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Posts Tagged ‘gray catbirds’
Thursday, September 11th, 2014
 Song Sparrow. A drizzly, foggy, drippy, fragrant day. Worked for most of it, then got out at the end with Jack for a walk in the rain.
Beech Hill List
Beginning at 5:15 p.m., I hiked the open trail.
1. Black-capped Chickadee** (v)
2. Eastern Towhee
3. Gray Catbird
4. Song Sparrow
5. Common Yellowthroat
6. Cedar Waxwing (v)
Elsewhere
7. American Crow
8. Black-and-white Warbler (v)
9. Blue Jay (v)
10. Herring Gull
11. Canada Goose
12. Tufted Titmouse (v)
13. Northern Cardinal (v)
14. Rock Pigeon
v = Voice only
**Voice only elsewhere
Tags: American crow, black-and-white warbler, black-capped chickadee, blue jay, Canada goose, Cedar waxwing, common yellowthroat, eastern towhee, gray catbirds, herring gull, northern cardinal, rock pigeon, song sparrow, tufted titmouse
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Monday, June 23rd, 2014
 American Redstart. Another busy desk day. Worked straight through from early until late and didn’t get up Beech Hill until after 5. Breezy and sunny and dry.
 Yellow Warbler. The birds seemed especially quiet—no doubt the youngsters are keeping them busy. I did see a singing Yellow Warbler. Saw a Wild Turkey hen up at the summit; she ducked low and disappeared into the tall grass, no doubt with a bunch of young birds. Also saw a few Cedar Waxwings, a Gray Catbird, nervous Savannah Sparrows and Song Sparrows. Saw a skittish Common Yellowthroat. And as we neared the point where we began, I spotted an American Redstart in the branches of a tree not eight or ten feet from my camera lens. Kind of too near, even.
Tonight is cool again. Kids are playing on a grassy hill at the motel across the street.
Beech Hill List
Beginning at 5:15 p.m., I hiked the open trail.
1. Ovenbird** (v)
2. Eastern Towhee (v)
3. Red-eyed Vireo** (v)
4. Veery (v)
5. Yellow Warbler**
6. Gray Catbird
7. Savannah Sparrow
8. Song Sparrow**
9. Field Sparrow (v)
10. Common Yellowthroat**
11. American Goldfinch (v)
12. American Crow* (v)
13. Wild Turkey
14. Cedar Waxwing
15. Alder Flycatcher (v)
16. Black-and-white Warbler (v)
17. American Redstart**
18. American Robin** (v)
Elsewhere
19. House Sparrow (v)
20. Black-throated Green Warbler (v)
21. Herring Gull
v = Voice only
*Also elsewhere
**Voice only elsewhere
 Cedar Waxwing.
Tags: alder flycatcher, American crow, American goldfinch, American redstart, American robin, black-and-white warbler, black-throated green warbler, cedar waxwinga, common yellowthroat, eastern towhee, field sparrow, gray catbirds, herring gull, house sparrow, ovenbird, red-eyed vireo, savannah sparrow, song sparrow, veery, wild turkey, yellow warbler
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Thursday, July 11th, 2013
 Black-and-white warbler. Busiest day of a busy week so far. But it didn’t rain, and the sun even poked through a few times, so I managed a good bicycle ride. At one point, pumping hard along a straightaway just torn up for road construction, I spied a great blue heron flapping slowly overhead.
 Song sparrow. Late to Beech Hill, but by happy coincidence Jack and I arrived about the same time the sun did. Plenty of people moving up and down. Plenty of mosquitos. [I worry about our bats.] And quite a few birds skulking about in the brush and understory. We stuck to the open trail but I did manage to sneak up on a black-and-white warbler singing its alternate, summer song. Early in the season, this bird will flit animatedly along trunks and branches, poking about the bark; these days, the singing bird sits still, usually preening—as this one was. While moving slowly toward it, I also managed close looks at a singing veery (mostly behind a tree trunk, darn it), a female yellowthroat, and a mewing catbird.
Returning, I snapped a photo of a song sparrow with a white butterfly in its beak, but it was a little overbright, alas.
(Earlier, at home, I found what appears to have been a gypsy moth larva—a remarkably fancy, almost hypnotizing caterpillar.)
Anyway. Nice to see a little sun.
Beech Hill List
Beginning at 5:15 p.m., I hiked the open trail.
 Caterpillar. 1. American robin*
2. Chipping sparrow** (v)
3. Ovenbird (v)
4. Chestnut-sided warbler**
5. Eastern towhee
6. American goldfinch (v)
7. Red-eyed vireo** (v)
8. Gray catbird**
9. Song sparrow**
10. Common yellowthroat**
11. Cedar waxwing
12. Yellow warbler (v)
13. Savannah sparrow
14. Black-capped chickadee
15. Veery
16. Herring gull*
17. House finch**
18. American crow* (v)
19. Black-and-white warbler
20. Downy woodpecker
21. Hairy woodpecker
22. Alder flycatcher (v)
23. Field sparrow (v)
24. Eastern phoebe** (v)
Elsewhere
25. Mourning dove
26. Rock pigeon
27. Great blue heron
v = Voice only
*Also elsewhere
**Voice only elsewhere
Tags: alder flycatcher, American crow, American goldfinch, American robin, black-and-white warbler, black-capped chickadee, Cedar waxwing, chestnut-sided warbler, chipping sparrow, common yellowthroat, downy woodpecker, eastern phoebe, eastern towhee, field sparrow, gray catbirds, great blue heron, hairy woodpecker, herring gull, house finch, mourning dove, ong sparrow, ovenbird, red-eyed vireo, rock pigeon, savannah sparrow, veery, yellow warbler
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