Pileated Woodpecker (male).

Got to the hill early this nippy morning. Temps of about 10 or 12 degrees (F) when first I looked, but mostly cloudless and only a slight breeze. Alas, there was early mowing going on up there, and the only birds I got a look at were in a distant flock of redpolls.

However, quite a few birds were poking about in and around town: a robin out back, finches and a nuthatch and a chickadee out front, even a pileated woodpecker plucking cherries from a tree along rushing Route 1.

The food’s just where you can find it, I guess.

Beech Hill List
Beginning at 8 a.m., I hiked the open trail.

1. American Crow* (v)
2. Common Redpoll

Elsewhere

3. House Finch
4. White-breasted Nuthatch
5. Black-capped Chickadee
6. American Robin
7. Herring Gull
8. Rock Pigeon
9. Pileated Woodpecker

v = Voice only
*Also elsewhere