Mt. Auburn Cemetery, Middlesex, Massachusetts, US May 18, 2018 6:00 AM - 9:15 AM Protocol: Traveling 1.0 mile(s) Comments: BBC Walk, started at 57 degrees with a stiff NE wind, and it seemed to get cooler as the morning progressed. Two coyotes casing the 'joint'! With at least 45 participants, counts are probably low. 58 [...]
Mt. Auburn Cemetery, Middlesex, Massachusetts, US May 16, 2018 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM Protocol: Traveling 1.0 mile(s) Comments: The third Wednesday evening walk was a relative bonanza compared with the first two, very quiet ones. The hotspot was from Spectacle Pond to the white oak tree above it on Oak Avenue. 35 species (+1 [...]
Parker River NWR, Essex, Massachusetts, US May 14, 2018 6:15 AM - 11:30 AM Protocol: Traveling 13.0 mile(s) Comments: Led BBC walk. Overcast, 58 degrees to start. Kind of quiet. 68 species Brant 23 Beach from lot 1 Canada Goose 7 BFP Gadwall 2 Mallard 1 Common Eider 1 Sandy Pt. Black Scoter 34 From [...]
Westborough WMA, Worcester, Massachusetts, US May 14, 2018 6:00 AM - 8:30 AM Protocol: Traveling 2.7 mile(s) Comments: BBC - Westboro Wildlife Management Area - Nickilas Paulson - 3 participants 53 species Canada Goose 2 Mute Swan 4 Wood Duck 4 Mallard 3 Common Loon 1 Calling Great Blue Heron 2 Green Heron 1 Spotted [...]
Mt. Auburn Cemetery, Middlesex, Massachusetts, US May 13, 2018 6:00 AM - 10:18 AM Protocol: Traveling 2.5 mile(s) Comments: BBC walk, J. Forbes leader. Cool and cloudy, light was pretty awful for the first couple hours. 56 species (+1 other taxa) Canada Goose 1 Mallard (Northern) 1 Wild Turkey 2 Double-crested Cormorant 1 Great Blue [...]
Mt. Auburn Cemetery, Middlesex, Massachusetts, US May 12, 2018 7:00 AM - 11:30 AM Protocol: Traveling 1.0 mile(s) 56 species Canada Goose 1 Mallard 1 Wild Turkey 2 Common Loon 1 Great Blue Heron 1 Cooper's Hawk 1 Red-tailed Hawk 3 Herring Gull 3 Mourning Dove 5 Red-bellied Woodpecker 2 Downy Woodpecker 1 Northern Flicker [...]
Cold Spring Park, Newton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, US May 12, 2018 7:30 AM - 10:00 AM Protocol: Traveling 1.5 mile(s) Comments: Nine birders joined me for a chilly and overcast morning at Cold Spring Park. Bird numbers were a bit down but we did have a good variety. 35 species (+1 other taxa) Mallard 4 Red-tailed [...]
Boston Public Garden, Suffolk, Massachusetts, US May 10, 2018 6:30 AM - 8:45 AM Protocol: Traveling 1.5 mile(s) Comments: BBC Walk, 53 degrees, cloudy with light fog. 15 core group but 5 others intersected with us during the walk 35 species (+1 other taxa) Canada Goose 2 Mute Swan 2 Residents: Romeo and Juliet Mallard [...]
Lowell Cemetery, Middlesex, Massachusetts, US May 10, 2018 6:30 AM - 9:00 AM Protocol: Traveling 1.0 mile(s) Comments: I led a walk co-sponsored by the Lowell Parks & Conservation Trust and Brookline Bird Club for 14 participants along the Concord River Greenway and the western side of Lowell Cemetery on a cool, overcast morning. There [...]
Mt. Auburn Cemetery, Middlesex, Massachusetts, US May 9, 2018 5:00 PM - 6:15 PM Protocol: Traveling 1.0 mile(s) Comments: The opposite of the previous week, it was 56 degrees and breezy. There was so little activity in these conditions that by common agreement we cut the walk short at 6:15. 26 species (+1 other taxa) [...]
