Bluebird box.
Got to hike Beech Hill twice today, thanks to J. S. asking me to help put half a dozen bluebird boxes on their posts this morning. The temperature when I first looked was 3 degrees (F), but it had gotten to 7 or 8 by the time I met her on the hill. Windy, though. Heard ravens.
The hut in afternoon, Beech Hill Preserve, Rockport, Maine, 05 January 2016.
Within an hour and a half, we’d got the houses attached (J did most of the work), facing east-southeast, then I returned in afternoon with Jack. Still nippy. Didn’t expect to see anyone else—but there were a couple other hikers (as there were this morning, impressively). Not many birds, true, but who could blame ’em?
Still, now, in a couple-three months, when the bluebirds feel like nesting, they’ll have their choice of fine accommodations.
Beech Hill List
Beginning at 10 a.m.—and again at 3 p.m.—I hiked the open trail.
1. Common Raven (v)
2. American Crow*
3. Black-capped Chickadee (v)
4. American Goldfinch** *(v)
5. Yellow-rumped Warbler
Elsewhere
6. Blue Jay (v)
7. White-breasted Nuthatch (v)
8. Herring Gull
9. Rock Pigeon
10. Canada Goose
11. Downy Woodpecker (v)
v = Voice only
*Also elsewhere
**Voice only elsewhere
Tags: American crow, American goldfinch, black-capped chickadee, blue jay, Canada goose, common raven, downy woodpecker, herring gull, rock pigeon, white-breasted nuthatch, yellow-rumped warbler
