6 November 2026

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Solitary Monarch

Tuesday, August 15th, 2017
Cedar Waxwing (juvie), Beech Hill Preserve, Rockport, Maine, 15 August 2017.

Cedar Waxwing (juvie).

Breaking in a new camera today, gift from Canon, whose service technicians no longer work on my former model. Didn’t make time enough to figure out all the gazillions of settings, so this morning’s photos are a bit meh—or would’ve been had a solitary Monarch not saved the day.

Monarch on milkweed, Beech Hill Preserve, Rockport, Maine, 15 August 2017.

Monarch on milkweed.

Beech Hill List
Beginning at 8:45 a.m., I hiked the open trail.

1. Red-eyed Vireo (v)
2. American Goldfinch
3. Black-and-white Warbler
4. Black-capped Chickadee**
5. Northern Cardinal (v)
6. Blue Jay (v)
7. Tufted Titmouse (v)
8. White-breasted Nuthatch (v)
9. Song Sparrow
10. Eastern Towhee
11. Gray Catbird**
12. Yellow Warbler (v)
13. Cedar Waxwing**
14. Northern Flicker (v)
15. Common Yellowthroat
16. Savannah Sparrow (v)
17. American Crow*
18. Baltimore Oriole (v)
19. Northern Parula
20. Alder Flycatcher
21. Yellow-rumped Warbler
22. Ruby-throated Hummingbird
23. Purple Finch
24. Yellow-billed Cuckoo (v)
25. Hermit Thrush (v)

Elsewhere

26. Mourning Dove
27. Herring Gull
28. Rock Pigeon

v = Voice only
*Also elsewhere
**Voice only elsewhere

 

Returned

Saturday, September 28th, 2013
Magnolia warbler, Monhegan Island, Maine, 28 September 2013.

Magnolia warbler, Monhegan.

Up early, birded Monhegan until late morning, got my stuff together, took the Elizabeth Ann back inshore. The water was as smooth as new blacktop, the sun bright, a youthful eagle flapping to a perch on a tall spruce on an island.

Got my dog, put stuff away, took a hike up Beech Hill.

(I’ll compile my Monhegan list soon.)

Beech Hill List
Beginning at 4:15 p.m., I hiked the open trail.

1. Common raven* (v)
2. Yellow-rumped warbler
3. American crow* (v)
4. Black-capped chickadee* (v)
5. Magnolia warbler*
6. Gray catbird** (v)
7. Ruby-crowned kinglet*

Elsewhere

8. Cape May warbler
9. Herring gull
10. Blue jay
11. Northern flicker
12. Golden-crowned kinglet (v)
13. Black-capped chickadee
14. Black-and-white warbler
15. Carolina wren (v)
16. Red-breasted nuthatch (v)
17. Red-eyed vireo
18. Blue-headed vireo
19. Merlin
20. Northern harrier
21. Bald eagle
22. Great black-backed gull
23. Song sparrow
24. Swamp sparrow
25. Northern parula
26. Yellow-bellied sapsucker
27. Black-throated green warbler
28. Eastern phoebe
29. Sharp-shinned hawk
30. White-throated sparrow
31. White-crowned sparrow
32. Northern waterthrush
33. Mallard
34. Double-crested cormorant
35. Black guillemot
36. Semipalmated plover
37. European starling
38. Peregrine falcon
39. American robin
40. Northern mockingbird
41. Yellow-billed cuckoo
42. Yellow warbler
43. Downy woodpecker
44. Northern gannett
45. Laughing gull
46. Palm warbler
47. Mourning dove
48. Brown creeper
49. Cedar waxwing
50. American goldfinch

Magnolia warbler.
 
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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