My favorite sparrow is the Savannah Sparrow. I love its tidy outfit, with yellow lores, and its lovely, high, insect-sounding song. Have heard too few on the trail this year (have seen even fewer), but today’s fruitful list-making morning was an exception. He even posed for photos.

Otherwise, this morning, we interacted with other humans and dogs, Jack and I, and I managed to count nearly three-dozen bird species—including a my first ever fledgling Brown Creepers.

I’ll take a morning like this any day.

Beech Hill List
Beginning at 7:41 a.m., I hiked all trails.

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

Elsewhere

36 Barn Swallow

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