Very nice! The pictures are very clear. Funnily enough, I’ve seen those birds here too! XD
Nice! My usuals that I see at home are primarily woodland birds, raptors, and warblers. Last year, the most interesting thing at home was a cerulean warbler. Once there was a great blue heron that flew over the mountain though haha. Sometimes I’ll travel to some other habitat, especially when trying to track things.
Nice! We see a lot of red-tailed hawks along highways here. There is one habitat of old marshy forest around here where I saw 6 different barred owls and witnessed a pair duet.
We have a tooon of other small birds, too. Some of our numerous woodpeckers include pileated, downy, hairy, red bellied, yellow bellied, and northern flickers. We also have goldfinches (one of my favs), rose breasted grosbeaks (another favorite), cardinals, blue jays, mourning doves, ruby throated hummingbirds, and so many more. I’ll keep updating on things I’ve seen as I think of them. I hope I have some good pictures! I’ll have to look.
Red-headed woodpecker
Bald eagle
Barn swallow
Mute swan
Red-winged blackbird
Black-crowned night heron
Barred owl
Prothonotary warbler
Great blue heron
Rose-Breasted Grosbeak
Blue Jay
House Sparrow
Pileated Woodpecker 
Red-Bellied Woodpecker
Yellow-shafted Northern Flicker
Eastern Bluebird
Carolina Chickadee
Scarlet Tanager 
Indigo Bunting
Ruby-Throated Hummingbird
Hairy Woodpecker 
Barn Swallow
Interesting...that particular spring was the only time I saw Orioles, I kept waiting for them to come back the following years but no luck!
Nice shots! I have a lot of photos of those same birds...no indigo bunting though that’s cool! Same with the owl.
Oh gosh, it’s so hard to decide. I have a whole list of favorites. I like downy & pileated woodpeckers, rose breasted grosbeaks, Orioles, and scarlet tanagers for appearance, I love great horned owls, goldfinches, red winged blackbirds, loons, and cardinals for their call, and I love hummingbirds for their cuteness.
Awesome! Thanks for the info. It makes sense that the bobolink is a grassland bird, as I used to see them at a grass airfield where we used to fly RC aircraft out of.
great question—ive always loved cardinals. I also really like eastern bluebirds, red bellied woodpeckers, goldfinches, nuthatches, and swallows.
When I was a little kid I was obsessed with owls. There is a children’s museum near me that has 2 owls a screech owl and a barn owl in much much much much too small enclosures where they don’t even have room to fly. I didn’t know any better then and I always loved to see them. I love birds of prey as well, but it’s kind of a love hate relationship since they tend to be attracted to my bird feeder with food for songbirds. A lot of Red Hawks in my area, the suburbs of NYS don’t exactly have much wildlife.
Hey Sofia where in NY are you? I’m an hour north of the Bronx (just over the line in CT) and there is a ton of wildlife, including a very diverse bird population. I honestly just picked up a little field book and I was surprised with just a little patience how many of the birds in the books lived around here (and that I could identify!). We have a ton of red tail hawks too, I was sitting on my deck the other day and one swooped down and picked up a mouse about 20 feet from me, it was wild!
I’m in the Capital Region in a massive area of highways and suburbs with no uncleared land for miles and miles and miles around.
I’ve been seeing a ton of bald eagles lately as well, which is really cool. In fact last weekend we drove up north of Albany for a vacation and saw a bald eagle on the drive up
