A day much like yesterday, sunny and calm and pleasant. Fairly quiet on the mountainside, but a few interesting species in the neighborhood—including what I’m pretty sure was my first sighting of a western yellow-rump (Audubon’s Warbler) out my office window. Just the third warbler I’ve seen here, in fact—which seems weird.
Managed to survive another hike without Jack my dog (and didn’t get eaten by lions).
Grandeur Peak Area List Beginning at 10:15 a.m., I hiked a few hundred feet up the mountain.
Another dogless hike, which is getting old. But at least I engaged in a little chase around the gulch with a (the) Canyon Wren again. Plus, plenty of other species. (Nothing outlandish.)
Sunny, warm in the sun, chilly in evening.
Five days until Jack can accompany me again.
Grandeur Peak Area List Beginning at 10:15 a.m., I hiked a few hundred feet up the mountain.
No Jack on my midday Halloween hike, which seemed wrong and strange. I made it a quick one. At first there seemed few birds up the mountainside—but a bunch showed up on my return trip, including Golden Eagle, Canyon Wren, and a pair of vocal ravens.
I sure missed that dog of mine—who had to stay home in a cone—but I can think of worse companionship.
Grandeur Peak Area List Beginning at 1:30 p.m., I hiked a few hundred feet up the mountain.
1. Black-capped Chickadee* 2. House Finch** 3. Northern Flicker* 4. American Goldfinch* (v) 5. Woodhouse’s Scrub-jay* 6. Dark-eyed Junco (v) 7. Golden Eagle 8. Black-billed Magpie** 9. Canyon Wren 10. Common Raven
Elsewhere
11. European Starling 12. Rock Pigeon 13. Ruby-crowned Kinglet 14. Eurasian Collared Dove 15. House Sparrow
v = Voice only *Also elsewhere **Voice only elsewhere
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
