Waltham Winter List 2009

Once again, taking an idea from the Canadians, here’s a December-February list for Waltham. Dates and locations are the first sighting. Birds in bold are my first Dec-Feb sighting in Waltham.

2007-2008

2008-2009

The List:

  1. Canada Goose (12/2, yard)
  2. Mute Swan (12/5, HP)
  3. Wood Duck (12/13, Purgatory Cove)
  4. American Wigeon (12/5, HP)
  5. American Black Duck (12/13, Purgatory Cove)
  6. Mallard (12/5, HP)
  7. Green-winged Teal (12/5, HP)
  8. Ring-necked Duck (12/19, Charles)
  9. Lesser Scaup (1/17, Charles)
  10. Common Goldeneye (12/23, Charles)
  11. Hooded Merganser (12/5, HP)
  12. Common Merganser (12/5, HP)
  13. Double-crested Cormorant (12/10, Lyman Pond)
  14. Great Blue Heron (12/5, HP)
  15. Turkey Vulture (2/20, Charlesbank)
  16. Bald Eagle (12/18, Purgatory Cove)
  17. Sharp-shinned Hawk (12/13, yard)
  18. Cooper’s Hawk (12/6, yard)
  19. Red-tailed Hawk (12/8, Lexington St)
  20. American Kestrel (12/26, Lot 1)
  21. American Coot (12/13, Charlesbank)
  22. Ring-billed Gull (12/1, WHS)
  23. Herring Gull (12/5, HP)
  24. Lesser Black-backed Gull (2/2, Purgatory Cove)
  25. Great Black-backed Gull (12/5, HP)
  26. Rock Pigeon (12/4, WHS)
  27. Mourning Dove (12/1, Paine)
  28. Eastern Screech-Owl (1/8)
  29. Great Horned Owl (12/4, Miriam)
  30. Belted Kingfisher (12/5, HP)
  31. Red-bellied Woodpecker (12/2, WHS)
  32. Downy Woodpecker (12/1, yard)
  33. Hairy Woodpecker (12/4, Beaver Brook North)
  34. Northern Flicker (12/18, Purgatory Cove)
  35. Blue Jay (12/1)
  36. American Crow (12/1, yard)
  37. Fish Crow (1/13, Charles)
  38. Common Raven (1/2, Cambridge Res)
  39. Black-capped Chickadee (12/1, Paine)
  40. Tufted Titmouse (12/1, Paine)
  41. Red-breasted Nuthatch (12/7, Paine)
  42. White-breasted Nuthatch (12/1, Paine)
  43. Brown Creeper (12/7, Paine)
  44. Carolina Wren (12/13, Purgatory Cove)
  45. Winter Wren (12/25, Lot 1)
  46. Golden-crowned Kinglet (12/1, Paine)
  47. Ruby-crowned Kinglet (2/19, Lot 1)
  48. American Robin (12/1, yard)
  49. Northern Mockingbird (12/2, yard)
  50. European Starling (12/2, yard)
  51. Cedar Waxwing (12/14, Lot 1)
  52. American Tree Sparrow (12/18, Beaver Brook North)
  53. Chipping Sparrow (12/19, Gore Place)
  54. Song Sparrow (12/8, Charles)
  55. White-throated Sparrow (12/1, yard)
  56. Dark-eyed Junco (12/1, yard)
  57. Northern Cardinal (12/1, yard)
  58. Red-winged Blackbird (12/2, WHS)
  59. Common Grackle (12/14, Lot 1)
  60. Common Chaffinch (12/1, yard)
  61. House Finch (12/5, yard)
  62. American Goldfinch (12/2, yard)
  63. House Sparrow (12/1, yard)
  64. Can’t say yet

Big misses: Barrow’s Goldeneye, Tufted Duck

Cumulative total: 86

And new this year:

  1. Autumn Meadowhawk (12/4, Beaver Brook North)