All the winter journals are coming out and Harry gets several mentions. In American Birds (the Christmas Bird Count Summary), Wayne Petersen, in the New England summary, writes: Top billing for the 110th New England CBC belongs to the Common Chaffinch on the Greater Boston count. Although the bird’s provenance may never be known with [...]
Crowns Cooperative bird at Busa Farm on Saturday. And at Danehy Park Sunday. Somehow didn’t notice the missing tail in the field. Like the superlong twig-leg.
With the 3 day weekend, I was out and about for most of it. Saturday started with a walk around Beaver Brook North. I began by retracing the route of last week’s walk. Fewer warblers and sparrows but 4 Eastern Bluebirds were new. On the way back, I continued through the Met State portion of [...]
Today’s highlight was a Baird’s Sandpiper at the northern end of the Cambridge Res. When there was one (or two) here a few years ago, views were way distant and in bad light. Today’s bird started at medium range and ended up being the closest bird to the road (within 5 feet!). Slightly larger size [...]
Not going to write up a full report (will link to the BBC page when it’s online) but the overnight pelagic was quite spectacular. One of the first birds was a Great Skua and things got better from there. By midmorning of the second day, the following announcement was made: “To put things in perspective, [...]
After this morning’s birding, I came home, watched tennis, and then took a nap. Not too long after getting up, the doorbell rang. John Hines was passing by and figured I might want to know that he just had found a Yellow-crowned Night-Heron at the Cambridge Res. After last year’s screwup, this was a very [...]
The big highlight from Rock Meadow today was a family of Orchard Orioles. I’ve been hoping to confirm breeding for several years now and finally succeed today. Youngster What? Mom and a youngster Someone’s hungry Mom taking a break. Update: Coincidentally, great video from Lang Elliot was posted today (7/20).
Took a few tries (midday heat and checking 20 yards over) but finally found the Yellow-throated Vireo this morning. Parking lot is in Waltham, so standing there until he sang got me #185.
Finally, a 2010 tick. Olive-sided Flycatcher, Metropolitan Parkway South, #184 in Waltham (thanks Paul) Into the afternoon sun at a good distance so this is the best out of 15 or so shots.
Saturday was Mass Audubon’s annual birdathon. Because I lead the Sunday Mt. Auburn trip, I try to avoid going all out and decided to stick to Waltham as much as possible. The event actually starts at 6PM Friday, so I stepped outside just after 6 to get the yard birds out of the way. The [...]