Alewife Brook Reservation, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, US
23-Mar-2023 19:00 – 19:46
Checklist Comments:    BBC woodcock trip.  Best one in years.  Warm weather, wind died down, not wet.  Party size is an estimate as we picked up a number of folks along the way.  It may have been larger than this.  Only down side to the evening was another group of people walking in/near the leks with flashlights on.
8 species
Canada Goose  7
Mallard  4
Killdeer  1
American Woodcock  5    # estimate likely on the low side
Black-crowned Night-Heron  1    flying silently eastward roughly following the Little River
American Robin  8
Song Sparrow  1
Common Grackle  15
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