Date: 11/10/25 8:00 pm From: Barbara Volkle <barb620...> Subject: [MASSBIRD] 11/10 Interesting Encounters with the American Redstart, Etc.
Thanks to Paul Peterson for this report.
Barbara Volkle Northborough, MA <barb620...>
* Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2025 23:53:30 +0000 (UTC) From: Paul Peterson <petersonpaul63...> Subject: 11/10 Interesting Encounters with the American Redstart, Etc.
I birded in the Fenway from 12:00-4:00. When I reached the gardens, I saw the American Redstart in its usual place, i.e, the Hackberry tree behind huge plot A-10. (Row A is the asphalt row that also serves as a cut-thru path for people, and runs parallel to Boylston). Shortly afterwards, a vicious mockingbird, attempting to have all the berries for itself, drove the bird off. I waited for about fifteen minutes and gave up. About two hours later, as I was wrapping things up, I made another pass at the hackberry, which is opposite 1179 Boylston St.Sure enough, she was there in the tree. Shortly afterwards, she flew off in the direction of the Muddy River. I went in that direction and refound the bird in the elm tree at the end of ROW D. Shortly after that, the bird seemed to be gone from there, so I went to the plot in ROW D where the bird spends the night. Voila! the bird was in that plot, i.e. Row D-08.
Great Blue Heron 1 Ring-necked Duck 7 Hooded Merganser 1 opposite Avenue Louis Pasteur accipiter sp. 1 Red-tailed Hawk 2 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 1 ROW D in the pine Carolina Wren 1 Gray Catbird 1 ROW D American Redstart 1 Nashville Warbler 1 stunning at the end of ROW X; also in middle of ROW W White-throated Sparrow 30 incl. ten in the yews at Emmanuel College Song Sparrow 10 Swamp Sparrow 1 Dark-eyed Junco 8
