June Challenge Results

Prothonotary Warbler

June Challenge is officially over. During last year's June Challenge, I logged 80 species for Seminole County; this year I ended up with 96, including a Graylag Goose, which is not the FOS list. I was hoping to hit 100 species, but I really didn't expect that to be possible.  I was away in MD and VA for a week, and even if I were here the whole month, I thought I'd have to get pretty lucky to hit the century mark.  So I'm extremely happy with 96.  I added 17 species that I didn't find last year, so I'm pretty happy about that too.

Downy Woodpecker

I've shown pictures of most of these birds in previous posts from this month, though for this post I used photos of these birds in different poses, so they aren't the exact same images.

Limpkin

Bald Eagle

Red-shouldered Hawk

Crested Caracara

Eastern Meadowlark

Carolina Chickadee

In the list below, I put an asterisk (*) by birds I didn't see last year and a double asterisk (**) by those I'd never seen before in Seminole Co.

1. Black-bellied Whistling-Duck
2. Graylag Goose (Domestic type-not ABA countable)*
3. Canada Goose (feral)*
4. Muscovy Duck (Domestic type)
5. Wood Duck
6. Mallard (Domestic type)
7. Mottled Duck
8. Northern Bobwhite
9. Wild Turkey*
10. Pied-billed Grebe
11. Wood Stork
12. Double-crested Cormorant
13. Anhinga
14. American White Pelican*
15. Least Bittern*
16. Great Blue Heron
17. Great Egret
18. Snowy Egret
19. Little Blue Heron
20. Tricolored Heron
21. Cattle Egret
22. Green Heron
23. Black-crowned Night-Heron*
24. Yellow-crowned Night-Heron**
25. White Ibis
26. Glossy Ibis
27. Roseate Spoonbill
28. Black Vulture
29. Turkey Vulture
30. Osprey
31. Swallow-tailed Kite
32. Cooper's Hawk
33. Bald Eagle
34. Red-shouldered Hawk
35. Short-tailed Hawk*
36. Red-tailed Hawk
37. Purple Gallinule
38. Common Gallinule
39. American Coot
40. Limpkin
41. Sandhill Crane
42. Killdeer
43. Least Tern
44. Rock Pigeon
45. Eurasian Collared-Dove
46. White-winged Dove
47. Mourning Dove
48. Common Ground-Dove
49. Yellow-billed Cuckoo*
50. Great Horned Owl*
51. Barred Owl*
52. Common Nighthawk
53. Chuck-will's-widow*
54. Chimney Swift
55. Ruby-throated Hummingbird
56. Red-bellied Woodpecker
57. Downy Woodpecker
58. Northern Flicker
59. Pileated Woodpecker
60. Crested Caracara
61. Acadian Flycatcher*
62. Great Crested Flycatcher
63. Loggerhead Shrike
64. White-eyed Vireo
65. Yellow-throated Vireo
66. Red-eyed Vireo
67. Blue Jay
68. American Crow
69. Fish Crow
70. Purple Martin
71. Barn Swallow
72. Carolina Chickadee
73. Tufted Titmouse
74. Brown-headed Nuthatch
75. Carolina Wren
76. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
77. Eastern Bluebird
78. Northern Mockingbird
79. Brown Thrasher
80. European Starling
81. Prothonotary Warbler*
82. Common Yellowthroat
83. Northern Parula
84. Pine Warbler
85. Eastern Towhee
86. Bachman's Sparrow*
87. Summer Tanager*
88. Northern Cardinal
89. Indigo Bunting*
90. Red-winged Blackbird
91. Eastern Meadowlark
92. Common Grackle
93. Boat-tailed Grackle
94. Brown-headed Cowbird
95. House Finch
96. House Sparrow