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 Red-bellied.

27 species (+1 other taxa)

Canada Goose  17

Mute Swan  2

Mallard  13

American Black Duck  3

Green-winged Teal  3

Ring-necked Duck  17

Greater/Lesser Scaup  1    Ed noticed it with the Ring-necked Ducks. Likely Greater but it was a bit distant and I think we can’t be sure. It had a rounder seeming head that was held low and forward.

Bufflehead  12

Ruddy Duck  2

Mourning Dove  3

Killdeer  4

Red-tailed Hawk  2    2 first year birds

Red-bellied Woodpecker  2    Having a fight with a Flicker, perhaps because the Flicker was investigating a cavity made by the Red-bellied. Can’t be sure the casue of the fight.

Downy Woodpecker  3

Northern Flicker  2    Having a fight with a Red-bellied

Blue Jay  2

Fish Crow  1

Black-capped Chickadee  1

White-breasted Nuthatch  2

European Starling  6

Northern Mockingbird  1

American Robin  12

House Sparrow  7

Dark-eyed Junco  4

Song Sparrow  7

Red-winged Blackbird  18

Common Grackle  4

Northern Cardinal  4

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S219177193