Northern Pearly-eye Butterfly

Mourning Warbler

Rose-Breasted Grosbeak Pair

Male (above) and female (below) 

American Goldfinch Pair

A pair of American Goldfinch (male above, female below) feasting on wild grass seeds. I consider this tiny bird to be my perennial favorite.  They are in our region all year round and brighten the day in any season.

Eastern American Red Fox

Red-bellied Woodpecker

American Kestrel

An adult male American Kestrel caught and flew off with a rodent that was near a brush pile on our property.

Green Heron

Fish Crows

When asked if they are American Crows, they say "uh uh, uh uh!"

Veery

I think the Veery has the most beautiful song ever.  They migrate all the way from South America to breed and sing in our northern forests during the summer month.  If you've never heard them sing, click on this link for a video  of them singing. 

Photo taken in the Canadaway Creek Wildlife Management Area in Arkwright, New York.

Chestnut-sided Warbler

American Redstart

Canada Warbler

Eastern Towhee

Ovenbird

Yellow-billed Cuckoo

My first of year Yellow-billed Cuckoo sighting!  (Photo taken at Canadaway Creek WMA in Arkwright, New York.)

Eastern Kingbird

Eastern Wood-Pewee

Tricolored Heron

Common Gallinule

Great Egret

Painted Bunting

The Painted Bunting is considered to be a "near threatened" species. They are being abused by humans who trap them illegally to sell as cage birds. Conservation efforts are being made which includes the study of their migration patterns and many are banded as can be seen in these photos taken at Huntington Beach State Park in South Carolina.

Red-cockaded Woodpecker

The Red-cockaded Woodpecker is listed as a federally Endangered Species in danger of extinction.  I was fortunate to find and photograph this bird in the Carolina Sandhills NWR in South Carolina. These birds require old-growth pine trees (preferably long-leaf pine) that are at least 60 years old as a suitable habitat to survive.  Intense logging of southern pine forests has destroyed the majority of their native habitat.

White-eyed Vireo

Swallow-tailed Kite

Sanderling

Anhinga

The Anhinga is also known as the "water turkey."  It doesn't look anything like a turkey to me.

Prothonotary Warblers

Brown-headed Nuthatch

Blue Grosbeaks

Bachman's Sparrow

The Bachman's Sparrow is very uncommon and some of them live in the long leaf pine forests of the southern United States.  I photographed this beauty in the Carolina Sandhills National Wildlife Refuge today.

Cedar Waxwing

Great Crested Flycatcher

Least Sandpiper

Least Sandpiper taking a migration break and a stretch.  It's a long trip to the Arctic Circle!

Photos taken at Lake Flavia in South Dayton, New York.

Canada Warblers