8 February 2025

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Three Firsts

Friday, May 12th, 2023
Baltimore Oriole (first of year), Beech Hill Preserve, Rockport, Maine, 12 May 2023.
Baltimore Oriole (first of year).

The day dawned with a sort of humid haze that lasted much of the day. Temps in the mid-50s (F) as dog and I started up the wooded Beech Hill trail. And there wasn’t much wind at all. I had no expectations—other than hoping for another first-of-year or two. Welp, I got three!

Right off the bat, I heard the voice of a Baltimore Oriole, which kindly flew up to a limb above us. Coming up the upper trail, I heard the voice of a Nashville Warbler. And at the summit, I heard—then saw—an American Restart.

Otherwise, we met five trail friends (and three dog friends) and oversaw the blooming blueberries and rhodora and little wild fruit trees.

Gonna be another good ’un tomorrow, I can just tell.

Beech Hill List
Beginning at 6:18 a.m. sun time (7:18 DST), I hiked all trails.

1. Ovenbird**
2. Song Sparrow
3. Black-throated Green Warbler**
4. Baltimore Oriole†
5. Downy Woodpecker
6. American Goldfinch
7. Blue Jay (v)
8. Purple Finch
9. Chestnut-sided Warbler**
10. Northern Parula (v)
11. American Crow*
12. Brown Creeper
13. Black-and-white Warbler (v)
14. Eastern Towhee
15. Blue-headed Vireo (v)
16. Gray Catbird
17. Nashville Warbler† (v)
18. Tufted Titmouse (v)
19. Common Yellowthroat (v)
20. Black-capped Chickadee
21. Field Sparrow (v)
22. Yellow Warbler
23. American Robin
24. White-throated Sparrow**
25. Red-breasted Nuthatch (v)
26. Yellow-rumped Warbler (v)
27. Chipping Sparrow**
28. American Redstart†
29. Eastern Bluebird
30. Tree Swallow
31. Eastern Phoebe
32. Northern Cardinal (v)
33. Hairy Woodpecker (v)
34. Veery (v)
35. Northern Flicker** (v)

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

†First-of-year

Variety

Tuesday, September 27th, 2022
Nashville Warbler, Monhegan Island, Maine, 27 September 2022.
Nashville Warbler.

Monhegan List

1. Herring Gull
2. Song Sparrow
3. American Crow
4. Black-capped Chickadee
5. Northern Flicker
6. American Goldfinch
7. Common Raven
8. Common Yellowthroat
9. Red-breasted Nuthatch
10. Blue Jay
11. Carolina Wren
12. Ring-necked Pheasant
13. Northern Cardinal
14. Common Raven
15. White-throated Sparrow
16. Merlin
17. Carolina Wren
18. House Wren
19. Great Black-backed Gull
20. Common Eider
21. Golden-crowned Kinglet
22. Purple Finch
23. Yellow-rumped Warbler
24. White-breasted Nuthatch
25. Cedar Waxwing
26. Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
27. American Redstart
28. Downy Woodpecker
29. Tennesses Warbler
30. Mourning Dove
31. Ring-billed Gull
32. Peregrine Falcon
33. Mallard
34. Spotted Sandpiper
35. Brown Thrasher
36. Baltimore Oriole
37. Nashville Warbler
38. Scarlet Tanager
39. Common Grackle
40. American Robin

More Good Birds

Monday, September 26th, 2022
Wood Duck at the Ice Pond, Monhegan Island, Maine, 26 September 2022.
Wood Duck at the Ice Pond.

Monhegan List

1. American Crow
2. Herring Gull
3. Great Black-backed Gull
4. Carolina Wren (v)
5. Mourning Dove
6. Merlin
7. European Starling
8. Double-crested Cormorant
9. Yellow-rumped Warbler
10. Northern Cardinal
11. Red-breasted Nuthatch
12. Blue Jay
13. Song Sparrow
14. Downy Woodpecker
15. Ruby-crowned Kinglet
16. Northern Flicker
17. Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
18. White-throated Sparrow
19. Baltimore Oriole
20. Common Yellowthroat
21. Black-capped Chickadee
22. American Goldfinch
23. American Robin
24. Ring-necked Pheasant
25. Mallard
26. Gray Catbird
27. Northern Parula
28. Peregrine Falcon
29. Sharp-whinned Hawk
30. Palm Warbler
31.Eastern Phoebe
32. Common Raven
33. Wood Duck
34. Dickcissel

 
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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