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Chilly Days

Monday, May 13th, 2019
Nashville Warbler, Beech HIll Preserve, Rockport, Maine, 13 May 2019.
Nashville Warbler.

Chilly this morning. Forties (F)—and a cold night forecast for tonight, along with possible snow tomorrow. Latest coldest high temps ever, thanks to anthropogenic climate change.

Bald Eagle (adult), Beech HIll Preserve, Rockport, Maine, 13 May 2019.
Bald Eagle (adult).

But the birds seem happy. Three more first-of-year species today (Yellow Warbler, Veery, and Rose-breasted Grosbeak). Plus, I shocked myself by getting a photo of the elusive Nashville Warbler.

Tomorrow should be interesting.

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

1. Ovenbird**
2. American Robin
3. Black-throated Green Warbler (v)
4. Hermit Thrush (v)
5. Black-and-white Warbler
6. Herring Gull*
7. Nashville Warbler
8. Black-capped Chickadee
9. Hairy Woodpecker (v)
10. Common Yellowthroat (v)
11. Gray Catbird*
12. Northern Flicker (v)
13. Yellow Warbler† (v)
14. Eastern Towhee
15. Northern Cardinal**
16. American Goldfinch**
17. Turkey Vulture*
18. Veery† (v)
19. White-throated Sparrow (v)
20. Blue-headed Vireo
21. Northern Parula (v)
22. Tufted Titmouse** (v)
23. Purple Finch (v)
24. Tree Swallow
25. Bald Eagle
26. Eastern Phoebe
27. American Kestrel
28. Chipping Sparrow**
29. Rose-breasted Grosbeak†
30. Common Raven
31. White-breasted Nuthatch (v)

Elsewhere

32. Great Blue Heron
33. House Finch
34. Blue Jay

v = Voice only
*Also elsewhere
**Voice only elsewhere
†First-of-year bird

Exotic Sapsucker

Monday, April 16th, 2018

Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, Beech Hill Preserve, Rockport, Maine, 15 April 2017.

Yellow-bellied Sapsucker.

Much chillier this morning, with frost and a scattering of sleet on the mudless trail. Quite a breeze, too—but a lot of bird activity on the hill. Most notable, to me, was a calling and drumming male Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, his call exotic and his drumming syncopated.

Elsewhere, I got a look at a little herd of turkeys, pecking away in a field, and two new ospreys arriving.

Beech Hill List
Beginning at 9:15 a.m., I hiked the open trail.

1. American Crow*
2. Song Sparrow* (v)
3. White-breasted Nuthatch (v)
4. Tufted Titmouse** (v)
5. American Goldfinch** (v)
6. Northern Cardinal (v)
7. Hermit Thrush
8. Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
9. American Robin*
10. Yellow-rumped Warbler (v)
11. Eastern Phoebe
12. Purple Finch (v)
13. Black-capped Chickadee** (v)
14. Blue Jay (v)

Elsewhere

15. Wild Turkey
16. Mourning Dove
17. Osprey

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

 

 
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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