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Delicious Bugs and Spiders

Monday, July 10th, 2017
Yellow Warbler, Beech Hill Preserve, Rockport, Maine, 10 July 2017.

Yellow Warbler.

Gray Catbird, Beech Hill Preserve, Rockport, Maine, 10 July 2017.

Gray Catbird.

Lots of little young birds about today. Young Eastern Towhee, young Veery, young chickadees and sparrows—all making those various thin, insistent, directionless baby-bird sounds—sounds that make parents cram their beaks full of delicious bugs and spiders.

Beech Hill List
Beginning at 8:15 a.m., I hiked the open trail.

1. Chestnut-sided Warbler
2. American Robin*
3. Purple Finch (v)
4. Ovenbird (v)
5. Chipping Sparrow** (v)
6. Eastern Towhee
7. Red-eyed Vireo (v)
8. Black-capped Chickadee
9. American Goldfinch
10. Song Sparrow**
11. Black-throated Green Warbler (v)
12. Field Sparrow
13. Tree Swallow
14. Common Yellowthroat
15. Alder Flycatcher (v)
16. American Crow*
17. Yellow Warbler
18. Northern Cardinal (v)
19. Veery
20. White-breasted Nuthatch
21. Tufted Titmouse
22. American Redstart (v)

Elsewhere

23. Herring Gull
24. Rock Pigeon

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

Young towhee, Beech Hill Preserve, Rockport, Maine, 10 July 2017.

Young towhee.

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