A warm morning, with mosquitos about. Cloudless, little wend. Felt a lot like summer.
Speaking of—I heard another singing Summer Tanager down in the bottomlands. Marched off trail for a while but never did get even a peak at the bird. Will try again tomorrow.
A lovely hike, with sweat galore,
Beech Hill List Beginning at 7:20 a.m., I hiked most trails.
1. Ovenbird 2. Northern Cardinal** (v) 3. Red-eyed Vireo** 4. American Crow* 5. American Goldfinch (v) 6. Black-throated Green Warbler (v) 7. Chestnut-sided Warbler 8. American Redstart** (v) 9. Summer Tanager (v) 10. Veery 11. Hairy Woodpecker 12. Gray Catbird 13. Black-capped Chickadee** 14. Black-and-white Warbler 15. Eastern Towhee 16. Common Yellowthroat 17. Song Sparrow 18. Yellow Warbler 19. Field Sparrow (v) 20. Purple Finch (v) 21. Cedar Waxwing 22. Eastern Phoebe 23. Savannah Sparrow (v) 24. Mourning Dove 25. American Robin 26. Alder Flycatcher (v) 27. Hermit Thrush (v) 28. House Wren 29. Northern Flicker 30. Tree Swallow 31. Red-breasted Nuthatch 32. Ruby-throated Hummingbird 33.Broad-winged Hawk 34. Tufted Titmouse (v) 35. Common Raven (v) 36 Eastern Wood-pewee (v) 37. Wood Thrush (v)
Elsewhere
38. House Finch 39. Rock Pigeon
Mammals
White-tailed Deer
(v) Voice only *Also elsewhere **Voice only elsewhere †First-of-year
For the fourth straight day, I saw a first-of-year bird on my morning hike with dog. Today’s bird—whose chip note I mistook for a yellow-rump’s at first—was a Black-throated Gray Warbler. Also spied the gnatcatcher again (which I assume is the same bird, since it’s unusually early for the species.
Otherwise, two hawks (Cooper’s and a redtail), were noteworthy, as well as a little herd of deer apparently spooked up the trail by a hiker.
Four days before we take off for Maine, Captain Jack and me. A lot to do yet, but we’ll manage somehow—along with our daily hike).
Grandeur Peak Area List At 7:46 a.m., sun time, I hiked a few hundred feet up a mountain.
1. Ruby-crowned Kinglet 2. American Robin* 3. Song Sparrow** 4. Spotted Towhee 5. Pine Siskin** 6. Black-capped Chickadee (v) 7. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 8. House Finch* 9. Woodhouse’s Scrub-jay 10. Rock Pigeon* 11. California Quail* (v) 12. Cooper’s Hawk 13. Black-throated Gray Warbler 14. Red-tailed Hawk
Elsewhere
15. Eurasian Collared-dove 16. House Sparrow 17. Lesser Goldfinch `18. European Starling 19. American Kestrel
Mammals
Mule Deer
(v) Voice only *Also elsewhere **Voice only elsewhere
The first was a single bird I heard singing down near the trailhead. The second—towhees are a large sparrow—was the first of about ten representatives of the species. The third, were a pair of White-throated Sparrows, the first I’ve seen this year.
In fact, these two were not the first white-throats (I happened to hear one as we started up the trail), but they were gracious enough to pose for photos.
Grandeur Peak Area List At 8:04 a.m., sun time, I hiked a few hundred feet up a mountain.
1. American Robin* 2. White-crowned Sparrow† 3. Song Sparrow** (v) 4. Pine Siskin** 5. California Quail** (v) 6. Spotted Towhee 7. House Finch** 8. Red-tailed Hawk 9. Woodhouse’s Scrub-jay 10. Northern Flicker (v) 11. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 12. Cooper’s Hawk 13. Black-capped Chickadee (v)
Elsewhere
14. Eurasian Collared-dove 15. House Sparrow (v) 26. Lesser Goldfinch
Mammals
Mule Deer
(v) Voice only *Also elsewhere **Voice only elsewhere
