Each year is different. This one’s had way more mosquitos than usual—and also Chipping Sparrows. Don’t know how come the species has been reproducing like crazy, but these days it seems like every conifer you wander past has got some serious chatter of adult and fledglings.
Beech Hill List Beginning at 7:30 a.m., I hiked the open trail.
1. Red-eyed Vireo (v) 2. Tufted Titmouse (v) 3. Black-throated Green Warbler 4. Song Sparrow** 5. American Robin 6. Chestnut-sided Warbler** 7. Eastern Towhee 8. Common Yellowthroat** 9. Alder Flycatcher 10. Yellow Warbler (v) 11. Chimney Swift 12. Ruby-throated Hummingbird 13. Eastern Bluebird (v) 14. Field Sparrow (v) 15. Hermit Thrush (v) 16. Veery (v) 17. Chipping Sparrow* 18. Cedar Waxwing 19. American Goldfinch** (v) 20. American Crow* 21. Eastern Phoebe* 22. Gray Catbird* 23. Great Crested Flycatcher (v) 24. Blue Jay (v) 25. Black-capped Chickadee (v)
Elsewhere
26. Herring Gull 27. Mourning Dove 28. Rock Pigeon
v = Voice only *Also elsewhere **Voice only elsewhere
I got my best photo of a Yellow Warbler this morning. I’ve been spotting the same bird, singing in the same birch tree, for weeks. Never could pin it down.
But this third foggy morning in a row, soon after I discovered that the cloud had burned away about half-way up the hill, I stood and waited and got just the glimpse I’ve been looking for.
Hey, little birdie.
Beech Hill List Beginning at 7:30 a.m., I hiked the open trail.
Beech Hill List Beginning at 9:15 a.m., I hiked the open trail.
1. Red-eyed Vireo (v)
2. American Goldfinch**
3. Chestnut-sided Warbler (v)
4. Eastern Towhee
5. American Robin** (v)
6. Black-and-white Warbler (v)
7. Black-capped Chickadee (v)
8. Cedar Waxwing
9. Common Yellowthroat (v)
10. Ovenbird (v)
12. Song Sparrow
12. Field Sparrow (v)
13. Broad-winged Hawk
14. Gray Catbird*
15. Alder Flycatcher (v)
16. Yellow Warbler
17. American Crow*
18. Purple Finch (v)
19. Tree Swallow
20. Red-breasted Nuthatch
Elsewhere
21. Mourning Dove
22. Herring Gull
23. Rock Pigeon
24. House Sparrow
25. Chipping Sparrow
26. European Starling
27. Mourning Dove
28. Chimney Swift
29. Wild Turkey
