Date: 3/18/26 9:57 am From: 'Paul Peterson' via Boston Birds <bostonbirds...> Subject: [BostonBirds] 3/17 Gray Catbird in West Roxbury, etc.
I birded in fabulous West Roxbury yesterday from !2:30-7:00, along the wild corridor' My final and forty-fourth bird of the day was the GRAY CATBIRD in Brook Farm Reservation! It is truly hard to believe that you're within the Boston city limits when you're in parts of West Roxbury, especially Brook Farm:
Great Blue Heron 2
Green-winged Teal 13 Max. 9+4 marshy river area
Wood Duck 14 6+5+2+1
American Black Duck 14
Mallard Duckx
LESSER SCAUP 1 found by Ted B. on March 16 Cow Island Pond
Ring-necked Duck 35
Hooded Merganser 7 4+1+2
Common Merganser 5 Cow Island Pond (not really a pond, but a wide area of the Charles R.)
Red-shouldered Hawk 1 call coming from Pine Island
Red-tailed Hawk 1
hawk sp.2
Killdeer 6 together on Cow Is.
Wilson's Snipe 2 Millennium P.; flushed
American Woodcock 2 flushed; one no man's land, other down Rivermoor Rd.
Belted Kingfisher 1 St. Joseph Cem.; later Millennium P.
Northern Flicker 1
Fish Crow 3+
Carolina Wren 1
GRAY CATBIRD 1 Brook Farm
Song Sparrow 33 mostly St. Joseph Cem.
White-throated Sparrow 6 with the catbird
Dark-eyed Junco 5
American Goldfinch 5
WHITE_TAILED DEER 4 heartening to know they're still in Boston
