Yellow warbler.
Quick early hike up and down the wooded trails on a cloudy morning. Stopped for a couple or three waves of little birds—including another singing blackpoll and a little ruby-crowned kinglet. Catbirds are getting bold, and redstarts are suddenly everywhere. As we were getting back to the pickup, I heard (and saw) a loon flying swiftly overhead.
American redstart.
Returned in early afternoon to the open trails. By then it had turned sunny. Siesta time for most birds, but a particular yellow warbler had me craning my neck for about ten minutes, trying to spot it in the bustin’-out leaves. Finally got a couple photos.
Cloudy, sunny, windy, warmish, coolish. Spring in Maine.
Beech Hill List
Beginning at 6:15 a.m., I hiked the wooded trails; beginning at 2:15 p.m., I walked the open trail.
1. Common yellowthroat**
2. Ovenbird**
3. Chestnut-sided warbler**
4. Black-throated green warbler**
5. White-breasted nuthatch
6. Blue jay (v)
7. Tufted titmouse** (v)
8. Eastern towhee
9. Black-and-white warbler**
10. Northern parula
11. Red-eyed vireo
12. Rose-breasted grosbeak (v)
13. American crow*
14. Black-capped chickadee** (v)
15. Gray catbird**
16. Blackpoll warbler (v)
17. American redstart**
18. Veery (v)
19. Least flycatcher
20. Mourning dove*
21. Nashville warbler
22. Ruby-crowned kinglet
23. White-throated sparrow
24. Yellow warbler**
25. Field sparrow (v)
26. American goldfinch (v)
27. American robin*
28. Hermit thrush (v)
29. Common loon
30. Tree swallow (v)
31. Savannah sparrow
32. Great crested flycatcher (v)
33. Eastern phoebe (v)
34. Purple finch (v)
Elsewhere
35. House finch
36. Song sparrow
37. European starling
38. Herring gull
39. Rock pigeon
40. Laughing gull (v)
41. Osprey (v)
42. Northern mockingbird
v = Voice only
*Also elsewhere
**Voice only elsewhere
Tags: American crow, American goldfinch, American redstart, American robin, black-and-white warbler, black-capped chickadee, black-throated green warbler, blackpoll warbler, blue jay, chestnut-sided warbler, common loon, common yellowthroat, eastern phoebe, eastern towhee, European starling, field sparrow, gray catbird, great crested flycatcher, hermit thrush, herring gull, house finch, laughing gull, least flycatcher, mourning dove, Nashville warbler, northern mockingbird, northern parula, osprey, ovenbird, purple finch, red-eyed vireo, rock pigeon, rose-breasted grosbeak, ruby-crowned kinglet, savannah sparrow, song sparrow, tree swallow, tufted titmouse, veery, white-breasted nuthatch, white-throated sparrow, yellow warbler
