Highlights of walk at BH (includes a lifer: Yellow-bellied Sapsucker)

Started off great with two bluejays and a cardinal in one tree.

Heard a raven!  (Second time, first being last weekend along the river in Orleans.)  Saw him/her flying afterward but from a distance through the trees.  Love ravens.

Goldfinch!  In a tree in the open area.  My first sighting of the year.

Yellow-bellied sapsucker!  A lifer!  Well, at least I'm pretty sure that's what it was.  Vibrant red over the head, much larger red area than on the downies/hairies and definitely wasn't a pileated, and the call was totally consistent with the one on my Audubon app.

Also several garter snakes and a toad.



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