Vernal equinox walk, Newburyport & vicinity – 3/22/2025

Newburyport & vicinity, Essex, Massachusetts, US Mar 22, 2025 9:00 AM - 7:00 PM Protocol: Traveling 25.0 mile(s) Checklist Comments:    Cashman Park, Salisbury Beach, Parker River NWR, Scotland Road, Cherry Hill Reservoir, West Newbury 64 species Brant  5 Canada Goose  250 Mute Swan  8 Wood Duck  5 Gadwall  10 Mallard  72 American Black Duck 

Alewife Brook woodcock walk – 3/20/2025

Alewife Brook Reservation, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, US Mar 20, 2025 7:00 PM - 7:35 PM Protocol: Traveling 0.19 mile(s) Checklist Comments:    BBC trip.  Not much woodcock aerial display again tonight.  Party size estimate attempts to only capture those explicitly there for BBC trip, not others. 6 species (+1 other taxa) Canada Goose  12 Mallard 

Ipswich River Park woodcock walk – 3/18/2025

Ipswich River Park, Central St., North Reading, Middlesex, Massachusetts, US Mar 18, 2025 6:18 PM - 7:28 PM Protocol: Stationary Checklist Comments:    Led BBC walk. 6 species Canada Goose  5    Flyovers honking American Woodcock  5    Minimum.  Took a while, but then the show really got going. American Robin  7 Song Sparrow  1

Alewife Brook woodcock walk – 3/16/2025

Alewife Brook Reservation, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, US Mar 16, 2025 7:00 PM - 7:30 PM Protocol: Traveling 0.18 mile(s) Checklist Comments:    BBC trip.  party size is approximate.  didn't pay close attention to non-woodcock birds given the large group size and the relatively early darkness due to overcast skies. 5 species (+1 other taxa) Canada

Neponset River Trail – 3/16/2025

Neponset River Trail, Milton US-MA 42.27070, -71.06589, Norfolk, Massachusetts, US Mar 16, 2025 8:47 AM - 11:04 AM Protocol: Traveling 1.901 mile(s) Checklist Comments:    Overcast, upper 50s 23 species (+1 other taxa) Canada Goose  2 Mallard  4 Bufflehead  5 Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon)  27    One all white pigeon Mourning Dove  8 gull sp. 

Arlington Reservoir – 3/16/2025

Arlington Reservoir, Middlesex, Massachusetts, US Mar 16, 2025 7:57 AM - 9:40 AM Protocol: Traveling 1.05 mile(s) Checklist Comments:    27 of us (maybe 28). BBC and Menotomy BC  co-sponsored walk. Interesting to see a Red-bellied Woodpecker have a conflict with a Northern Flicker which may have been investigating a fresh cavity made by the

Rock Meadow, Belmont, Family Woodcock walk – 3/16/2025

Rock Meadow Conservation Area, Belmont, Middlesex, Massachusetts, US Mar 16, 2025 6:26 PM - 7:55 PM Protocol: Traveling 1.162 mile(s) Checklist Comments:    Brookline Bird Club Family Woodcock Walk- Leaders: Kathy Dia and Naeem Yusuff. 9 species Wood Duck  2 Mallard  4 Mourning Dove  1 American Woodcock  6 Great Blue Heron  1 American Robin  14

Halibut Point, Rockport – 3/16/2025

Halibut Point SP, Essex, Massachusetts, US Mar 16, 2025 7:56 AM - 10:28 AM Protocol: Traveling 1.621 mile(s) Checklist Comments:    BBC - Halibut Point State Park, Rockport, Morning - Leader: Peter Van Demark - foggy, breeze, 40s 25 species Brant  19    Flew by in several groups Mallard  10 Common Eider  9 Harlequin Duck 

Rock Meadow, Belmont, Woodcock walk – 3/12/2025

Rock Meadow Conservation Area, Belmont, Middlesex, Massachusetts, US Mar 12, 2025 7:00 PM - 7:50 PM Protocol: Traveling 1.0 mile(s) Checklist Comments:    BBC Woodcock Bird Walk at Rock Meadow.  The full moon helped illuminate the birds' flight. 4 species Wood Duck  2 American Woodcock  8 Song Sparrow  2 Red-winged Blackbird  1 View this checklist

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