Date: 4/9/24 7:11 pm
From: Barbara Volkle <barb620...>
Subject: [MASSBIRD] 4/8 Osprey In Weston Etc.
Thanks to Paul Peterson for this report.

Barbara Volkle
Northborough, MA
<barb620...>

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Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2024 23:48:00 +0000 (UTC)
From: Paul Peterson <petersonpaul63...>
Subject: 4/8 Osprey In Weston Etc..


I birded in the town of Weston from 11:00-7:15.

cormorant sp. 2
Great Blue Heron 6
Wood Duck 2
American Black Duck 4
Mallard Duck 6
Ring-necked Duck 6
Bufflehead 3
Osprey 1  flyover at Sears Conservation Land
accipiter sp. 1
Cooper's Hawk 1
Red-shouldered Hawk 2
Red-tailed Hawk 4
Wild Turkey 1
Killdeer 1
Great Horned Owl 1 on nest
Belted Kingfisher 2
Pileated Woodpecker 2
Hairy Woodpecker 5
Eastern Phoebe 7
Fish Crow 5  flyover in forest
Common Raven 2  one on nest
Brown Creeper 7
Red-breasted Nuthatch 2
Pine Warbler 5
Fox Sparrow 1 singing sweet song dense thickets north of College Pond;
(same bird I had?? mistook in a previous post for a Purple Finch based
on song)
Swamp Sparrow 1
Rusty Blackbird 40 Jericho Forest singing in pine trees; up trail
opposite Gun Club Lane small parking area
Pine Siskin 20 a flock of ten flyby

MAMMALIA:

Eastern Cottontail 1
Red Squirrel 12 area north of College Pond has many
Gray Squirrel 7
"Black" Squirrel 1 my fourth one this year! (one Brookline, one
Cambridge, one I forget; one Weston)
Eastern Chipmunk 4

REPTILIA and AMPHIBIANS:

Painted Turtle 10
Spring Peeper 10,000,000
Wood Frog 1,000,000
Garter Snake 1

Paul Peterson
<petersonpaul63...>
Boston

 
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