First t-shirt day of the year, mosquitos be damned! A nice, warm, sunny morning with temperatures in the 70s (F). Birds were quiet (nesting) but active (food). Got a few photos. Woo-hoo!
Beech Hill List Beginning at 8:15 a.m., I hiked all trails.
Fun morning, Mostly sun, lots of safety gear And plenty of birds int the fringes. You have to work for an ID at this time of year, in this ecosystem, but I’ll just look forwar to trying.
1. Northern Cardinal** (v) 2. Red-eyed Vireo** (v) 3. Black-throated Green Warbler (v) 4. Common Yellowthroat** 5. American Goldfinch (V) 6. Tufted Titmouse (v) 7. American Redstart (v) 8. Hermit Thrush (v) 9. Black-and-white warbler 10. Chestnut-sided Warbler (v) 11. Pileated Woodpecker (v) 12. Veery** 13. Gray Catbird (v) 14. Eastern Towhee88 (v) 15. Eastern Wood-pewee 16. Alder Flycatcher 17. Nashville Warbler (v) 18. Song Sparrow** 19. Eastern Phoebe* 20. Tree Swallow 21. Field Sparrow (v) 22. Great Crested Flycatcher** 23. American Crow* 24. Common Raven (v) 25. Savannah Sparrow 26. Ovenbird** 27. Scarlet Tanager (v) 28. Least Flycatcher (v)
Elsewhere
29. House Finch (v) 30. Chipping Sparrow 31. Herring Gull
v = Voice only *Also elsewhere **Voice only elsewhere
A gray morning, then a few snippets of sun, then damp an overcast. Freshets and rivulets were busy carrying the water from yesterday’s rain down to the sea.
Saw quite a few birds, but nothing like fully fair days in June. Still wet from rain, muddy, and fun as heck.
Beech Hill List Beginning at 9 a.m., I hike the open trail.
1. Ovenbird (v) 2. Red-eyed Vireo** (v) 3. Black-throated Green Warbler (v) 4. Tufted Titmouse (v) 5. Common Yellowthroat** (v) 6. Chestnut-sided Warbler 7. American Redstart (v) 8. Hermit Thrush (v) 9. Eastern Towhee 10. Gray Catbird 11. Eastern Wood-pewee (v) 12. Yellow warbler (v) 13. Alder Flycatcher (v) 14. Veery (v) 15. Black-capped Chickadee** 16. Song Sparrow** (v) 17. Tree Swallow 18. Cedar Waxwing 19. Eastern Phoebe* 20. Field Sparrow (v) 21. American Crow* 22. Northern Flicker 23. Least Flycatcher (v) 24. American Goldfinch (v) 25. Purple Finch (v)
Elsewhere
26. Chipping Sparrow 27. American Robin 28. European Starling 29. Herring Gull 30. Rock Pigeon
v = Voice only *Also elsewhere **Voice only elsewhere
Under an overcast sky, before the rain, Sarah and I hiked up through the woods—and topped yesterday’s number of species. On the way back down, in the lower woodlands, we stood for a while as nearly a dozen species called and flitted and sang.
I figured all the activity was an attempt to get things done before the rain.
Beech Hill List Beginning at 10:30 a.m., I hiked all trails.
