SPRING 2008

• 03/06/08 Red-winged Blackbird Sighted
• 03/20/08 Robin Sighted
• 03/26/08 Robin singing
• 03/25/08 Great Blue Heron
• 03/27/08 Wood Ducks
• 03/28/08 Turkey Vulture
• 04/01/08 Pond Ice Out
• 04/05/08 First Earthworm
• 04/14/08 Robins Mating
• 04/17/08 Western Chorus Frogs
• 04/21/08 Bullfrog
• 05/13/08 Ruby-throated Hummingbird
• 05/17/08 Baltimore Oriole

SPRING 2009

• 03/13/09 Robin Sighted
• 03/13/09 Benji Sighted
• 03/14/09 Ice Out on Pond
• 03/16/09 Robin Singing
• 03/16/09 Wood ducks
• 03/23/09 Red-winged Blackbird
• 03/24/09 Great Blue Heron
• 03/23/09 Hooded Merganser Pair
• 03/25/09 Song Sparrow
• 03/29/09 Leopard Frog
• 03/31/09 Dark-eyed Junco
• 04/03/09 Chipping Sparrows
• 04/22/09 Mallard Brood 1 (9)
• 05/04/09 Belted Kingfisher
• 05/05/09 Bullfrog
• 05/14/09 Rose-breasted Grosbeak
• 05/20/09 Ruby-throated Hummingbird
• 05/30/09 Goslings (3)

SUMMER 2009

• 06/14/09 Starlings, Grackles, Chipping Sparrows fledge being fed by parents
• 06/17/09 2 Belted Kingfishers
• 06/17/09 Chipping Sparrow Feed Cowbird
• 08/24/09 Last male RT Hummingbird

FALL 2009

• 09/1/09 Last Chipping Sparrow
• 09/19/09 Ruby-throat Hummingbird
• 09/20/09 Chipping Sparrow
• 09/21/09 Brown Creeper
• 10/03/09 Small Flock of Chipping Sparrows
• 10/06/09 Chipping Sparrow
• 10/06/09 Cicada & Katydid Song
• 10/06/09 Red-breasted Nuthatch
• 10/10/09 Great Blue Heron
• 10/21/09 American Robin
• 10/25/09 Yellow-Throated Sparrow
• 10/28/09 Dark-eyed Junco
• 10/30/09 Belted Kingfisher
• 11/20/09 Wood Duck
• 11/21/09 Great Blue Heron

WINTER 2009

• 12/31/09 Flying Squirrel

WINTER 2010

• 01/04/10 American Tree Sparrow

SPRING 2010

• 03/08 Canada Geese return to pond
• 03/08 Iris Shoots
• 03/10 Waterfowl Territorial Disputes
• 03/11 First Bee Seen
• 03/14 Common Grackle
• 03/16 American Robin
• 03/16 Muskrat Out
• 03/18 Ice Out Pond
• 03/18 Red-winged Blackbird
• 03/21 Wood Duck Drake
• 03/28 Wood Duck Pair
• 03/28 Wood Thrush
• 03/29 Great Blue Heron
• 04/01 Bull Frog Call
• 04/01 American Toad Call
• 04/01 Belted Kingfisher
• 04/02 Spring Peeper Call
• 04/03 Snapping Turtle Hatchling
• 04/04 Chorus Frogs
• 04/06 Turkey Vultures
• 04/08 Dark-eyed Junco
• 04/22 Brood 1-Ducklings-11
• 04/23 Brood 1-Ducklings-1
• 05/05 Canada Goose Brood 1-5
• 05/06 Brood 1-Duckling-2 Wks
• 05/06 Canada Goose Brood 1-4
• 05/06 Common Snapping Turtle
• 05/12 Rose-breasted Grosbeak
• 05/12 Brood 2- six
• 05/15 Brood 2 six to four
• 05/17 Brood 1-last saw duckling

FALL 2010

• 09/19/10 Last Hummingbird
• 09/01/10 Cottonwood Leaves (yellow) Falling
• 09/20/10 Ash Tree Leaves (yellow)
• 09/24/10 Silver Maple Leaves Changing
• 09/26/10 Belted Kingfisher
• 10/22/10 Autumn Dragonfly
• 10/24/10 Red Breasted Nuthatch
• 10/27/10 Dark-eyed Junco-2 males
• 11/01/10 Hard Freeze
• 11/01/10 Green-winged Teal Female
• 11/12/10 Great Blue Heron

Winter 2010-2011

• 12/10/10 American Tree Sparrow
• 02-01/11 American Tree Sparrow-Ill
• 02/10/11 American Robin at Bird Bath

Spring 2011

• 03/15/11 American Robins in Yard
• 03/17/11 Hooded Merganser Pair
• 03/26/11 Song Sparrow
• 04/13/11 Chipping Sparrow
• 04/13/11 Rescue American Goldfinch
• 04/10/11 American Toad Calling
• 04/16/11 Northern Leopard Frog Calling
• 04/20/11 Belted Kingfisher
• 04/21/11 Muskrat Mating
• 04/25/11 White-throated Sparrow

Fall 2011

• 09/20/11 Ruby-throat hummingbird
• 09/20/11 Monarch Butterfly Female on Snakeroot
• 09/21/11 Cicada Day
• 10/04/11 Great Blue Heron
• 10/09/11 Belted Kingfisher
• 10/10/11 Katydid Song At Night

Winter 2012

• 01/14/12 American Tree Sparrow

Spring 2012

• 02/29/12 Ice out on pond
• 03/03/12 First red-winged blackbird male
• 03/05/12 First Common Grackle
• 03/07/12  American Robins
• 03/14/12  Bee, Mosquito, Milkweed Bug, Grasshopper
• 03/15/12  Cowbird-male
• 03/25/12 Wood Ducks. (2 drakes, 1 hen)
• 03/27/12 Great Blue Heron
• 04/06/12 Chipping Sparrow
• 04/15/12 Dark-Eyed Junco
• 04/15/12 Red Admiral Butterflies
• 04/25/12 1st Mallard Brood #9
• 04/25/12 1st Canada Goose Brood #5
• 04/27/12 2nd Mallard Brood #2
• 04/28/12 2nd Mallard Brood from #2-1
• 05/01/12  2nd Mallard Brood #2-zero
• 05/02/12 Hummingbird
• 05/02/12 Male Woodthrush heard singing
• 05/15/12 Canada Goose Brood Two- #3 chicks
• 05/15/12 Mallard Brood Three-#10-12 chicks
• 05/18/12 Canada Goose Brood Two-Lost 1 chick
• 05/19/12 House Finch Brood
• 05/29/12 Mallard Brood One-Lost 1 chick-3 remain
• 05/30/12 Canada Goose Brood Two-Lost 1 chick to snapping turtle-1 remains
• 06/01/12 Mallard Brood One-1 chick lost to snapping turtle-2 remain
• 06/03/12 Mallard Brood Four #9-10 chicks

SPRING 2013

 

• 03/07/13 pond ice out
• 03/10/13 heard first american robin
• 03/14/13 first common grackle
• 03/27/13 song sparrow singing
• 04/03/13 Dark-eyed Junco
• 04/04/13 See american robin
• 04/29/13 Two or Three pairs of wood ducks
• 05/03/ 13 American toads stop calling after Argnique was put into wetland woods
• 05/05/13 Red-tailed hawk takes wood duck drake of one breeding pair
• 05/09/14  Two male baltimore orioles
• 05/13/13  Mallard Brood 1 – 11 ducklings
• 05/16/13  Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly on lilacs
• 05/16/13 Ruby-throat Hummingbird
• 05/16/13 Two canada geese family brood 1- 5 gosling. Brood 2 -1 gosling
• 05/17/13  Mallard hen with 2 ducklings – I think of out the 11
• 05/17/13  Another pair of geese with no goslings-I think the single gosling was lost.
• 05/17/13 Hearing one bullfrog and one green frog calling

SPRING 2014

• 03/11/14 First Common Grackle
• 03/13/14 First Red-winged Blackbird
• 03/24/14 First Song Sparrow
• 04/6/14 Males-Wood Duck and Mandarin Duck
• 04/8/14 Ice Out on the Pond
• 04/20/14 Last Dark-eyed Junco
• 05/09/14 First Great Blue Heron
• 05/09/14 Male and Female Rose Breasted Grosbeak

SUMMER 2014

• One Bullfrog Calling
• Few Green Frogs Calling
• First Muskrat on pond since 2011
• Canada Goose Brood 1- Six-seven goslings-Four 
• Canada Goose Brood 2- Two Goslings?
• Canada Goose Brood 3 -Three goslings-lost two-One
• Doubled-crested Comorant

FALL 2014

• 09/20/14 Single Male Monarch
• 09/27/14  Single Ruby-Throated Hummingbird
• 10/10/14 Single Ruby-Throated Hummingbird
• 11/04/14 Single Female Dark-eyed Junco
• 11/09/14 First Brown Creeper

WINTER 2015

• 01/06/15 American Tree Sparrow
• 02/02/15 American Tree Sparrow
• 02/14/15 Single Pine Siskin
• 02/13/15 Canada Geese
• 02/15/15 Canada Goose W/One Foot

SPRING 2015

• 03/08/15 Last Day Injured Goose Was Here (3 weeks total)
• 03/13/15 First single red-winged blackbird male
• 03/14/15 First American Robin Heard
• 03/29/15 First Great Blue Heron
• 04/12/15 Spring Peepers, Leopard frog, American Toads (warm day)

WINTER 2016 (historic warmth)

• 12/22/15 Wood Duck Hen
• 12/23/15 Mink

SPRING 2016

• 04/16/17 Second Wave of American Toads, Spring Peepers, Leopard Frog
• 04/17/16 First Queen Bumble Bee

SPRING 2017

• Record warmth for February
• 02/24/7 Common Grackle or Red-winged Blackbird
• 04/10/17 Heard Leopard from snoring call
• 04/11/17  Still some dark-eyed juncos on yard
• 04/11/17  Muskrat since early spring

SPRING 2018

• 3/03/18 Flock of red-winged blackbird, grackles and starlings
• 03/6/18 First Wood Duck Drake