Fog first thing, a deep overcast. Birds weren’t talking much, but neither were they silent. Heard an alternate cuckoo call up in the area where I nabbed a photo of one the other day. Got a photo of a yellowthroat.
A low-key but inspiring morning.
Beech Hill List Beginning at 8 a.m., I hiked all trails.
1. Red-eyed Vireo 2. Ovenbird (v) 3. American Redstart (v) 4. Black-throated Green Warbler (v) 5. Chestnut-sided Warbler** 6. Common Yellowthroat** 7. Veery 8. Eastern Wood-pewee (v) 9. Black-capped Chickadee (v) 10. Eastern Towhee (v) 11. Gray Catbird 12. Black-and-white Warbler (v) 13. Nashville Warbler (v) 14. American Crow* 15. Northern Flicker 16. American Goldfinch** 17. Alder Flycatcher 18. Field Sparrow (v) 19. Song Sparrow* 20. Yellow Warbler 21. Great Crested Flycatcher (v) 22. Tree Swallow 23. Eastern Phoebe (v) 24. Chipping Sparrow (v) 25. American Robin* 26. Black-billed Cuckoo (v) 27. Tufted Titmouse (v) 28. Hermit Thrush (v) 29. Black-throated Blue Warbler 30. Least Flycatcher (v)
Elsewhere
31. Mourning Dove 32. Herring Gull 33. European Starling 34. Rock Pigeon 35. House Sparrow 36. Blue Jay (v)
v = Voice only *Also elsewhere **Voice only elsewhere
Beech Hill List Beginning at 7:30 a.m., I hiked all trails.
Calm day. Warmish. Mosquitos all over the place. Overcast, in the woodlands. Still I managed a decent list, managed, managed not to disturb any wildlife, managed a photo or two of birds on the hill.
1. Red-eyed Vireo** (v) 2. Ovenbird** (v) 3. Chestnut-sided Warbler** (v) 4. Tufted Titmouse (v) 5. Veery 6. Common Yellowthroat (v) 7. Black-and-white Warbler 8. Black-throated Green Warbler (v) 9. Eastern Wood-pewee 10. Nashville Warbler (v) 11. Blue Jay* 12. Eastern Towhee 13. American Crow* 14. American Goldfinch* 15. Alder Flycatcher 16. Song Sparrow** 17. Eastern Phoebe* 18. Pileated Woodpecker (v) 19. Gray Catbird 20. Yellow Warbler 21. Eastern Phoebe* 22. Tree Swallow 23. Eastern Bluebird 24. Herring Gull* 25. Black-capped Chickadee** (v) 26. Cedar Waxwing 27. Hermit Thrush 28. Northern Flicker (v) 29. American Robin (v) 30. Rose-breasted Grosbeak (v) 31. Least Flycatcher
Elsewhere
32. House Finch (v) 33. Rock Pigeon 34. Common Grackle 35. Mourning Dove 36. European Starling
A sunny, warm, kind of glorious morning. Spring at last. A breeze rose in the fully-fledged trees, and the resulting hush obscured some birdsong—but I heard enough (and saw enough) to have a happy hike with dog.
Portrait of chestnut-sided Warbler.
Happiest occurrence: A Black-billed Cuckoo zipped up to a branch directly in front of us along the wooded trail and posed for photos. I rarely get to photograph these shy birds.
Back home, a curiosity: the call of a kingfisher where I’d never heard one before. Weird.
Beech Hill List Beginning at 8 a.m., I hiked the open trail.
Bird Report is an intermittent record of what's outside my window in Rockport, Maine, USA (44°08'N latitude, 69°06'W longitude), and vicinity. —Brian Willson
