6 November 2026

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Today’s Surprise

Saturday, May 21st, 2016
Ruffed Grouse, Beech Hill Preserve, Rockport, Maine, 21 May 2016.

Ruffed Grouse.

If you think you know the way
your day will go, you’re dreaming.
Chances are your boring day
will end up with some screaming—
or not. But if you walk outside
and look around, absorb the sky,
the wood, the field, the sounds of birds,
you’re in for a surprise.

Eastern Towhee, Beech Hill Preserve, Rockport, Maine, 21 May 2016.

Eastern Towhee.

Today’s surprise: a grouse took flight
and posed a while for photos.

Beech Hill List
Beginning at 7:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. combined, I hiked all trails.

1. Ovenbird**
2. Tufted Titmouse (v)
3. Black-throated Green Warbler** (v)
4. Eastern Phoebe*
5. Blue-headed Vireo (v)
6. Chestnut-sided Warbler
7. Common Yellowthroat
8. Common Raven
9. Red-eyed Vireo
10. Veery
11. American Redstart
12. American Crow*
13. Blue Jay*
14. Northern Parula (v)
15. Eastern Towhee
16. Ruffed Grouse
17. Northern Cardinal** (v)
18. Gray Catbird
19. Downy Woodpecker (v)
20. Black-and-white Warbler
21. Swainson’s Thrush
22. Yellow Warbler**
23. White-throated Sparrow
24. Scarlet Tanager
25. Mourning Dove*
26. American Robin*
27. Purple Finch
28. Field Sparrow
29. Song Sparrow**
30. Tree Swallow
31. Eastern Kingbird
32. Merlin
33. Savannah Sparrow
34. Cooper’s Hawk
35. Rose-breasted Grosbeak
36. Broad-winged Hawk
37. Turkey Vulture
38. Black-throated Blue Warbler (v)
39. Black-throated Green Warbler (v)
40. Hermit Thrush (v)
41. Brown Creeper (v)
42. White-breasted Nuthatch*
43. Osprey**

Elsewhere

44. European Starling
45. Herring Gull
46. Rock Pigeon
47. Ruby-throated Hummingbird
48. Red-bellied Woodpecker (v)

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

 

Returned

Saturday, September 28th, 2013
Magnolia warbler, Monhegan Island, Maine, 28 September 2013.

Magnolia warbler, Monhegan.

Up early, birded Monhegan until late morning, got my stuff together, took the Elizabeth Ann back inshore. The water was as smooth as new blacktop, the sun bright, a youthful eagle flapping to a perch on a tall spruce on an island.

Got my dog, put stuff away, took a hike up Beech Hill.

(I’ll compile my Monhegan list soon.)

Beech Hill List
Beginning at 4:15 p.m., I hiked the open trail.

1. Common raven* (v)
2. Yellow-rumped warbler
3. American crow* (v)
4. Black-capped chickadee* (v)
5. Magnolia warbler*
6. Gray catbird** (v)
7. Ruby-crowned kinglet*

Elsewhere

8. Cape May warbler
9. Herring gull
10. Blue jay
11. Northern flicker
12. Golden-crowned kinglet (v)
13. Black-capped chickadee
14. Black-and-white warbler
15. Carolina wren (v)
16. Red-breasted nuthatch (v)
17. Red-eyed vireo
18. Blue-headed vireo
19. Merlin
20. Northern harrier
21. Bald eagle
22. Great black-backed gull
23. Song sparrow
24. Swamp sparrow
25. Northern parula
26. Yellow-bellied sapsucker
27. Black-throated green warbler
28. Eastern phoebe
29. Sharp-shinned hawk
30. White-throated sparrow
31. White-crowned sparrow
32. Northern waterthrush
33. Mallard
34. Double-crested cormorant
35. Black guillemot
36. Semipalmated plover
37. European starling
38. Peregrine falcon
39. American robin
40. Northern mockingbird
41. Yellow-billed cuckoo
42. Yellow warbler
43. Downy woodpecker
44. Northern gannett
45. Laughing gull
46. Palm warbler
47. Mourning dove
48. Brown creeper
49. Cedar waxwing
50. American goldfinch

Magnolia warbler.
 
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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