Boston Public Garden, Suffolk, Massachusetts, US
May 4, 2017 6:30 AM – 9:00 AM
Protocol: Traveling
1.0 mile(s)
Comments: BBC trip with 25 participants beside the leader including 12 from the Learning Project. It was 59 degrees and sunny ( but still needed gloves!).
46 species (+1 other taxa)
Canada Goose 4
Mute Swan 2 Romeo and Juliet returned to the Garden this week
Mallard 12
Northern Shoveler 1 Seen fraternizing with a female Mallard
Double-crested Cormorant 1
Great Blue Heron 1
Black-crowned Night-Heron 1
Red-tailed Hawk 1
Spotted Sandpiper 2
gull sp. 6
Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon) 6
Mourning Dove 1
Chimney Swift 10
Ruby-throated Hummingbird 1
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 2 Late – Continuing birds
Downy Woodpecker 1
Least Flycatcher 1
Blue Jay 2
Black-capped Chickadee 1
White-breasted Nuthatch 1
Brown Creeper 1
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 1
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 6
American Robin 10
Gray Catbird 1
European Starling 3
Ovenbird 1
Northern Waterthrush 2
Black-and-white Warbler 8
Nashville Warbler 1
Common Yellowthroat 3
American Redstart 1
Northern Parula 5
Yellow Warbler 1
Black-throated Blue Warbler 2
Palm Warbler (Yellow) 4
Yellow-rumped Warbler 25
Prairie Warbler 1
Black-throated Green Warbler 1
Chipping Sparrow 5
White-throated Sparrow 10
Savannah Sparrow 1
Red-winged Blackbird 1
Common Grackle 5
Baltimore Oriole 1
American Goldfinch 3
House Sparrow 15
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