Valley Water Mill is a special place for birders, just last Sunday, 13 birders gathered for a Big Sit and spotted the following birds. For more information on birding in the Ozarks, check out Greater Ozarks Audubon Society’s website HERE.

Canada Goose  2
Gadwall  1
Blue-winged Teal  3
Pied-billed Grebe  1
Double-crested Cormorant  1
Great Blue Heron  3
Green Heron  1
Turkey Vulture  6
Red-shouldered Hawk  1
Broad-winged Hawk  2
Spotted Sandpiper  1
Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon)  1
Mourning Dove  4
Barred Owl  1
Chimney Swift  1
Ruby-throated Hummingbird  1
Red-bellied Woodpecker  2
Downy Woodpecker  2
Pileated Woodpecker  1
American Kestrel  1
Eastern Phoebe  2
Eastern Kingbird  2
Blue Jay  4
American Crow  5
Fish Crow  2
Northern Rough-winged Swallow  6
Tree Swallow  3
Barn Swallow  1
Cliff Swallow  1
Carolina Chickadee  6
Tufted Titmouse  5
White-breasted Nuthatch  2
Carolina Wren  2
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher  10
Ruby-crowned Kinglet  1
Eastern Bluebird  3
Swainson’s Thrush  5
American Robin  4
Northern Mockingbird  1
European Starling  8
Louisiana Waterthrush  1
Tennessee Warbler  1
Orange-crowned Warbler  1
Nashville Warbler  2
Northern Parula  4
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle)  10
Field Sparrow  1
White-crowned Sparrow  1
White-throated Sparrow  6
Summer Tanager  1
Northern Cardinal  12
Indigo Bunting  1
Red-winged Blackbird  5
Common Grackle  8
Brown-headed Cowbird  10
Baltimore Oriole  1
House Finch  3
American Goldfinch  14
House Sparrow  4

View this checklist online at http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S36248052

Pictures below from Audubon Society website.