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Posts Tagged ‘magnolia warbler’
Sunday, September 25th, 2011
 Black-throated green warbler. Monhegan List
(In no particular order.)
1. Nashville warbler
2. Magnolia warbler
3. Black-throated green warbler
4. Blackpoll warbler
5. Yellow-rumped warbler
6. Red-eyed vireo
7. American crow
8. Common raven
9. Osprey
10. Merlin
11. Peregrine falcon
12. Bald eagle
13. Cedar waxwing
14. Blue jay
15. Song sparrow
16. White-throated sparrow
17. Northern flicker
18. European starling
19. Common grackle
20. American goldfinch
21. Black-capped chickadee
22. Herring gull
23. Great black-backed gull
24. Northern gannet
25. Common eider
26. Double-crested cormorant
27. Sharp-shinned hawk
28. Black-crowned night heron
29. Mallard
30. Belted kingfisher
31. Northern cardinal
32. Rose-breasted grosbeak
33. Mourning dove
34. Greater yellowlegs
35. Eastern kingbird
36. Ruby-throated hummingbird
37. Northern mockingbird
38. Ring-necked pheasant
Also:
Harbor seal.
Tags: American crow, American goldfinch, bald eagle, belted kingfisher, black-capped chickadee, black-crowned night heron, black-throated green warbler, blackpoll warbler, blue jay, Cedar waxwing, common eider, common grackle, common raven, double-crested cormorant, eastern kingbird, European starling, greater yellowlegs, magnolia warbler, mallard, merlin, mourning dove, Nashville warbler, northern cardinal, northern flicker, northern gannet, northern mockingbird, osprey, peregrine falcon, reat black-backed gull, red-eyed vireo, rose-breasted grosbeak, ruby-throated hummingbird, sharp-shinned hawk, song sparroww, white-throated sparrow, yellow-rumped warbler
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Tuesday, May 24th, 2011
 Broad-winged hawk. Birds don’t sing much in the rain, I’ve noticed. Witness yesterday’s Beech Hill hike—just towhees and ovenbirds, mostly (with a couple exceptions). Quite an opposite experience today up there.
The day dawned a little damp but soon dried up. And warmed up. Oddly, my indoor rooms were much cooler than the humid outdoors. The usual house finches, house sparrows, crows. At one point in morning I looked up from my desk to see a pileated woodpecker light on a dead tree trunk near the parking lot and raced up for my camera. Soon as I stepped out onto the back deck, it flew off toward the south across the road.
 Beech Nut. And, lo, the sun emerged! That’s all I needed to head out cycling. Did my usual circuit—and heard birds’ voices everywhere. Yellow warblers, chestnut-sideds, parulas. Song sparrows and chipping sparrows. A red-winged blackbird near The Home Depot.
On my return in late afternoon, after wrapping up work a little early, I grabbed dog and we drove to the hill. By then the sun had gone hazy, but the air remained warm. Plenty of warblers singing. Chickadees. The usual cries of gulls. Veery and hermit thrush, towhee and catbird. About half way to the top along the upper wooded trail, we rounded a corner and a large bird flapped up off the trail and perched in a tree maybe a twenty-five yards away. A hawk, brown and white, eyeing us suspiciously. I snapped off a few photos and confirmed its ID later: a broadwing.
White-throats and song sparrows up toward the summit. And catbirds of course. Coming along the edge of an upper field, I heard the chatter and wingbeats of a humming bird that we’d apparently startled off some routine mission. Hiked up and over and heard Both a robin and a rose-breasted grosbeak singing down near the opposite parking lot—interesting to hear their vaguely similar songs together like that.
Coming back up, I spotted what appeared to be a hummingbird zipping about some brush on the upslope. Looked up that way through binoculars and finally saw its green sheen. Later, I heard the subtle dee-dee! notes of another hummer. Plenty on the hill this year. (Still no alder flycatchers, though. And only the one red-eyed vireo so far.)
Near the wood-edge, I watched a tree swallow fly over, chittering as it flew. Still muddy down the lower wooded trail.
 Caterpillars. Three mourning doves at the edge of South Street on our way back home. I saw these despite some discomfort from the black fly that flew directly into my eye during our hike. (They were out and biting.) Looked in the rear-view mirror and saw the little dead fly there, floating just above my lower eyelid. I tried not to blink the rest of the way—but it somehow ended up in the corner of my eye, where I managed to dab it away.
This evening, I watched the crows bed down. Then, again, I heard the late robins’ songs. And (again), in response, the single note of a nearby veery. And, finally, the crazy jumbling notes that an ovenbird sometimes makes—when alarmed, I suppose, or just having awakened from a nightmare—not very long before darkness fell.
Beech Hill List
Beginning at 5 p.m., I hiked all trails.
1. Black-throated green warbler (voice)
2. Ovenbird (voice)
3. Chestnut-sided warbler (voice)
4. Herring gull (voice)
5. American goldfinch (voice)
6. Black-capped chickadee
7. American redstart (voice)
8. Eastern towhee
9. White-throated sparrow
10. Common yellowthroat
11. Black-and-white warbler (voice)
12. Veery (voice)
13. Broad-winged hawk
14. Blue jay (voice)
15. Hermit thrush (voice)
16. Yellow warbler (voice)
17. American crow (voice)
18. Gray catbird
19. Ruby-throated hummingbird
20. Song sparrow
21. American robin
22. Rose-breasted grosbeak (voice)
23. Northern parula (voice)
24. Eastern phoebe
25. Magnolia warbler (voice)
26. Tree swallow
Elsewhere
27. House finch
28. House sparrow
29. Pileated woodpecker
30. Red-winged blackbird
31. European starling
32. Chipping sparrow
33. Mourning dove
34. Northern cardinal
Tags: American crow, American goldfinch, American redstart, American robin, black-and-white warbler, black-capped chickadee, black-throated green warbler, blue jay, broad-winged hawk, chestnut-sided warbler, chipping sparrow, common yellowthroat, eastern phoebe, eastern towhee, European starling, gray catbird, hermit thrush, herring gull, house finch, house sparrow, magnolia warbler, mourning dove, northern cardinal, northern parula, ovenbird, pileated woodpecker, red-winged blackbird, rose-breasted grosbeak, ruby-throated hummingbird, song sparrow, tree swallow, veery, white-throated sparrow, yellow warbler
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Sunday, May 22nd, 2011
 Ruby-throated hummingbird. When I first checked out the world this morning, it was dry. That was a switch. The dryness of the world prompted me to rouse Jack for a hike around Beech Hill. But first—wouldn’t you know?—I caught sight of a phoebe zipping silently away from the nest atop my back window. I guess my nest-abandonment worries were unfounded. (Yet again.) Sneaky little birds.
 Common yellowthroat. We descended the back stairs to the accompaniment of the song of the resident house finch. Also noticed a catbird out there (first at my place this year). Saw crows. Heard an ovenbird. And a titmouse.
No vehicles in the Rockville Street parking lot when we arrived—but plenty of warblers in the periphery. Again, in fact, the first several species on my list today were warblers. Also the voices of a robin, a blue-headed vireo, and gulls. A redstart singing near the little brook. A veery in the trees. The usual rose-breasted grosbeak.
As we came around the curve by the big glacial stones and on through the grove of poplars, I paused to scan the canopy; but when I began to walk again, Jack wasn’t ready to go. I looked to see him staring fixedly off into the undergrowth. I know by now to pay attention to such fixed dog stares and finally made out what he was so interested in: a hoary ol’ porcupine was lumbering slowly along about twenty feet off the trail. We stayed to watch it for a while (too much intervening foliage for a photo) before I advised him that porcupines were off-limits and we continued on our way.
As we ascended, the songs kept coming: black-and-white warbler, goldfinch, jay. At one point, I heard the screams of an osprey and looked up to see one carrying a fish on high—and another swooping low over the trees.
The mew! of a catbird, the chip of a white-throat, the liquid notes of a tree swallow. And soon I heard the call of my first Beech Hill waxwing of the season. Perhaps my concerns about a dearth of that species are also unfounded.
Coming around the turn through the upper fields, I heard the faint dee-dee! of a hummingbird—their subtle call of alarm—and we stopped. As I peered in the direction of the call (they’re hard to spot when perching), another one darted by and sat on a twig not far from us, clearly unaware. A female. I got a pretty decent photo.
 Ovenbird. After a day without savannah sparrows, I saw two this morning—but heard none singing. Must be that nesting time of year.
Heard a field sparrow, though, and a red-winged blackbird. Also a cowbird. And a grosbeak singing loudly again from down toward the Beech Hill Road parking lot.
On our return, soon after we entered the lower wooded trail, as we were walking slow, listening, the sound of wingbeats shot past us from behind, and a handsome male pileated woodpecker appeared on the trunk of a fallen tree not very far away. I remembered that my camera can record pretty decent videos and got about thirty seconds of it poking around. Also snapped a few photos.
Down in the deeper woods, I heard the chiming alternate call of a black-throated blue warbler—and then the whistles of a broad-winged hawk. I even spotted the hawk in the distance through the canopy.
Many good birds. A fruitful hike. But it wouldn’t be my last today.
 Pileated woodpecker. Because Jack and I met my friend Liz and her son, Daniel, for a midday stroll through the Ducktrap River Preserve—a place she’d visited for a bird walk last weekend (led by my friend Kristen) but where I’d never been. Again, we were greeted by warblers’ voices, along with the cries of a rising osprey. Black flies decided to swarm, too, which proved a challenge for us humans but no doubt kept the birds happy. Before long, I’d seen my first-of-year Wilson’s warbler. We heard a pair of ravens fly over, heard the drumming of a grouse, and heard the cries of a red-shouldered hawk. I also caught the rattle of a kingfisher down toward the river—another first-of-year bird for me.
As we came through a stretch of tall conifers, blackburnian warblers began to sing from the canopy. Quite a few of them, each with a slightly different very-high-pitched song. They’re such gorgeous little birds but so hard to see—although I think we each got at least a peek.
An hour or so in, with a least flycatcher calling nearby, I pointed out the song of a tanager coming from a wooded slope below us, but it was Daniel who spotted the bird. Also my first tanager of the year.
Not long after the black flies were joined by mosquitos, we decided to turn back. Right about then I heard a low barking call in the distance behind us. A faraway dog or a barred owl? We stopped, listened, and confirmed that, by golly, it was an owl.
 Scarlet tanager. In all, we counted thirty-one species along the Ducktrap today. Another very fruitful hike.
Back home, checking out the nuthatch cavity, I happened to spot a red blotch on the ground between the tree trunks up the back hill. I squinted, but it sat motionless. Some bit of wind-blown trash? Nope. It finally moved. A male cardinal.
And tonight, not long ago—under the first clear sky I’ve seen in more than a week—I heard the flight song of a woodcock.
Beech Hill List
Beginning at 9 a.m., I hiked all trails.
1. Ovenbird
2. Northern parula (voice)
3. Black-throated green warbler (voice)
4. Common yellowthroat
5. Chestnut-sided warbler
6. American robin
7. Blue-headed vireo (voice)
8. Herring gull
9. American redstart
10. Black-and-white warbler
11. Veery (voice)
12. Rose-breasted grosbeak (voice)
13. Blue jay (voice)
14. American goldfinch (voice)
15. White-throated sparrow
16. Osprey
17. Gray catbird
18. Hermit thrush (voice)
19. Tree swallow
20. Black-capped chickadee
21. Mourning dove (voice)
22. Cedar waxwing (voice)
23. Northern flicker (voice)
24. Yellow warbler (voice)
25. Ruby-throated hummingbird
26. Song sparrow
27. American crow (voice)
28. Savannah sparrow
29. Nashville warbler (voice)
30. Red-winged blackbird (voice)
31. Field sparrow (voice)
32. Great crested flycatcher (voice)
33. Chipping sparrow
34. Hairy woodpecker (voice)
35. Eastern phoebe
36. Brown-headed cowbird
37. Pileated woodpecker
38. Black-throated blue warbler (voice)
39. Broad-winged hawk
 Trillium at Ducktrap River Preserve. Ducktrap River Preserve
Beginning at 12 noon, I hiked the trail for a couple hours.
Chestnut-sided warbler
Northern parula
Common yellowthroat
Ovenbird
Osprey
Black-throated green warbler
Black-capped chickadee
Mourning dove
Rose-breasted grosbeak
40. Wilson’s warbler
41. Common raven
Veery
Blue jay
Hermit thrush
American robin
American goldfinch
Nashville warbler
41. Ruffed grouse
42. Magnolia warbler
43. Red-shouldered hawk
44. Least flycatcher
45. Blackburnian warbler
Black-and-white warbler
Northern flicker
46. Belted kingfisher
Blue-headed vireo
47. Purple finch
48. Scarlet tanager
49. White-breasted nuthatch
50. Barred owl
Eastern phoebe
Elsewhere
51. House finch
52. House sparrow
53. Tufted titmouse
54. Double-crested cormorant
55. European starling
56. Mallard
57. Common grackle
58. Northern cardinal
59. American woodcock
Tags: American crow, American goldfinch, American redstart, American robin, barred owl, belted kingfisher, black-and-white warbler, black-capped chickadee, black-throated blue warbler, black-throated green warbler, blackburnian warbler, blue jay, blue-headed vireo, broad-winged hawk, brown-headed cowbird, Cedar waxwing, chestnut-sided warbler, chipping sparrow, common grackle, common raven, common yellowthroat, double-crested cormorant, eastern phoebe, European starling, field sparrow, gray catbird, great crested flycatcher, hairy woodpecker, hermit thrush, herring gull, house finch, house sparrow, least flycatcher, magnolia warbler, mallard, mourning dove, Nashville warbler, northern cardinal, northern flicker, northern parula, osprey, ovenbird, pileated woodpecker, porcupine, purple finch, red-shouldered hawk, red-winged blackbird, rose-breasted grosbeak, ruby-throated hummingbird, ruffed grouse, savannah sparrow, scarlet tanager, song sparrow, tree swallow, tufted titmouse, veery, white-breasted nuthatch, white-throated sparrow, yellow warbler
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