Rained a lot last night. Like three-plus inches. Even had a little drip-drip-drip roof leak over the kitchen stove. This morning the rain tapered off in time for a quick hike with dog. Didn’t expect a lot of birds but was (as usual) pleasantly surprised.
Highlight was perhaps the (apparently) solitary male towhee just sitting on a stone, a little waterlogged. Love those guys.
Also love the various other species I spied (or heard). Nothing too exotic—just a day made for thrushes. One of my most favorite kinds of days.
Beech Hill List Beginning at 9:45 a.m., I hiked the open trail—and then some.
Fog thicker than yesterday morning. Jewel-like droplets on everything. Too dim in the bottomlands to get many decent photo, but the thrushes were leery of dog and me. Also one particular chickadee. And ovenbirds.
It’s nice to get so far in the year that you know what’s nesting where.
Beech Hill List Beginning at 8 a.m., I hiked all trails.
Fog first thing, a deep overcast. Birds weren’t talking much, but neither were they silent. Heard an alternate cuckoo call up in the area where I nabbed a photo of one the other day. Got a photo of a yellowthroat.
A low-key but inspiring morning.
Beech Hill List Beginning at 8 a.m., I hiked all trails.
1. Red-eyed Vireo 2. Ovenbird (v) 3. American Redstart (v) 4. Black-throated Green Warbler (v) 5. Chestnut-sided Warbler** 6. Common Yellowthroat** 7. Veery 8. Eastern Wood-pewee (v) 9. Black-capped Chickadee (v) 10. Eastern Towhee (v) 11. Gray Catbird 12. Black-and-white Warbler (v) 13. Nashville Warbler (v) 14. American Crow* 15. Northern Flicker 16. American Goldfinch** 17. Alder Flycatcher 18. Field Sparrow (v) 19. Song Sparrow* 20. Yellow Warbler 21. Great Crested Flycatcher (v) 22. Tree Swallow 23. Eastern Phoebe (v) 24. Chipping Sparrow (v) 25. American Robin* 26. Black-billed Cuckoo (v) 27. Tufted Titmouse (v) 28. Hermit Thrush (v) 29. Black-throated Blue Warbler 30. Least Flycatcher (v)
Elsewhere
31. Mourning Dove 32. Herring Gull 33. European Starling 34. Rock Pigeon 35. House Sparrow 36. Blue Jay (v)
v = Voice only *Also elsewhere **Voice only elsewhere
