Wednesday 2/15: Duck ponds had lots of the usual. Thursday 2/16: Woodpeckers, robins, and juncos at BBN. Friday 2/17: Purgatory Cove: a few Ring-necks were joined by a Greater Scaup (Charles #131), plus various mergansers. No good gulls though. Saturday 2/18: Towhee, also the usual Cape Ann stuff. Sunday 2/19: Walked BBN. Nothing much at [...]
Wednesday 2/8: Ended up at Lone Tree Hill in Belmont, nothing interesting. Thursday 2/9: Purgatory Cove: 14 swans, 3 coot, the Lesser Black-back. Friday 2/10: West Meadow had lots of robins, white-throats, and woodpeckers. Saturday 2/11: MBC trip to Horn Pond was pretty quiet. Stopped for the Red-throated Loon on the Mystic Lakes on the [...]
Wednesday 2/1: Duck ponds were fairly quiet, six hoodies were about it (although 2 Ring-billed Gulls on the ice were unusual for the spot). Thursday 2/2: Morning stop at Hardy Pond: 4 Common Merganser. Nothing much at Prospect Hill at lunch, big flock of robins was about it. Eagle showed up at Hardy Pond, got [...]
Wednesday 1/25: Forest Grove and Flowed Meadow: picked out the Lesser Black-back on the ice and there were a few coots around. Walking to the landfill and around was a waste though. Thursday 1/26: Paine was quiet. Friday 1/27: Rainy. Saturday 1/28: Planned to go scan the Middlesex county portion of the Merrimack and then [...]
Wednesday 1/18: River walk had first of year Bufflehead and a female had joined the male goldeneye. Thursday 1/19: Nothing at Beaver Brook. Friday 1/20: Iceland Gull was almost a driveby at Moody St. Nothing else good among the gulls (although the Lesser was apparently around later). Two Ring-necks at the Woerd Ave boat ramp [...]
Wednesday 1/11: Charles had all the usual stuff. Thursday 1/12: Too rainy. Friday 1/13: Too windy (and possibly rainy) at Purgatory Cove, couldn’t find anything good. Coots were just down from Norumbega, nothing at Charlesbank. Saturday 1/14: Poked around the Charles a bit. Iceland Gull, 2 goldeneye, 3 Ring-necks were about it. Sunday 1/15: Too [...]
Wednesday 1/4: Hardy Pond: few mergansers, swans, geese, gulls. Not much still open. Thursday 1/5: Lot 1 had 6 waxwings and 19 turkeys. Friday 1/6: Duck ponds were mostly frozen but had the usual Mallard, Black, and Hooded Merganser. Also 10 turkeys and a Winter Wren (#84 for the site). Saturday 1/7: Walked from home [...]
Wednesday 12/28: BBN: coyote, 7 Song Sparrows in one bush, lots of juncos, not much else. Thursday 12/29: Paine, nothing exciting. Friday 12/30: Purgatory Cove was frozen. The river was still somewhat open. Lots of mallards and black ducks, plus many gulls on the ice. Twelve or so coots visible (and a few more from [...]
Wednesday 12/21: Hardy Pond had very little. Cambridge Res had a ton of Hoodies along with Wigeon, Ruddy, Black Duck, Mallard, and Common Mergansers. Squirrel came back for the first time in a few weeks. Thursday 12/22: BBN had a flicker, 3 red-wings (should have walked that part Sunday I guess) and a ton of [...]
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 [...]