Danehy Park, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, US
Sep 7, 2016 7:30 AM – 9:00 AM
Protocol: Traveling
0.5 mile(s)
Comments: BBC -DanahyPark witn Menotomy bird club. Leader Karsten Hartel; Overcast with off and on rain.
21 species (+1 other taxa)
Canada Goose 2
Double-crested Cormorant 1
Herring Gull 5
Great Black-backed Gull 1
Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon) 9
Mourning Dove 6
Downy Woodpecker 3
Empidonax sp. 1
Eastern Phoebe 1
Warbling Vireo 5
Blue Jay 3
American Crow 1
Black-capped Chickadee 3
American Robin 7
Gray Catbird 4
European Starling 15
Common Yellowthroat 1
Song Sparrow 4
Northern Cardinal 1
Common Grackle 2
American Goldfinch 4
House Sparrow 26
View this checklist online at http://ebird.org/ebird/view/
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Arthur C. Bent (in Life Histories of North American Blackbirds, Orioles, Tanagers and Allies, (New York: Dover, 1965), 294) described flocks of Rusty Blackbirds stretching as far as the eye could see that once migrated
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