Howard County Bird Club
Species Lists for Sewells Orchard Park
Seasonal List
Seasons: Sp (Spring): March–May; Su (Summer): June–July; F (Fall): August–November; W (Winter): December–February.
Name | Sp | Su | F | W |
Cackling Goose* | X | |||
Canada Goose* | X | X | X | X |
Trumpeter Swan | X | |||
Tundra Swan | X | |||
Wood Duck | X | X | ||
Blue-winged Teal | X | X | ||
Gadwall | X | |||
Mallard* | X | X | X | X |
American Black Duck | X | X | X | |
Redhead | X | |||
Ring-necked Duck | X | X | ||
Lesser Scaup | X | |||
Bufflehead | X | X | X | X |
Hooded Merganser | X | X | X | |
Common Merganser | X | |||
Ruddy Duck | X | |||
Pied-billed Grebe | X | X | X | |
Horned Grebe | X | |||
Rock Pigeon | X | X | X | X |
Mourning Dove | X | X | X | X |
Yellow-billed Cuckoo | X | X | ||
Black-billed Cuckoo | X | |||
Common Nighthawk | X | |||
Chimney Swift | X | X | X | |
Ruby-throated Hummingbird | X | X | X | |
American Coot | X | X | ||
Killdeer | X | |||
Spotted Sandpiper | X | X | ||
Ring-billed Gull | X | X | X | X |
Herring Gull | X | |||
Caspian Tern | X | |||
Common Loon | X | |||
Double-crested Cormorant | X | X | X | |
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron | X | |||
Black-crowned Night-Heron | X | X | ||
Green Heron | X | X | X | |
Great Egret | X | X | ||
Great Blue Heron | X | X | X | X |
Black Vulture | X | X | X | X |
Turkey Vulture | X | X | X | X |
Osprey | X | X | X | |
Northern Harrier | X | |||
Sharp-shinned Hawk | X | X | X | |
Cooper’s Hawk | X | X | X | X |
Bald Eagle | X | X | X | |
Red-shouldered Hawk * | X | X | X | X |
Broad-winged Hawk | X | X | ||
Red-tailed Hawk | X | X | X | X |
Eastern Screech-Owl | X | X | ||
Barred Owl | X | X | ||
Belted Kingfisher | X | X | X | |
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker | X | X | X | |
Red-headed Woodpecker | X | |||
Red-bellied Woodpecker | X | X | X | X |
Downy Woodpecker | X | X | X | X |
Hairy Woodpecker | X | X | X | |
Piliated Woodpecker | X | X | X | |
Northern Flicker | X | X | X | X |
American Kestrel | X | |||
Merlin | X | X | ||
Eastern Wood-Pewee | X | X | X | |
Acadian Flycatcher | X | X | ||
Willow Flycatcher | X | |||
Least Flycatcher | X | X | ||
Eastern Phoebe | X | X | X | X |
Great Crested Flycatcher | X | X | X | |
Eastern Kingbird | X | X | X | |
White-eyed Vireo | X | X | X | |
Yellow-throated Vireo | X | |||
Blue-headed Vireo | X | |||
Warbling Vireo | X | X | ||
Red-eyed Vireo | X | X | X | |
Blue Jay | X | X | X | X |
American Crow | X | X | X | X |
Fish Crow | X | X | X | X |
Common Raven | X | X | ||
Carolina Chickadee | X | X | X | X |
Tufted Titmouse | X | X | X | X |
Tree Swallow | X | |||
Purple Martin | X | X | ||
Northern Rough-winged Swallow | X | X | ||
Barn Swallow * | X | X | X |
Name | Sp | Su | F | W |
Ruby-crowned Kinglet | X | X | X | |
Golden-crowned Kinglet | X | X | X | |
White-breasted Nuthatch | X | X | X | X |
Red-breasted Nuthatch | X | X | X | |
Brown Creeper | X | X | ||
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher | X | X | X | |
House Wren * | X | X | X | X |
Winter Wren | X | X | ||
Carolina Wren | X | X | X | X |
European Starling * | X | X | X | X |
Gray Catbird | X | X | X | |
Brown Thrasher | X | X | ||
Northern Mockingbird * | X | X | X | X |
Eastern Bluebird | X | X | X | X |
Veery | X | X | ||
Hermit Thrush | X | X | ||
Wood Thrush | X | X | ||
American Robin* | X | X | X | X |
Cedar Waxwing | X | X | X | X |
House Sparrow * | X | X | X | X |
House Finch | X | X | X | X |
Purple Finch | X | X | X | |
Pine Siskin | X | X | X | |
American Goldfinch | X | X | X | X |
Chipping Sparrow | X | X | X | X |
Fox Sparrow | X | X | ||
Dark-eyed Junco | X | X | X | |
White-crowned Sparrow | X | X | ||
White-throated Sparrow | X | X | X | |
Vesper Sparrow | X | |||
Savannah Sparrow | X | X | ||
Song Sparrow | X | X | X | X |
Lincoln’s Sparrow | X | |||
Swamp Sparrow | X | X | X | |
Eastern Towhee | X | X | X | X |
Yellow-breasted Chat | X | |||
Orchard Oriole | X | X | ||
Baltimore Oriole | X | X | X | |
Red-winged Blackbird * | X | X | X | X |
Brown-headed Cowbird | X | X | X | X |
Common Grackle | X | X | X | X |
Ovenbird | X | |||
Louisiana Waterthrush | X | |||
Northern Waterthrush | X | |||
Black-and-white Warbler | X | X | ||
Tennessee Warbler | X | X | ||
Nashville Warbler | X | X | ||
Kentucky Warbler | X | |||
Common Yellowthroat | X | X | X | |
American Redstart | X | X | X | |
Cape May Warbler | X | |||
Northern Parula | X | X | ||
Magnolia Warbler | X | X | ||
Bay-breasted Warbler | X | |||
Blackburnian Warbler | X | |||
Yellow Warbler | X | X | ||
Chestnut-sided Warbler | X | X | X | |
Blackpoll Warbler* | X | X | ||
Black-throated Blue Warbler | X | X | ||
Palm Warbler | X | X | ||
Pine Warbler* | X | X | ||
Yellow-rumped Warbler | X | X | X | |
Prairie Warbler | X | |||
Black-throated Green Warbler | X | |||
Canada Warbler | X | |||
Wilson’s Warbler | X | |||
Scarlet Tanager | X | X | ||
Northern Cardinal* | X | X | X | X |
Rose-breasted Grosbeak | X | |||
Blue Grosbeak | X | X | ||
Indigo Bunting | X | X | X | |
Dickcissel | X | X | X | |
* breeding records for these species |
Contributors: Chris Toscano, Jenny McClintock, Joanne Solem, Ed Huestis, Clayton Koontz.
- Silver-spotted Skipper
- Horace’s Duskywing
- Sachem
- Zabulon Skipper
- Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
- Spicebush Swallowtail
- Cabbage White
- Clouded Sulphur
- Orange Sulphur
- Gray Hairstreak
- Pearl Crescent
- Red Admiral
- Common Buckeye
- Red-spotted Purple
- Monarch
Contributors: Howard County Butterfly Survey, Jo Solem, Jim Wilkinson.
- Ebony Jewelwing
- Violet (Variable) Dancer
- Familiar Bluet
- Skimming Bluet
- Orange Bluet
- Fragile Forktail
- Eastern Forktail
- Common Green Darner
- Comet Darner
- Unicorn Clubtail
- Prince Baskettail
- Common Baskettail
- Calico Pennant
- Halloween Pennant
- Banded Pennant
- Common Pondhawk
- Slaty Skimmer
- Widow Skimmer
- Twelve-spotted Skimmer
- Blue Dasher
- Eastern Amberwing
- Common Whitetail
- Autumn Meadowhawk
- Carolina Saddlebags
- Black Saddlebags