6 April 2026

Cold Shrike

December 11th, 2016
Northern Shrike, Beech Hill Preserve, Rockport, Maine, 11 December 2016.

Northern Shrike.

Four degrees (F) when first I looked. A slick, sharp, brisk, lovely hike with Jack. A hike with shrike. And raven.

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

1. Black-capped Chickadee**
2. American Crow*
3. Northern Flicker
4. Common Raven
5. Northern Shrike
6. American Goldfinch (v)

Elsewhere

7. White-breasted Nuthatch (v)
8. Herring Gull
9. American Robin

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

 

Cold Morning, Distant Birds

December 10th, 2016
Northern Shrike, Beech Hill Preserve, Rockport, Maine, 10 December 2016.

Northern Shrike.

Cold hike. Lovely morning. Distant perching shrike and flicker and, in flight, a lark.

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

1. Black-capped Chickadee
2. American Goldfinch (v)
3. Blue Jay (v)
4. American Crow
5. Horned Lark
6. Northern Shrike
7. Northern Flicker
8. American Robin
9. White-breasted Nuthatch (v)

Elsewhere

10. Herring Gull
11. Rock Pigeon
12. Mallard
13. European Starling (v)
14. Ring-billed Gull

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

 

One Particular Chickadee

December 9th, 2016
Black-capped Chickadee, Beech Hill Preserve, Rockport, Maine, 09 December 2016.

Black-capped Chickadee.

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

1. Blue Jay**
2. American Crow*
3. Common Raven
4. Black-capped Chickadee**
5. American Tree Sparrow
6. White-breasted Nuthatch**
7. Brown Creeper (v)

Elsewhere

8. Northern Cardinal
9. Herring Gull
10. Rock Pigeon

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

 

 
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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