's Phalarope
306. Red-necked Phalarope
307. Hudsonian Godwit
308. Alder Flycatcher
309. Gray-cheeked Thrush
310. Connecticut Warbler
311. Philadelphia Vireo
312. Townsend's Warbler
313. Ring-necked Pheasant
OCTOBER
314. Lincoln's Sparrow
315. Green Violetear
316. Red Crossbill
NOVEMBER
317. Calliope Hummingbird
DECEMBER
318. American White Pelican
319. Rough-legged Hawk
320. Golden Eagle
321. Black-headed Grosbeak
322. Barrow's Goldeneye
323. Sedge Wren
324. Western Kingbird
325. Pied Crow
326. Franklin's Gull
It has been a very, very good year. Hard to imagine what this list would look like if I would have motivated myself to chase the Wood Stork, the Allen's Hummingbird, the Cave Swallow, or if I would have gone on that late Fall pelagic. Wow! But all in all, I am amazed and pleased and excited to focus on other things in 2012. And yes now.... rest!
Do you still have a hummingbird?
Better question: do you still have your feeders out, cleaned and full? If not, why not?
You could get a rare Western vagrant any day now. Me... I'm keeping my feeders out until 2012! Dare to dream big!
Good Birding All,
-Dan
Click on any photo to enlarge it. These were taken using a iPhone 4 pressed up against my scope one afternoon in August at Swan Creek Dredged Materials Facility in Northern Anne Arundel County, MD.
