Oak.
“Miserable” is a word that, to me, describes the feeling I get when I’ve had a cold for a while and my nose is runny and my nasal passages hurt and there’s nothing I can do about it but take a hike up a hill where chill, wind-whipped drizzle lashes my face and blurs my eyes and dampens my camera. Less miserable, surely, than I can imagine being. Especially when I consider that a good dog is up there hiking with me and a couple little birds are flitting about the branches of the dripping trees.
Beech Hill List
Beginning at 3:15 p.m., I hiked the open trail.
1. Brown creeper
2. Black-capped chickadee
Elsewhere
3. American crow
4. Herring gull
Tags: American crow, black-capped chickadee, brown creeper, herring gull
