Robin eye.
This evening when I stepped out with dog for a minute, I smelled and felt the pending return of the American Woodcock. I can almost hear them now, twittering wings scoping out wet spots between the piles of snow, their buzzy ageless calls of peent! just around the corner.
Here on the 44th parellel, they are, for me, the things that signal spring.
Beech Hill List
Beginning at 4:30 p.m., I hiked the open trail.
1. American Crow*
2. Pileated Woodpecker (v)
3. American Robin*
4. Northern Flicker
5. Black-capped Chickadee**
Elsewhere
6. Herring Gull
7. House Finch (v)
8. House Sparrow
9. Northern Cardinal (v)
10. American Goldfinch (v)
11. Rock Pigeon
12. Mallard
v = Voice only
*Also elsewhere
**Voice only elsewhere
Tags: American crow, American goldfinch, American robin, black-capped chickadee, herring gull, house finch, house sparrow, mallard, northern cardinal, northern flicker, pileated woodpecker, rock pigeon
