Date: 4/2/25 1:34 pm From: Barbara Volkle <barb620...> Subject: [MASSBIRD] 4/1 Sharon Raptors, Ducks, etc.
Thanks to Paul Peterson for this report.
Barbara Volkle Northborough, MA <barb620...>
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Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2025 20:06:47 +0000 (UTC) From: Paul Peterson <petersonpaul63...> Subject: 4/1 Sharon Raptors, Ducks, etc.
Yesterday, I birded in the town of Sharon from 11:50-7:25. I started at the beautiful Beaver Brook Trail, then I hit the Wards Farm Fields, then Moose Hill Audubon Sanctuary, and finally, the marsh at Moose Hill Farm. There was no sign of the Redhead at the farm:
Great Blue Heron 1 Wood Duck 12 American Black Duck 3+ Mallard Duck 2 Hooded Merganser 4 Ring-necked Duck 8 Osprey 1 at nest site Red-shouldered Hawk 2 Sharon Station Killdeer 25 Great Horned Owl 1 calling at dusk Hairy Woodpecker 2 Eastern Phoebe 4 incl. one at train station Common Raven 1 Fish Crow x Brown Creeper 5 American Kestrel 1 Sharon Station FOY Eastern Bluebird 3+ Swamp Sparrow 2 Billings Loop Trail swamp American Tree Sparrow 1 White-throated Sparrow 1 Rusty Blackbird 2+ Beaver Brook Trail; calling, unseen Brown-headed Cowbird ~60 FOY This, That and The Other: Mourning Cloak 1 FOY Snapping Turtle 2 mating or fighting FOY Pickerel or Northern Leopard Frog 1 FOY Spring Peeper 1,000,000 Wood Frog x Eastern Meadow Vole 1 Red Squirrel 1+ Gray Squirre1 3
