6 April 2026

Dramatic Skies

March 2nd, 2017
Trail illuminated, Beech Hill Preserve, Rockport, Maine, 02 March 2017.

Trail illuminated.

Herring Gull, Beech Hill Preserve, Rockport, Maine, 02 March 2017.

Herring Gull.

Beech Hill List
Beginning at 8:30 a.m., I hiked the open trail.

1. American Crow*
2. Black-capped Chickadee (v)
3. Northern Cardinal (v)
4. White-breasted Nuthatch (v)
5. American Goldfinch (v)
6. Mourning Dove (v)
7. Herring Gull*
8. Purple Finch
9. Downy Woodpecker (v)

Elsewhere

10. European Starling

v = Voice only
*Also elsewhere
**Voice only elsewhere

 

Mud and Wind and Fog

March 1st, 2017
American Robin, Beech Hill Preserve, Rockport, Maine, 01 March, 2017.

American Robin.

First, underfoot,
beyond remnant underfoot ice
was mud, and then

We ascended through
a thick, drippy, fragrant fog—
fog being blown

By a strong wind.
stronger was the wind than ever
I imagined.

Beech Hill List
Beginning at 9:45 a.m., I hiked the open trail.

1. American Robin
2. American Crow*
3. Black-capped Chickadee

Elsewhere

4. Herring Gull
5. Mourning Dove
6. Rock Pigeon

v = Voice only
*Also elsewhere

Siskins

February 28th, 2017
Pine Siskin, Beech Hill Preserve, Rockport, Maine, 28 February 2017.

Pine Siskin.

I don’t encounter a lot of Pine Siskins. Which would explain how suddenly my ears perked up to the sound of them at Beech Hill this morning. Now, at least, I think I can ID them from their crazy voices.

(Also heard a first-of-year Red-winged Blackbird this morning.)

Beech Hill List
Beginning at 8:30 a.m., I hiked the open trail.

1. American Crow*
2. Black-capped Chickadee
3. Northern Cardinal** (v)
4. American Robin*
5. Mourning Dove*
6. Tufted Titmouse
7. White-breasted Nuthatch
8. Blue Jay (v)
9. Northern Flicker (v)
10. American Goldfinch
11. Pine Siskin
12. Downy Woodpecker (v)
13. Red-winged Blackbird† (v)

Elsewhere

14. Herring Gull

v = Voice only
*Also elsewhere
**Voice only elsewhere
†First-of-year bird

 

 
Bird Report is a (sometimes intermittent) record of the birds I encounter while hiking, see while driving, or spy outside my window. —Brian Willson



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