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Cool and Sunny

Friday, August 11th, 2023
Chestnut-sided Warbler (juvie), Beech Hill Preserve, Rockport, Maine, 11 August 2023.
Chestnut-sided Warbler (juvie).

A cool and sunny morning. Still quiet, bird-wise, so it took some gazing in the canopy to spy the little birds along the lower wooded trail. Notable in the open fields were a pair of Broad-winged Hawks and a vulture.

Returning in the upper woods, I got a look at a couple warblers along the trail. Even got a photo of one, a juvie Chestnut-sided Warbler. It was looking right at me.

Beech Hill List
Starting at 6:54 a.m. EST (7:54 DST), I hiked all trails.

1. Wild Turkey
2. Red-eyed Vireo** (v)
3. American Goldfinch
4. Eastern Wood-pewee
5. Tufted Titmouse (v)
6. Black-capped Chickadee (v)
7. Black-and-white Warbler
8. Ovenbird (v)
9. Brown Creeper (v)
10. White-breasted Nuthatch (v)
11. American Crow*
12. Eastern Towhee
13. Gray Catbird (v)
14. Alder Flycatcher
15. Cedar Waxwing
16. Song Sparrow
17. Broad-winged Hawk
18. Turkey Vulture
19. Northern Cardinal (v)
20. American Robin
21. Common Yellowthroat (v)
22. Chestnut-sided Warbler

Elsewhere

23. Herring Gull
24. Rock Pigeon
25. Bald Eagle

(v) Voice only
*Also elsewhere
**Voice only elsewhere

†First-of-year

Swallows

Monday, August 7th, 2023
Tree Swallows (and one Barn Swallow), Beech Hill Preserve, Rockport, Maine, 07 August 2023.
Tree Swallows (and one Barn Swallow).

The day began with a hazy sun and an overcast on the way. A different day from yesterday, in part on account of a fly hatch. At the tips of the summit spruce grove, flies attracted many (mostly young) Tree Swallows—and one Barn Swallow tagged along.

Farther down the hill, a similar hatch lured a big flock of waxwings to the tops of some small trailside hardwoods. The birds were in waxwing heaven.

Tomorrow the rain will come. Dog and I will get wet for sure. Don’t mind.

Beech Hill List
Starting at 7:01 a.m. EST (8:01 DST), I hiked all trails.

1. Red-eyed Vireo (v)
2. White-breasted Nuthatch
3. American Goldfinch
4. Eastern Towhee
5. Eastern Wood-pewee (v)
6. Black-capped Chickadee (v)
7. Downy Woodpecker (v)
8. Brown Creeper (v)
9. Yellow-bellied Sapsucker (v)
10. Blue Jay (v)
11. Gray Catbird
12. Tree Swallow
13. Barn Swallow
14. American Robin*
15. Common Yellowthroat
16. American Crow*
17. Cedar Waxwing
18. Song Sparrow**
19. Chipping Sparrow
20. Purple Finch
21. Alder Flycatcher (v)
22. Eastern Bluebird
23. Yellow Warbler (v)
24. Tufted Titmouse (v)
25. Black-and-white Warbler (v)

Elsewhere

26. Northern Cardinal (v)
27. Herring Gull
28. Wild Turkey
29. Mourning Dove
30. Rock Pigeon

(v) Voice only
*Also elsewhere
**Voice only elsewhere

†First-of-year

Cloudless Morn

Sunday, August 6th, 2023
Eastern Bluebird, Beech Hill Preserve, Rockport, Maine, 06 August 2023.
Eastern Bluebird (and his shadow).

A cool, cloudless morning greeted us when dog and I started up the wooded trailhead. Quiet in the trees, though. Mostly the usual suspects calling, with the occasional apparent begging sounds young birds.

Many, many waxwings, though. Also many robins. A few vultures overhead—and a single bluebird perching in the sun, projecting its shadow on a leaf.

Billowy clouds came this hot afternoon. Tomorrow’s supposed to be overcast.

Beech Hill List
Starting at 7:01 a.m. EST (8:01 DST), I hiked the all trails.

1. Black-capped Chickadee
2. Tufted Titmouse (v)
3. American Goldfinch
4. Downy Woodpecker (v)
5. Red-eyed Vireo**
6. Eastern Towhee
7. Hairy Woodpecker (v)
8. Eastern Wood-pewee (v)
9. American Crow*
10. White-breasted Nuthatch (v)
11. Brown Creeper (v)
12. Gray Catbird**
13. Alder Flycatcher (v)
14. American Robin*
15. Common Yellowthroat
16. Cedar Waxwing
17. Song Sparrow
18. Barn Swallow
19. Turkey Vulture
20. Blue Jay (v)
21. Eastern Bluebird
22. Northern Cardinal (v)
23. Yellow Warbler (v)

Elsewhere

24. Herring Gull

(v) Voice only
*Also elsewhere
**Voice only elsewhere

†First-of-year

 
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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