Date: 3/26/25 4:09 pm From: Barbara M Volkle <barb620...> Subject: [MASSBIRD] 3/25 Great Pond Raptors and Ducks, EtcThanks to Paul Peterson for this report.
Thanks to Paul Peterson for this report.
Barbara Volkle Northborough, MA <barb620...>
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Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2025 20:04:13 +0000 (UTC) From: Paul Peterson <petersonpaul63...> Subject: 3/25 Great Pond Raptors and Ducks, Etc
This place straddles the Randolph-Braintree border.I birded this very large, peaceful place yesterday from 3:10-7:00p.m. I walked around the entire southern half, including the dike. Things really got cooking towards the end. That's when I was looking at a line of six Gadwalls with my bins while an adult BALD EAGLE was walking along the shore behind them, AND a Barred Owl was calling from the woods. This happened around 6:05 p.m.
GADWALL 11 five at the southmost area; six a bit north from them Common Merganser 16 Common Goldeneye 8 Ruddy Duck 29 Ring-necked Duck 9 one of the side wetlands Bufflehead 10 Bald Eagle 2 parent and young on same boulder in boulders area Red-shouldered Hawk 2 BARRED OWL 2 Killdeer 1 Eastern Phoebe 1 Fish Crow 7+ Carolina Wren 3
