Black-and-white warbler.
Busy ol’ rainy, drippy, foggy day. Rainiest year I can remember. But I had indoor work to attend to—including clearing out a datacenter cabinet I started using a decade ago. (Both a huge relief and mildly nostalgic.) Finally, Jack and I took a foggy ol’ hike up and down Beech Hill.
Woodland fog.
And by “foggy ol’ hike,” I mean just that. About as foggy as you can get. Occasionally a little breeze would pick up and the trees would begin to drip like rain. Mosquitos buzzin’. Birds flitting about secretively. Saw and/or heard quite a few, in fact—many, of course, concerned about their young ‘uns. At one point, a yellow warbler started yelling at us from a nearby tree, which lured a titmouse over, which lured a redstart over—and three birds were yelling at us. Another time, in the woods, I happened to spot a black-throated green warbler foraging low in the understory. Too dim for a photo, though, alas.
All in all, though, a lovely, foggy, soggy, muddy, damp, momentous day.
Beech Hill List
Beginning at 4:30 p.m., I hiked all trails.
1. Red-eyed vireo** (v)
2. Ovenbird** (v)
3. Chestnut-sided warbler (v)
4. Black-throated green warbler
5. Veery
6. Black-capped chickadee (v)
7. Black-and-white warbler**
8. Eastern wood-pewee (v)
9. Cedar waxwing (v)
10. Tufted titmouse**
11. White-breasted nuthatch (v)
12. Hairy woodpecker
13. American robin*
14. Hermit thrush (v)
15. Scarlet tanager (v)
16. Eastern towhee
17. Gray catbird**
18. Common yellowthroat**
19. American goldfinch (v)
20. Song sparrow**
21. Savannah sparrow
22. Yellow warbler**
23. American crow*
24. Field sparrow (v)
25. American redstart**
26. Northern cardinal** (v)
27. Herring gull*
Elsewhere
28. European starling
29. Common grackle
30. Rock pigeon
31. Mourning dove
v = Voice only
*Also elsewhere
**Voice only elsewhere
Tags: American crow, American goldfinch, American redstart, American robin, black-and-white warbler, black-capped chickadee, black-throated green warbler, Cedar waxwing, chestnut-sided warbler, common grackle, common yellowthraot, eastern towhee, eastern wood-pewee, European starling, field sparrow, gray catbird, hairy woodpecker, hermit thrush, herring gull, mourning dove, northern cardinal, ovenbird, red-eyed vireo, rock pigeon, savannah sparrow, scarlet tanager, song sparrow, tufted titmouse, veery, white-breasted nuthatch, yellow warbler
