In the time that I’ve been walking through Seagroves Farm Park, I’ve encountered 90 species of birds. This page details the birds I have seen as of December 22, 2021.

You can use this list to help you narrow down what you might see in the park.

Some explanation of the table columns:

• Species – The individual species of bird
• Occurrence – How common (or uncommon) the bird is (in season)
• Frequency – How often I expect to see the bird. If I’ve only seen a bird a limited number of times, I give the number [in square brackets].
• Season – When can you expect to see the bird.
• Where? – The map indicates the places where I most often see the bird.

A few additional notes about the maps:

• The color on the map indicates the season (Orange for summer, blue for winter, purple for year-round, and yellow for spring or fall migration).
• Some species, such as vultures or winter ducks cover the entire map—or the entire pond. Others, such as Juncos or White-throated Sparrows, only appear in specific locations.
• The maps includes portions of the Seagroves Farms townhouses (and the retention pond at the end of Haybarn Court). It’s not a part of Seagroves Park, proper, but my daily walks take me behind the townhouses and past the retention pond. I see and photograph many birds there. Most species I see there are the same as the birds I see around the pond, but because it’s a nice walk, I thought I would include it in the maps.

Ducks and Geese

Species	Occurrence	Frequency	Season	Where?
Mallard	Common	Often	Year-round
Bufflehead	Rare	[3-4]	Fall-Spring
Hooded Merganser	Infrequent	4-5/year	Winter
Ring-necked Duck	Rare	[4-5]	Fall-Spring
Canada Goose	Common	Often	Year-round

Cormorants

Species	Occurrence	Frequency	Season	Where?
Double-crested Cormorant	Occasional	1/month	Year-round

Herons and Bitterns

Species	Occurrence	Frequency	Season	Where?
Great-blue Heron	Occasional	1/month	Year-round
Green Heron	Common	Daily, in season	March-September

Vultures

Species	Occurrence	Frequency	Season	Where?
Black Vulture	Occasional	6/year	Year-round
Turkey Vulture	Occasional	1/month	Year-round

Raptors

Species	Occurrence	Frequency	Season	Where?
Osprey	Rare	[2]	Year-round
Bald Eagle	Occasional	1/month	Year-round
Red-shouldered Hawk	Very common	Daily	Year-round
Red-tailed Hawk	Occasional	6/year	Year-round
Cooper’s Hawk	Occasional	6/year	Year-round

Bald eagles tend to fly over the park (almost always in a south-to-north direction). On one remarkable occasion, an eagle alit in one of the trees near the picnic shelter, right as I was walking by.

Wading Birds

Species	Occurrence	Frequency	Season	Where?
Spotted Sandpiper	Occasional	Often, in season	Summer
Killdeer	Occasional	Often, in season	Summer
Pied-billed Grebe	Rare	1/week	Summer?

The Spotted Sandpiper arrived as a new species in the summer of 2021. I have no earlier records of it. We’ll have to see if it returns again.

When the park first opened, I noticed a Pied-billed Grebe that always appeared with some Mallards. I don’t know if it thought it was a Mallard, but it was always with them. After a year or so, it disappeared.

Gulls

Species	Occurrence	Frequency	Season	Where?
Ring-billed Gull	Frequent	Often	Winter

Pigeons and Doves

Species	Occurrence	Frequency	Season	Where?
Mourning Dove	Common	2-3/week	Year-round

Cuckoos

Species	Occurrence	Frequency	Season	Where?
Yellow-billed Cuckoo	Rare	[1]	Summer

Owls

Species	Occurrence	Frequency	Season	Where?
Great Horned Owl	Rare	None(*)	Year-round
Barred Owl	Occasional	1/month	Year-round, less common in summer

(*) I used to hear Great Horned Owls occasionally late at night, before Seagroves was built. I haven’t heard one in a while (but I’m not out at midnight walking a dog anymore).

Swifts

Species	Occurrence	Frequency	Season	Where?
Chimney Swift	Common, in season	1/week	Year-round

Hummingbirds

Species	Occurrence	Frequency	Season	Where?
Ruby-throated Hummingbird	Common, in season	2-3/week	Summer

Kingfishers

Species	Occurrence	Frequency	Season	Where?
Belted Kingfisher	Occasional	3-4/month	Year-round

Woodpeckers

Species	Occurrence	Frequency	Season	Where?
Northern Flicker	Common	3-4/week	Year-round
Red-bellied Woodpecker	Common	Daily	Year-round
Downy Woodpecker	Common	2-3/week	Year-round
Hairy Woodpecker	Common	2-3/week	Year-round
Pileated Woodpecker	Infrequent	2/year	Year-round
Red-headed Woodpecker	Rare	[1]	Year-round
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker	Common, in season	1-2/week	Winter

Kestrels

Species	Occurrence	Frequency	Season	Where?
American Kestrel	Rare	[1]	?

Tyrant Flycatchers

Species	Occurrence	Frequency	Season	Where?
Eastern Phoebe	Common	2-3/week	Year-round
Eastern Kingbird	Common, in season	Daily	Summer
Great Crested Flycatcher	Common, in season	Daily	Summer

Vireos

Species	Occurrence	Frequency	Season	Where?
Red-eyed Vireo	Infrequent, in season	[2]	Summer
White-eyed Vireo	Infrequent, in season	2-3/month	Summer

Jays, Crows, and their allies

Species	Occurrence	Frequency	Season	Where?
Blue Jay	Common	Daily	Year-round
Fish Crow	Common, in season	Daily	Summer
American Crow	Common	Daily	Year-round

Swallows

Species	Occurrence	Frequency	Season	Where?
Bank Swallow	Infrequent	2-3/month	Summer
Tree Swallow	Irregular(*)	Daily, in season	Summer

(*) In the summer of 2021, Tree Swallows nested in the southeast Bluebird box. I hadn’t seen them around the pond in previous years.

Chickadees and their allies

Species	Occurrence	Frequency	Season	Where?
Tufted Titmouse	Common	Daily	Year-round
Carolina Chickadee	Common	Daily	Year-round

Nuthatches and Creepers

Species	Occurrence	Frequency	Season	Where?
White-breasted Nuthatch	Common	Daily	Year-round
Red-breasted Nuthatch	Rare	[1]	Winter	(*)
Brown-headed Nuthatch	Common	2-3/week	Year-round
Brown Creeper	Irregular	2-3/week	Winter

(*) A few years ago, one would regularly appear at one of our feeders.

Wrens

Species	Occurrence	Frequency	Season	Where?
Carolina Wren	Common	Daily	Year-round
House Wren	Common, in season	2-3/week	Summer	(*)

(*) I sometimes see one in my neighborhood, when I start my walk. But the location doesn’t appear on the map.

Gnatcatchers and Kinglets

Species	Occurrence	Frequency	Season	Where?
Ruby-crowned Kinglet	Common, in season	Daily	Winter
Golden-crowned Kinglet	Occasional, in season	2-3/month	Winter
Blue-grey Gnatcatcher	Occasional, in season	2-3/month	Summer

Old World Warblers, Thrushes, and their allies

Species	Occurrence	Frequency	Season	Where?
American Robin	Common (occasional in summer)	Daily	Year-round
Eastern Bluebird	Common	Daily	Year-round
Hermit Thrush	Infrequent	5-6/year	Year-round
Wood Thrush	Occasional, in season	4-5/month	Summer

Mimids

Species	Occurrence	Frequency	Season	Where?
Northern Mockingbird	Common	2-3/week	Year-round
Brown Thrasher	Common	1-2/week	Year-round
Gray Catbird	Common, in season	Daily, in season	Summer

Starlings

Species	Occurrence	Frequency	Season	Where?
European Starling	Common, occasional in summer	2-3/week	Year-round

Waxwings

Species	Occurrence	Frequency	Season	Where?
Cedar Waxwing	Irregular, in season	1-2/month	Winter

Wood Warblers

Species	Occurrence	Frequency	Season	Where?
American Redstart	Infrequent	4-5/month	Summer
Black and White Warbler	Occasional	2-3/month	Year-round
Black-throated Blue Warbler	Rare	[1]	Migratory
Common Yellowthroat	Irregular	2-3/year	Year-round
Hooded Warbler	Rare	[1]	Migratory
Louisiana Waterthrush	Rare	[1]	Summer
Magnolia Warbler	Rare	[2]	Migratory
Myrtle Warbler	Common, in season	Daily	Winter
Northern Parula	Rare	[1]	Migratory
Pine Warbler	Occasional	1-2/week	Year-round

Emberizine Sparrows and their allies

Species	Occurrence	Frequency	Season	Where?
Dark-eyed Junco	Common, in season	5-6/week	Winter
Eastern Towhee	Common	Daily	Year-round
Chipping Sparrow	Common	4-5/week	Year-round
Song Sparrow	Common	3-4/week	Year-round
White-throated Sparrow	Common, in season	3-4/week	Winter
Fox Sparrow	Rare	[1]	Winter

Tanagers, Cardinals, and their allies

Species	Occurrence	Frequency	Season	Where?
Summer Tanager	Rare	[1]	Summer
Northern Cardinal	Common	Daily in winter and breeding; hides in late summer	Year-round
Rose-breasted Grosbeak	Rare	[1]	Migratory	(*)

(*) My single sighting of a Rose-breasted Grosbeak was in my back yard. However, I’m close enough to the park that I think it counts as a bird you might possibly see at Seagroves.

Icterids

Species	Occurrence	Frequency	Season	Where?
Red-wing Blackbird	Common	5-6/week in winter; less frequent in summer	Year-round
Common Grackle	Common	4-5/week	Year-round
Brown-headed Cowbird	Common, in season	Daily	Summer
Baltimore Oriole	Rare	[1]	Migratory

Red-wing Blackbirds and Grackles tend to fly over the park, rather than alight, although I’ve see both in trees in and around the park.

Finches

Species	Occurrence	Frequency	Season	Where?
Goldfinch	Common	4-5/week	Year-round
House Finch	Common	Daily	Year-round
Pine Siskin	Occasional, in season	2-3/week	Winter