Thursday April 21, 2016

Thursday April 21,

On Thursday my friend and I decided to go to Mt. Philo for our birding adventure. We parked her truck and began our ascent up the hill. We noticed that it oddly quiet for about half of the trip up the first bird we heard was the caw of an American Crow. Then slowly as we neared the top we heard a few more Black-capped Chickadees. We heard many of them at the top. All along the top we heard a few American Robins. As we were making out way to different vantage points to see the amazing view of the Adirondack mountains we also kept an eye out for any birds flying below or above us. We did not come across any. we crossed the top to the more wooded side of the hill and looked into the trees. That is where we saw one male American Goldfinch and what we determined was some sort of flycatcher. It had the body shape of a flycatcher and wasn't too big of a bird. It looked like there were maybe two all together. On our way down we decided to take a different path that lead us to what was called the Devil's Chair. As we came to the Devil's Chair we heard a White-breasted Nuthatch call. We hung out at that rock formation for a little bit and possibly heard an owl but we weren't able to confirm or deny this. We decided to stay longer to watch the sunset from the parking lot so we turned my friend's truck around and sat in the bed and listened as the sun sank. Which is where we heard many Red-winged Blackbird calls. There were at least seven of them. We also got to see three Northern Flickers fly off to another edge of the woods. One of them was a female. We also heard a bird calling from behind us which what we thought was a Northern Cardinal. We weren't 100% sure so I went into the red pines to see if I could either get a better look or to flush the bird out so my friend could see it. We were able to see it and determine that it was a male Northern Cardinal.

Posted on April 22, 2016 03:42 AM by npeatman