Each year is different. This one’s had way more mosquitos than usual—and also Chipping Sparrows. Don’t know how come the species has been reproducing like crazy, but these days it seems like every conifer you wander past has got some serious chatter of adult and fledglings.
Beech Hill List Beginning at 7:30 a.m., I hiked the open trail.
1. Red-eyed Vireo (v) 2. Tufted Titmouse (v) 3. Black-throated Green Warbler 4. Song Sparrow** 5. American Robin 6. Chestnut-sided Warbler** 7. Eastern Towhee 8. Common Yellowthroat** 9. Alder Flycatcher 10. Yellow Warbler (v) 11. Chimney Swift 12. Ruby-throated Hummingbird 13. Eastern Bluebird (v) 14. Field Sparrow (v) 15. Hermit Thrush (v) 16. Veery (v) 17. Chipping Sparrow* 18. Cedar Waxwing 19. American Goldfinch** (v) 20. American Crow* 21. Eastern Phoebe* 22. Gray Catbird* 23. Great Crested Flycatcher (v) 24. Blue Jay (v) 25. Black-capped Chickadee (v)
Elsewhere
26. Herring Gull 27. Mourning Dove 28. Rock Pigeon
v = Voice only *Also elsewhere **Voice only elsewhere
It’s apple blossom season. That usually means a flock or two of waxwings showing up randomly—as they did in the early overcast, post-showers time of this day.
Waxwings love apple blossom petals.
Beech Hill List Beginning at 8:15 a.m., I hiked the open trail.
1. Ovenbird** (v) 2. Red-eyed Vireo** (v) 3. Common Yellowthroat** 4. Black-throated Green Warbler (v) 5. Chestnut-sided Warbler 6. American Redstart 7. Veery (v) 8. Hairy Woodpecker 9. American Goldfinch 10. Rose-breasted Grosbeak (v) 11. Gray Catbird* 12. Tufted Titmouse (v) 13. Hermit Thrush (v) 14. Black-capped Chickadee (v) 15. White-breasted Nuthatch (v) 16. Nashville Warbler (v) 17. Eastern Wood-pewee 18. Least Flycatcher (v) 19. Alder Flycatcher 20. Great Crested Flycatcher (v) 21. Eastern Towhee 22. Ruby-throated Hummingbird (wingbeats) 23. Field Sparrow 24. Song Sparrow 25. Tree Swallow 26. Eastern Phoebe* 27. American Crow* 28. Eastern Kingbird 29. Chipping Sparrow 30. Pileated Woodpecker (v) 31. Cedar Waxwing 32. Yellow Warbler 33. American Robin (v) 34. Downy Woodpecked 35. Black-throated Blue Warbler (v) 36. Northern Cardinal** (v)
Elsewhere
37. House Finch (v) 38. Herring Gull 39. Great Blue Heron 40. Mourning Dove
v = Voice only *Also elsewhere **Voiceo nly 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
