Wednesday 11/2: Prospect Hill: 2 deer, very few birds. Thursday 11/3: Duck ponds were having tree work so ended at Rock Meadow. Fourteen turkeys at the entrance to the gardens, a sapsucker and hermit thrush in them. Coot, Ruddies, and a Kingfisher on Hardy Pond in the afternoon. Friday 11/4: Purgatory Cove had the usual [...]
Wednesday 10/26: River walk for a change, phoebe, few warblers, nothing but mallards on the water. Thursday 10/27: Hardy Pond and Cambridge Res in the rain: Ruddies on both, huge raft of coots on the res. Friday 10/28: BBN at lunch: Bunch of Hermit Thrushes, phoebe, lots of common sparrows and juncos. Ran over to [...]
Some highlights from a snow-filled Waltham St. Fields today. Unhappy Killdeer Chipping Sparrow posing nicely ‘Yellow’ Palm Warbler Dickcissel Lark Sparrow continues Have a suspicion that there were two birds, although these photos are all of one.
Wednesday 10/19: Hardy Pond had 1 Ring-neck. Thursday 10/20: Purgatory Cove: 7ish Green-winged Teal, 1 Blue-winged Teal, 1 Gadwall, 2 American Wigeon, 15ish Wood Duck, 4 Coot. Friday 10/21: BBN was quiet. Saturday 10/22: In Westport for the day but not birding. Did have a Peregrine, many Tree Swallows and a few other things driving [...]
Wednesday 10/12: Purgatory Cove: 9 Wigeon (5 cove, 4 river), Hooded Merganser, 3 Green-winged Teal Thursday 10/13: Hardy Pond: First of fall Ruddy. Friday 10/14: Duck Ponds: lots of grackles, robins, yellow-rumps. Saturday 10/15: Led MBC walk to Waltham St. Fields and Dunback. Not a whole lot of birds at either. Best with the group [...]
Wednesday 10/5: Purgatory Cove: bunch of Green-winged Teal, first of fall juncos. Thursday 10/6: Prospect Hill before work: lots of White-throats, Black-and-white, many flyover Yellow-rumps and Blackpolls. Beaver Brook at lunch: Blue-headed Vireo, more Yellow-rumps and a Palm were about it. Friday 10/7: Prospect Hill again, zip. Saturday 10/8: More or less stayed in for [...]
The long weekend provided lots of birds. Sunday was the Big Sit, so I spent the day at the tower by parking lot 7 on Plum Island with Joshua Rose and Nick Paulson. Felt slower than last year but we ended up with 72 species (plus several things like peep sp) so it couldn’t have [...]
Wednesday 9/28: Prospect Hill was very quiet. Thursday 9/29: Saw something. Nothing at the Cambridge Res later. Friday 9/30: Duck ponds were pretty quiet. Finally able to crawl through the fallen trees though and do a full loop. Saturday 10/1: Joined the Menotomy trip to Dunback: Chat, few other warblers, exotic finch, heard-only Dickcissel. Arlington [...]
Nice series of events last night and this morning: 1. Laptop keyboard and trackpad stops working. 2. Make Apple store appointment for the morning. 3. Decide that even though it’s raining, might as well stop at Arlington Res on the way and hopefully find the Blue Grosbeak. 4. Arrive at Arlington Res, take quick look [...]
Wednesday 9/21: BBN had one good flock of warblers including 3+ Blackpolls, a BT Green, a Parula, and a Nashville. Thursday 9/22: Cambridge Res at lunch: 5 yellowlegs, both Greater and Lesser. Not a whole lot else, Spotted Sandpipers, Solitary Sandpiper, Killdeer, herons. Blackpoll from the yard. Friday 9/23: Purgatory Cove: 6 GW Teal, 1 [...]