Eastern towhee (juvenile)
Another in a string of lovely days. Also, a Friday. Feeling a lot better after nearly four weeks recovering from my bike crash—so well, in fact, that I decided to take a twenty-mile ride this afternoon. And I loved it.
Common yellowthroat (young male).
Late to the hill with Jack, but birds were posing for a change. Yellowthroats, for instance, and a whole slew of towhees, gawky teenagers and alert adults, that scattered as we were returning down the sloping trail. I’d stopped to chat with a fellow hiker and was perhaps a bit too eager to point out all the shy, secretive birds around us: towhee, song sparrow, waxwing, catbird.
Slept well tonight.
Beech Hill List
Beginning at 5:30 p.m., I hiked the open trail.
1. Blue jay** (v)
2. American goldfinch**
3. American crow*
4. Common yellowthroat
5. Cedar waxwing**
6. Mourning dove
7. Song sparrow
8. Gray catbird (v)
9. Savannah sparrow
10. Eastern towhee
Elsewhere
11. Herring gull
12. Black-capped chickadee (v)
13. Osprey (v)
14. Turkey vulture
15. Rock pigeon
16. Ring-billed gull
v = Voice only
*Also elsewhere
**Voice only elsewhere
Tags: American crow, American goldfinch, black-capped chickadee, blue jay, Cedar waxwing, common yellowthroat, eastern towhee, gray catbird, herring gull, mourning dove, osprey, ring-billed gull, rock pigeon, savannah sparrow, song sparrow, turkey vulture
