Boston November 21

From Bob Stymeist (all pictures by Bob):

 

Today (Sunday, Nov 21) three friends joined me on a Brookline Bird Club trip  to many inner city parks in Boston. We started at Christopher Columbus Park to visit the resident Lesser Black-backed Gull, then on to the Rose Kennedy Greenway (RKG) to the Public Garden (PG), the Fenway, Olmsted Park, Jamaica Pond, Arnold Arboretum, Franklin Park, Forest Hills, Boston Nature Center (BNC) and ended the day at Chestnut Hill Reservoir and Chandler Pond in Brighton. Pretty windy and cold temperatures kept the number of species down to 47 species.

Boston 7:15-4:30PM  37-44F

Canada Goose  223

Mute Swan   5

Am. Black Duck  29

Mallard  207

scaup, sp   4

Bufflehead  4

Hooded Merganser  31

Ruddy Duck  30

Double crested Cormorant  3

Great Blue Heron  7

Cooper's Hawk   4

Red-tailed Hawk  9

Peregrine Falcon  2   (spectacular dive from top of International Place to Fort Point Channel- success with -best guess- a Starling)

American Coot  30

Ring-billed, Herring gulls

Lesser Black-backed Gull  1  

Great Black-backed Gull 4

Rock Pigeon  141

Mourning Dove  9

BARRED OWL  1  (Fenway- The Fenway in Willow tree) 

Belted Kingfisher  (Chandler Pond)

Red-bellied Woodpecker  4

Downy Woodpecker  4

Blue Jay  35 American Crow  245

Fish Crow  22

Chickadee  28

Titmouse 16

Red breasted Nuthatch  1

White-breasted Nuthatch 16

Carolina Wren  1

Golden-crowned Kinglet  2

Hermit Thrush  3 (1-RKG, 2-PG)  http://www.flickr.com/photos/rstymeist/5196434543/in/photostream/

American Robin 110

Mockingbird  7

Starling  55

Palm Warbler  1 (FVG)

Field Sparrow  1 (BNC)

Fox Sparrow  1 (FHC)

Song Sparrow  38

Swamp Sparrow  1 (RKG)

white-crowned Sparrow  1 (BNC)

Dark-eyed Junco  70

Cardinal  20

House Finch  14

Goldfinch  36

House Sparrow  28