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/
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