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