June Challenge Results

Photo & Video Sharing by SmugMug
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.

Photo & Video Sharing by SmugMug
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.

Photo & Video Sharing by SmugMug
Limpkin
Photo & Video Sharing by SmugMug
Bald Eagle
Photo & Video Sharing by SmugMug
Red-shouldered Hawk
Photo & Video Sharing by SmugMug
Crested Caracara
Photo & Video Sharing by SmugMug
Eastern Meadowlark
Photo & Video Sharing by SmugMug
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

Comments