Birds
Note that songbirds are being killed off by a blight this summer. Pennsylvanians have been advised to remove bird feeders and baths to prevent spread. The diversity may seem lower because the birds aren’t as visible.
- Junco
- Chickadee
- Catbird
- Eastern Towhee
- Eastern Phoebe
- Carolina Wren
- American Crow
- Raven
- Goldfinch (they like eating unripe salsify seed heads)
- Starlings (raised-released)
- Ruby-throated hummingbirds
Mammals
- Groundhogs
- Gray Squirrel
- Chipmunks
- Whitetail Deer
- Vole
Invertebrates
- Cicadas!
- Mosquitoes
- Wooly aphids
- F**ing Deer Ticks (I had Lyme this year)
- Great Spangled Frittilaries everywhere!
- Cabbage White
- Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
- Eastern Black Swallowtail
- Eastern Tailed Blue
- Wolf spiders
- Daddy Longlegs
- Ichneumon wasps
- Tortoiseshell beetle
- Cucumber beetles (on peppers, not cukes)
- No monarchs as of July 20.
- Black flies, bottle, flies, hover flies
- Whitetail dragonfly and a similar darker colored one.
- Japanese Beetles
- Bumble bee species
- Honeybee
- Carpenter bee
- Carpenter ants in the woods, and small black ants in the garden.