Wednesday 12/14: Moody St had lots of Ring-bills, geese, and mallards. Four Hoodies were about it for anything of interest. Thursday 12/15: Hardy Pond. Wind was away from the pond, so able to scope fairly comfortably. Among the 34 Ruddies and 9 Common Mergansers was an apparent Red-breasted Merganser (would have liked a bit closer [...]
Sunday was the Greater Boston CBC, so I suppose I’m required to post a bit about it. Too cold for many pictures. I got up a little before 6, intending to go owling. That didn’t work out as my car really didn’t want to start. On the third attempt, I finally got it to start [...]
Wednesday 12/7: Hardy Pond in the rain, nothing exciting. Thursday 12/8: Prospect Hill had nothing (and the flooded base was interesting walking). Feeder visitor was back for a good amount of time at night. Friday 12/9: Didn’t get out. Saturday 12/10: Drove around looking for things with snow in the name. Didn’t find any. Nice [...]
Wednesday 11/30: Started for Moody St, looked like the gull numbers were way lower today so hit the regular part of the river walk instead. Saw very little (more turtles than birds beyond the railroad bridge). Thursday 12/1: Hardy Pond on the way to work: 1 Ruddy, 3 Common Mergansers. BBN (all around the marsh) [...]
Wednesday 11/23: Quick scan of Hardy Pond and Cambridge Res didn’t appear to have anything new, although it was too cold and nasty to bother getting the scope out. Thursday 11/24: Out to New Salem for Thanksgiving. Heard a Pileated but a walk through the center of town didn’t find anything. Friday 11/25: Stopped at [...]
A few photos from chasing around Essex county yesterday: Cassin’s Kingbird (4th state record) Northern Shrike Sandhill Cranes calling (and vaguely visible) A few more photos
It’s been back off and on (probably depending more on how often we look). Finally got some good pictures tonight. First one was taken from inside with only the light above the door. I was quite happy with the result for a few minutes. Until I walked outside and found out how tame they can [...]
Wednesday 11/16: Lot 1 had nothing unusual. Thursday 11/17: Hardy Pond: 1 coot, 1 hoodie, 20ish Ruddy, 2 Great Blue Heron. Cambridge Res: nothing on the first scan but eventually saw a large, dark thing way off. That was a Herring Gull, but scoping that general area turned up a small flock. In the flock, [...]
Sunday was supposed to be the last BBC pelagic of the year (actually the Saturday before but bad weather pushed it back). At the last minute, I decided to go and then spend Monday on the Cape, finally getting around to chasing the Brown Booby and anything else that was around. Unfortunately the trip was [...]
Wednesday 11/9: Rock Meadow had nothing exciting. Thursday 11/10: Common Merganser, couple Hoodies, few Ruddy at Hardy Pond. More Ruddy and Hoodie at Cambridge Res. Friday 11/11: Checked a few ponds midmorning. North end of the Cambridge Res had Hooded Mergansers. Flint’s Pond had Common Goldeneye, Bufflehead, and mergansers. Cambridge Res had a Long-tailed Duck [...]