Nice cool, breezy, sunny morning. Lots of bird activity—highlights being a singing Northern Parula, and a Philadelphia Vireo that appeared in the summit spruce grove.
Met a fellow birder and had a nice chat about photography.
Got home and put a tonneau cover on my pickup. (Just threw that in for factual authenticity.)
Beech Hill List Beginning at 715 a.m., I hiked the open trail.
1. Red-eyed Vireo** (v) 2. American Crow* 3. Chestnut-sided Warbler 4. Song Sparrow** 5. Chipping Sparrow* 6. Ovenbird (v) 7. Common Yellowthroat 8. Alder Flycatcher (v) 9. Mourning Dove* 10. Gray Catbird 11. Eastern Towhee 12. Yellow Warbler (v) 13. Field Sparrow (v) 14. American Goldfinch** 15. White-breasted Nuthatch (v) 16. Tufted Titmouse (v) 17. Eastern Phoebe 18. Eastern Towhee 19. Cedar Waxwing 20. Veery** (v) 21. Northern Parula (v) 22. Red-breasted Nuthatch 23. Philadelphia Vireo 24. Black-capped Chickadee (v) 25. Common Raven (v) 26. Barn Swallow 27. Purple Finch (v) 28. Rose-breasted Grosbeak (v) 29. American Redstart (v)
Elsewhere
30. Herring Gull
v = Voice only *Also elsewhere **Voice only elsewhere
Full sun and humid this morning. Birds feeding fledglings all over the place. Also new plants and flowers and a monarch in the milkweed. More ripening blueberries, too.
Beech Hill List Beginning at 7:15 a.m., I hiked the open trail.
Beech Hill List Beginning at 10:45 am, I hiked the open trail.
Yellowthroat in fog.
Rained from early until mid-morning, pouring for some of it. But then Jack and I took our daily hike up a muddy foggy hill, and we encountered a plethora of bird families there.
Yep, the birds were definitely out. A bunch of ’em, too—way more than I’d expected. All their vocal interactions, for some reason, got me thinking (not for the first time) about clear communication. Modern humans don’t seem to have a whole lot of this, but birds sure do.
