Birding

A Birder’s Playground

The Nielson Spearhead Center is an excellent place for birding year-round. The following is a list of birds observed at Spearhead Lake from previous caretakers and visitors.

Common Loon

Whie Pelican

Great Blue Heron

American Bittern

Mallard

Wood Duck

Common Merganswer

Red-breasted Merganser

Red-tailed Hawk

Broad-winged Hawk

Bald Eagle

Osprey

Ruffed Grouse

Forester’s Tern

Black Tern

Mourning Dove

Black-billed Cuckoo

Ruby-throated Hummingbird

Belted Kingfisher

Common Flicker

Red-headed Woodpecker

Yellow-bellied Sapsucker

Hairy Woodpecker

Eastern Kingbird

Great-Crested Flycatcher

Eastern Pheobe

Least Flycatcher

Eastern Wood Peewee

Olive-sided Flycatcher

Tree Swallow

Blue Jay

Common Raven

Common crow

Black-capped Chickadee

White-breasted Nuthatch

Red-breasted Nuthatch

Brown Creeper

Gray Catbird

Brown Thrasher

Swainson’s Thrush

Gray-cheeked Thrush

Veery

Ruby-crowned Kinglet

Cedar Waxwing

Solitary Vireo

Red-eyed Vireo

Black -and-white Warbler

Nashville Warbler

Yellow Warbler

Magnolia Warbler

Yellow-rumped Warbler

Blackburnian Warbler

Chestnut-sided Warbler

Blackpoll Warbler

Pine Warbler

Palm Warbler

Ovenbird

Mourning Warbler

Common Yellowthroat

American Redstart

Red-winged Blackbird

Northern Oriole

Common Grackle

Brown-headed Cowbird

Scarlet Tanager

Rose-breasted Grosbeak

Indigo Bunting

Purple Finch

Rufuous-sided Towhee

Dark-eyed Junco

Chipping Sparrow

White-throated Sparrow

Swamp Sparrow

Song Sparrow

Great-Horned Owl

Snowy Owl