Nice cool, breezy, sunny morning. Lots of bird activity—highlights being a singing Northern Parula, and a Philadelphia Vireo that appeared in the summit spruce grove.
Met a fellow birder and had a nice chat about photography.
Got home and put a tonneau cover on my pickup. (Just threw that in for factual authenticity.)
Beech Hill List Beginning at 715 a.m., I hiked the open trail.
1. Red-eyed Vireo** (v) 2. American Crow* 3. Chestnut-sided Warbler 4. Song Sparrow** 5. Chipping Sparrow* 6. Ovenbird (v) 7. Common Yellowthroat 8. Alder Flycatcher (v) 9. Mourning Dove* 10. Gray Catbird 11. Eastern Towhee 12. Yellow Warbler (v) 13. Field Sparrow (v) 14. American Goldfinch** 15. White-breasted Nuthatch (v) 16. Tufted Titmouse (v) 17. Eastern Phoebe 18. Eastern Towhee 19. Cedar Waxwing 20. Veery** (v) 21. Northern Parula (v) 22. Red-breasted Nuthatch 23. Philadelphia Vireo 24. Black-capped Chickadee (v) 25. Common Raven (v) 26. Barn Swallow 27. Purple Finch (v) 28. Rose-breasted Grosbeak (v) 29. American Redstart (v)
Elsewhere
30. Herring Gull
v = Voice only *Also elsewhere **Voice only elsewhere
Rained much of the night. Stopped long enough for a morning hike with dog. Damp, green, humid, lush. Interesting walk—including a first-of-year patch of fireweed (ate my first blossom of the year, yum), Mourning Dove singing from the chimney of Beech Nut, Philadelphia Vireo singing by the road, A white-tail showing up in a photo I took of a flicker.
On way back home I stopped in traffic on Route 1 to let a little family of Mallards cross.
More rain later. Precipitation is generally not a bad thing.
Beech Hill List Beginning at 8:15 a.m., I hiked the open trail.
Another rainy morning, but Jack and I managed to miss most of it early. Our hike was marked by wave upon wave of Yellow-rumped Warblers—scores of them moving through. Also vireos, sparrows. And a Wilson’s warbler that posed for a moment not ten feet from me, but with the dimness (and my one-handed camera grip) I didn’t manage a photo.
Oh, well.
Beech Hill List Beginning at 7:45 a.m., I hiked the open trail.
1. American Crow*
2. Black-capped Chickadee
3. American Goldfinch (v)
4. Yellow-rumped Warbler
5. Song Sparrow
6. American Robin (v)
7. Philadelphia Vireo
8. Eastern Towhee (v)
9. Red-shouldered Hawk
10. Eastern Bluebird
11. Northern Flicker (v)
12. Red-eyed Vireo
13. Wilson’s Warbler
14. Dark-eyed Junco
