A storm’s a-comin’ tomorrow. A nor’easter. We’ll get eight or ten or twelve inches of snow, so they stay. But this morning was calm, cool, overcast, and chock full of birds.
Right away you could tell the birds were thinking “spring.” Singing cardinals, chickadees, titmice. Drumming woodpeckers. Flocks of geese flying north, and a first-of-year marsh hawk. This coming snow might be one of the last of the year before things begin greening up.
We shall see.
Beech Hill List
Beginning at 7:15 a.m. (8:15 stupid DST), I hiked all trails.
1. Northern Cardinal** (v)
2. Tufted Titmouse (v)
3. Black-capped Chickadee**
4. Dark-eyed Junco (v)
5. Downy Woodpecker
6. American Crow*
7. Red-breasted Nuthatch•• (v)
8. White-breasted Nuthatch
9. American Robin (v)
10. American Goldfinch** (v)
11. Eastern Bluebird
12. Canada Goose
13. Pileated Woodpecker
14. Herring Gull*
15. Northern Harrier†
Elsewhere
16. Mourning Dove
(v) Voice only
*Also elsewhere
**Voice only elsewhere
†First-of-year
Tags: American crow, American robin, black-capped chickadee, Canada goose, dark-eyed junco, downy woodpecker, eastern bluebird, herring gull, mourning dove, northern cardinal, northern harrier, pileated woodpecker, red-breasted nuthatch, tufted titmouse, white-breasted nuthatch
