Boston Nature Center Wildlife Sanctuary, Suffolk, Massachusetts, US
Oct 22, 2016 8:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Protocol: Traveling
3.5 mile(s)
Comments:     One of the quietest fall days I’ve had at BNC but did have some good birds.Mild in low 60’s with clouds and occasional mist.
Also had two white-tailed deer and two monarch butterflies.
32 species

Wild Turkey  12
Cooper’s Hawk  1
Red-tailed Hawk  1
Killdeer  1
Ring-billed Gull  1
Herring Gull  2
Mourning Dove  5
Red-bellied Woodpecker  1
Downy Woodpecker  4
Northern Flicker  1
Merlin  1
Blue Jay  30
Black-capped Chickadee  5
White-breasted Nuthatch  1
Carolina Wren  1
American Robin  24
Gray Catbird  1
Northern Mockingbird  3
European Starling  3
Blackpoll Warbler  4
Yellow-rumped Warbler  5
Prairie Warbler  1     late
Dark-eyed Junco  3
White-throated Sparrow  15
Song Sparrow  7
Swamp Sparrow  4
Red-winged Blackbird  2
Common Grackle  30
Baltimore Oriole  1     1st yr female – bright breast,white below, drab brownish on head and neck
House Finch  1
American Goldfinch  20
House Sparrow  35

View this checklist online at http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S32168893

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