Hermit Thrush.
April is certainly a month of change. Days of cold and snow, days of warmth, days of wind, of rain. Early birds arrive before the new hardwood leaves to get a jump on things. Motion, growth, surge. Today was overcast and damp at first, but the sky soon turned into a quick-moving parade of white clouds—and the moving shadows that go along with such a sky.
Slept in a little. Worked a little. Hit Beech hill with dog in late morning.
Inland Hills.
We met a fairly high wind, actually. And the clouds were absolutely screaming across the sky, moving from the west. Sweeping across the landscape were great dark swaths and great light swaths, one after the other. It seemed to me like some kind of sky dance.
Did get fairly close to a Hermit Thrush. And saw a solitary Kestrel in the long oak tree. Ran into a young family hiking through the woods.
Also saw a deer.
Beech Hill List
Beginning at 11 a.m., I hiked all trails.
1. Black-capped Chickadee*
2. American Robin*
3. Eastern Phoebe
4. American Goldfinch
5. White-throated Sparrow (v)
6. Hermit Thrush
7. American Crow*
8. Song sparrow**
9. Herring Gull*
10. House Finch (v)
11. Brown-headed Cowbird (v)
12. Blue Jay (v)
13. American Kestrel
14. Northern Flicker (v)
15. Pileated Woodpecker (v)
16. Northern Cardinal** (v)
Elsewhere
17. House Sparrow (v)
18. Mallard
19. Rock Pigeon
20. Mourning Dove
v = Voice only
*Also elsewhere
**Voice only elsewhere
Tags: American crow, American goldfinch, American kestrel, American robin, black-capped chickadee, blue jay, brown-headed cowbird, eastern phoebe, hermit thrush, herring gull, house finch, house sparrow, mallard, mourning dove, northern cardinal, northern flicker, pileated woodpecker, rock pigeon, song sparrow, white-throated sparrow
