9 February 2025

Posts Tagged ‘ruby-throated hummingbird’

Woodland Hawk

Tuesday, August 29th, 2023
Broad-winged Hawk, Beech Hill Preserve, Rockport, Maine, 29 August 2023.
Broad-winged Hawk.

It was nice to have Jack with me again this morning. The weather as we ascended was gray and foggy, but as we hiked, the fog lifted, and the sun emerged. Few species still, and still a nervousness in the air.

Most notably, perhaps: Whereas as soon as we got out of the truck, I heard the call of a Pileated Woodpecker up above us in the oaks somewhere but I never could find it, later, in the woods, we spooked a hawk, which flew off in the canopy, but somehow I spotted it on distant perch. And got its photo.

Beech Hill List
Starting at 7:46 a.m. EST (8:46 DST), I hiked all trails.

1. Pileated Woodpecker (v)
2. Red-eyed Vireo (v)
3. Eastern Towhee
4. Gray Catbird
5. Common Yellowthroat
6. Song Sparrow
7. American Goldfinch (v)
8. Eastern Wood-pewee (v)
9. Ruby-throated Hummingbird
10. American Robin
11. Blue Jay (v)
12. Cedar Waxwing
13. Black-capped Chickadee
14. Broad-winged Hawk
15. American Crow (v)
16. Tufted Titmouse (v)

Elsewhere

17. Mourning Dove
18. Herring Gull
19. Ring-billed Gull (v)
20. Northern Cardinal (v)
21. Eastern Bluebird

(v) Voice only
*Also elsewhere
**Voice only elsewhere

†First-of-year

Cool Overcast

Thursday, August 17th, 2023
Song Sparrow (juvie), Beech Hill Preserve, Rockport, Maine, 17 August 2023.
Song Sparrow (juvie).

A cool overcast this morning, with a slight breeze and moisture in the trees. Very quiet in the woods, a bit less so in the open fields. Most notable was an Olive-sided Flycatcher perched high atop a summit spruce and a hummingbird buzzing around my head along the leafy trail below.

Birds are moving around these days, with the time of fall migration approaching. Witness a bluebird and three robins in the woods.

Precipitation expected for tomorrow. I wonder what the day will bring.

Beech Hill List
Starting at 7:09 a.m. EST (8:09 DST), I hiked all trails.

1. Tufted Titmouse (v)
2. American Goldfinch*
3. American Crow*
4. Eastern Wood-pewee** (v)
5. Gray Catbird*
6. Black-capped Chickadee (v)
7. Ruby-throated Hummingbird (humming)
8. Eastern Towhee
9. Yellow Warbler
10. Song Sparrow
11. Olive-sided Flycatcher†
12. Cedar Waxwing
13. Common Yellowthroat (v)
14. American Robin
15. White-breasted Nuthatch (v)
16. Ovenbird
17. Eastern Bluebird
18. Eastern Phoebe (v)

Elsewhere

19. Herring Gull
20. Osprey (v)
21. Rock Pigeon

(v) Voice only
*Also elsewhere
**Voice only elsewhere

†First-of-year

Cool and Quiet

Saturday, August 5th, 2023
Black-capped Chickadee, Beech Hill Preserve, Rockport, Maine, 05 August 2023.
Black-capped Chickadee.

’Twas a cool and quiet morning when dog and I started up the wooded trailhead. A few bird vocalizations greeted us, but not a lot. Adults still talking to their young ’uns, mostly or, rarely, singing—or teaching their young ’uns the family tunes.

Fog at the summit, and dimness elsewhere early, so no award-winning photos, but a chickadee posed toward the end of our hike.

Later in the day the sun came out and giant billowy clouds rose above the bay.

Beech Hill List
Starting at 6:58 a.m. EST (7:58 DST), I hiked all trails.

1. Tufted Titmouse (v)
2. Black-capped Chickadee
3. Black-throated Green Warbler (v)
4. Red-eyed Vireo (v)
5. American Goldfinch
6. Black-and-white Warbler
7. Eastern Towhee
8. White-breasted Nuthatch** (v)
9. Eastern Wood-pewee** (v)
10. American Crow*
11. Hairy Woodpecker (v)
12. Hermit Thrush
13. Alder Flycatcher (v)
14. Common Yellowthroat
15. Gray Catbird*
16. Song Sparrow**
17. Purple Finch
18. Downy Woodpecker (v)
19. Northern Cardinal (v)
20. Northern Flicker (v)
21. Blue Jay (v)

Elsewhere

22. Mallard
23. Mourning Dove
24. Herring Gull
25. Ruby-throated hummingbird

(v) Voice only
*Also elsewhere
**Voice only elsewhere

†First-of-year

 
Bird Report is a (sometimes intermittent) record of the birds I encounter while hiking, see while driving, or spy outside my window. —Brian Willson



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