Savannah Sparrows again. I love them. I love their look (spiffy, kempt) and their behavior (secretive or conspicuous, depending) and their voice (so, so fine). This cool, breezy, cloudless morning on the hill, dog and I encountered the same bird at the same spot in most of the past several days. It perched, chipping its sharp chip-note, warning us and/or its young ’uns away. (In the background of my photo, a blur of orange-red as evidence of a Wood Lily).

Also, today, many other species. Wouldn’t mind a repeat of such a day tomorrow.

[Note: forgot to mention the monarch butterfly I spied flitting about the milkweed at the summit yesterday.]

Beech Hill List
Beginning at 7:22 a.m., I hiked most trails.

1. Black-throated Green Warbler
2. Red-eyed Vireo**
3. Ovenbird
4. American Crow*
5. American Goldfinch**
6. Eastern Towhee
7. Tufted Titmouse
8. Black-capped Chickadee (v)
9. White-breasted Nuthatch (v)
10. Wood Thrush (v)
11. Veery (v)
12. Gray Catbird
13. Northern Flicker
14. Hermit Thrush (v)
15. Blue-headed Vireo (v)
16. Blue Jay (v)
17. Red-winged Blackbird (v)
18. Chestnut-sided Warbler
19. Common Yellowthroat
20. American Robin*
21. Alder Flycatcher (v)
22. Song Sparrow*
23. Field Sparrow (v)
24. Downy Woodpecker
25. Cedar Waxwing
26. Yellow-rumped Warbler
27. Yellow Warbler (v)
28. Savannah Sparrow
29. Herring Gull*
30. Common Raven
31. Turkey Vulture
32. Eastern Phoebe
33. Purple Finch
34. Hairy Woodpecker (drumming)
35. Black-and-white Warbler

Elsewhere

36. Northern Cardinal (v)
37. Mourning Dove

(v) Voice only
*Also elsewhere
**Voice only elsewhere
†First-of-year