Mt. Auburn Cemetery, Middlesex, Massachusetts, US May 16, 2017 6:00 AM - 8:00 AM Protocol: Traveling 1.0 mile(s) Comments: BBC trip; unknown number of participants 53 species Canada Goose 1 Mute Swan 2 Mallard 2 Double-crested Cormorant 2 Cooper's Hawk 1 Red-tailed Hawk 1 Great Horned Owl 1 Chimney Swift 5 Red-bellied Woodpecker 2 Downy [...]
Westborough WMA, Worcester, Massachusetts, US May 15, 2017 6:00 AM - 7:40 AM Protocol: Traveling 2.5 mile(s) Comments: BBC - Westboro Wildlife Management Area - Nickilas Paulson - trip unattended but a few good migrants. 61 species Canada Goose 2 Wood Duck 4 Mallard 3 Great Blue Heron 1 Turkey Vulture 1 Osprey 1 Red-tailed [...]
Parker River NWR, Essex, Massachusetts, US May 15, 2017 6:20 AM - 10:25 AM Protocol: Traveling 13.0 mile(s) Comments: Led BBC walk. No one showed up. 47 degrees, intermittent to light rain, wind NE 10-20 made it very cold. Last vestiges of the Nor'easter. Hypothermia today, heat stroke Thursday. 57 species Canada Goose 9 Gadwall [...]
Cold Spring Park, Newton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, US May 13, 2017 7:30 AM - 10:00 AM Protocol: Traveling 2.0 mile(s) Comments: Seven birders joined me on this BBC Birding 101 walk. With a temp of about 43F and overcast sky, migrants were pretty quiet. A lot of basics were covered. The highlight was a Solitary Sandpiper, [...]
Lowell Cemetery, Middlesex, Massachusetts, US May 11, 2017 7:00 AM - 9:00 AM Protocol: Traveling 1.0 mile(s) Comments: BBC - Concord River Greenway, Lowell - Leader: Mike Baird - I led a walk for the Lowell Parks and Conservation Trust/Brookline Bird Club that focused on the Concord River Greenway that runs just outside the western [...]
Mt. Auburn Cemetery, Middlesex, Massachusetts, US May 10, 2017 6:00 AM - 8:00 AM Protocol: Traveling 1.0 mile(s) Comments: BBC trip; unknown number of participants 54 species Canada Goose 2 Wild Turkey 2 Great Blue Heron 2 Turkey Vulture 1 Ring-billed Gull 2 Mourning Dove 8 Great Horned Owl 1 Red-bellied Woodpecker 3 Downy Woodpecker [...]
Mt. Auburn Cemetery, Middlesex, Massachusetts, US May 10, 2017 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM Protocol: Traveling 1.0 mile(s) 33 species (+1 other taxa) Mallard 2 Wild Turkey 4 gull sp. 2 Mourning Dove 7 Great Horned Owl 1 Chimney Swift 2 Red-bellied Woodpecker 2 Downy Woodpecker 4 Eastern Phoebe 1 Eastern Kingbird 1 Warbling Vireo [...]
Marblehead Neck Wildlife Sanctuary, Essex, Massachusetts, US May 9, 2017 6:30 AM - 9:00 AM Protocol: Traveling 1.0 mile(s) Comments: BBC walk started sunny and 39 degrees, 49 when we ended. Very quiet to start, but song picked up when it started to warm up. 33 species (+1 other taxa) Mallard 3 Common Loon 1 [...]
Moose Hill Wildlife Sanctuary, Norfolk, Massachusetts, US May 9, 2017 6:00 AM - 7:30 AM Protocol: Traveling 0.5 mile(s) Comments: SSBC/BBC trip 36 species Wild Turkey 3 Red-shouldered Hawk (lineatus Group) 1 Mourning Dove 1 Red-bellied Woodpecker 2 Downy Woodpecker (Eastern) 2 Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted) 2 Pileated Woodpecker 2 Eastern Phoebe 2 Blue Jay 2 [...]
Westborough WMA, Worcester, Massachusetts, US May 8, 2017 5:00 AM - 12:00 PM Protocol: Traveling 6.0 mile(s) Comments: BBC - Westboro Wildlife Management Area - Nickilas Paulson - Nice day of birding, good mix of early migrants and marsh birds. Trip was for two and a half hours, but I continued to hike after adding [...]
