Cold Spring Park, Newton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, US

May 4, 2019 7:30 AM – 10:00 AM

Protocol: Traveling

2.0 mile(s)

Comments:    52F, calm, overcast, two periods of drizzle. We watched the Cooper’s Hawk chase a Great Horned Owl as it flew past the Hawk. The owl was spooked either by the crows or by the number of us, looking at it. I believe this is a young owl with its mother.

43 species

Canada Goose  6

Wood Duck  2

Mallard  6

Mourning Dove  3

Green Heron  1

Cooper’s Hawk  1

Red-tailed Hawk  2

Eastern Screech-Owl  1

Great Horned Owl (Great Horned)  2

Red-bellied Woodpecker  7

Downy Woodpecker (Eastern)  5

Hairy Woodpecker (Eastern)  1

Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted)  2

Great Crested Flycatcher  1

Blue-headed Vireo  1

Blue Jay  3

American Crow  3

Common Raven  1

Black-capped Chickadee  4

Tufted Titmouse  4

White-breasted Nuthatch (Eastern)  4

House Wren (Northern)  1

Carolina Wren  1

Blue-gray Gnatcatcher  1

Ruby-crowned Kinglet  4

Hermit Thrush  1

American Robin  8

Gray Catbird  4

European Starling  4

Cedar Waxwing  8

American Goldfinch  7

Chipping Sparrow  1

White-throated Sparrow  3

Song Sparrow  4

Red-winged Blackbird  4

Brown-headed Cowbird  6

Common Grackle  11

Ovenbird  1

Black-and-white Warbler  4

Nashville Warbler  1

Yellow Warbler  1

Black-throated Green Warbler  1

Northern Cardinal  2

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S55884776