Date: 12/9/25 4:17 pm From: 'Paul Peterson' via Boston Birds <bostonbirds...> Subject: [BostonBirds] 12/9 Bald Eagles, Etc. in Jamaica Plain
I birded Wards and Jamaica Ponds in late afternoon until nightfall. Another day another warbler species at Wards Pond
Great Blue Heron 1 Canada Goose 125 arrived at nightfall mostly American Black Duck 2 Green-winged Teal 1 Hooded Merganser 34 Ring-necked Duck 16 Ruddy Duck 2 Bald Eagle 2 eating a duck on the ice; a juvenile and a 2nd year; near dusk Hairy Woodpecker Wards Pond (also saw one on the 7th of December Yellow-rumped Warbler 1 on ice at one point at Wards Pond (Orange-crowned Warbler on the 7th) Musk Rat 2 one in each pond