17 February 2025

Archive for February, 2015

Pleasant day

Sunday, February 22nd, 2015
American Robin, Beech Hill Preserve, Rockport, Maine, 22 February 2015.

American Robin.

Kind of a balmy day. Kind of a balmy, birdy day. Right away I heard the voices of a couple species that’d been silent for weeks—cardinal and jay—and during my Beech Hill hike with dog, I saw a little collection of Bohemian Waxwings.

Dreamlike frosting, Beech Hill Preserve, Rockport, Maine, 22 February 2015.

Dreamlike frosting.

Also saw three Yellow-Rumped Warblers up there, and those Canadian robins are still abundant.

That last snow that blew in from, seemingly, the southwest caused some interesting frosty effects on natural and artificial objects alike.

I helped push a van out of a slippery spot.

All in all a pretty pleasant day.

Beech Hill List
Beginning at 12 p.m., I hiked the open trail.

1. Bohemian Waxwing
2. American Robin
3. Black-capped Chickadee**
4. White-breasted Nuthatch**
5. Hairy Woodpecker
6. American Crow*
7. American Flicker
8. Yellow-rumped Warbler
9. Blue Jay** (v)

Elsewhere

10. Northern Cardinal (v)
11. House Finch (v)
12. Herring Gull

v = Voice only
*Also elsewhere
**Voice only elsewhere

 

Spring song

Saturday, February 21st, 2015
Red-tailed Hawk, Beech Hill Preserve, Rockort, Maine, 21 February 2015.

Red-tailed Hawk.

Tonight, as I write this, it’s snowing again—perhaps mixed with rain. But this morning we had brilliant sun and a deep blue sky and a Red-tailed Hawk perched high in a pine out back of my place as a House Finch sang to high heaven from the bare tips of a big oak. In fact, the finch must’ve become aware of the hawk, at one point, because it quit singing and began to chip instead.

American Robins, Beech Hill Preserve, Rockort, Maine, 21 February 2015.

American Robins.

A singing yardbird means, to me, that spring is exactly one month away.

Late high up Beech Hill. We were the only ones up there as a few flake started to fly in a strong southerwesterly wind.

Hardly windy tonight at all.

Beech Hill List
Beginning at 4 p.m., I hiked the open trail.

1. American Robin*
2. Northern Flicker

Elsewhere

3. House Finch
4. Red-tailed Hawk
5. Black-capped Chickadee (v)
6. American Crow
7. Herring Gull
8. European Starling
9. Rock Pigeon

v = Voice only
*Also elsewhere

 

Saw a hawk

Friday, February 20th, 2015
Red-tailed Hawk, Beech Hill Preserve, Rockport, Maine, 19 February 2015.

Red-tailed Hawk.

Saw a hawk today.

Beech Hill List
Beginning at 1:30 p.m., I hiked the open trail.

1. Black-capped Chickadee**
2. American Robin*
3. American Crow*
4. Yellow-rumped Warbler (v)
5. Red-tailed Hawk
6. Hairy Woodpecker (v)

Elsewhere

7. Herring Gull
8. Rock Pigeon

v = Voice only
*Also elsewhere
**Voice only elsewhere

 

 
Bird Report is a (sometimes intermittent) record of the birds I encounter while hiking, see while driving, or spy outside my window. —Brian Willson



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