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

View this checklist online at http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S36570226

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