Eastern towhee.
Gah. Busy, busy Monday. [Ending a fifteen-year business service—today!] But after some haze and clouds and brief snippets of sun and clouds, and the promise of more rain (on this rainiest year I can remember), I decided to check the weather radar about mid-afternoon. Sure enough, big rain coming. So Jack and I took off.
Chestnut-sided warbler.
Quick walk up a warm and cloudy and muggy sort of wooded Beech hill trail. Not so many mosquitos. Plenty of birds—although they were mostly staying hidden. Got toward the top of the hill when the first drops of rain began to fall. So we turned right around and came down the lower wooded trail and walked fast and got back to the truck before it really began to come down.
Actually, it never really began to come down. But we didn’t get too wet. And I got a photo or two.
Beech Hill List
Beginning at 2:30 p.m., I hiked the wooded trails.
1. Black-throated green warbler (v)
2. Ovenbird (v)
3. Red-eyed vireo (v)
4. Hermit thrush (v)
5. Chestnut-sided warbler
6. Veery
7. Black-and-white warbler (v)
8. Common yellowthroat** (v)
9. Gray catbird** (v)
10. Eastern wood-pewee (v)
11. American crow* (v)
12. American goldfinch (v)
13. Eastern towhee
14. American redstart** (v)
15. Northern flicker (v)
16. Yellow warbler** (v)
17. Black-capped chickadee
18. American robin** (v)
19. House finch** (v)
20. Scarlet tanager (v)
Elsewhere
21. Northern cardinal (v)
22. Eastern phoebe (v)
23. Herring gull
24. European starling
25. Mourning dove
v = Voice only
*Also elsewhere
**Voice only elsewhere
Tags: American crow, American goldfinch, American robin, black-and-white warbler, black-capped chickadee, black-throated green warbler, chestnut-sided warbler, common yellowthroat, eastern phoebe, eastern towhee, eastern wood-pewee, European starling, hermit thrush, herring gull, house finch, mourning dove, northern cardinal, northern flicker, ovenbird, red-eyed vireo, scarlet tanager, veery, yellow warbler
