Franklin Park 5/2

From Bob Mayer:

More than 30 people joined this nice walk through the Resting Place and Scarborough Pond sections of Franklin Park in Boston. We had several species that were FOY for most of us including 6 warbler species. Hairy Woodpecker was our last bird, a nice way to end. Complete List:
Location: Franklin Park
Observation date: 5/2/10
Notes: temp 65 clouds
Number of species: 40

Canada Goose 12
Mallard 10
Herring Gull 2
Rock Pigeon 6
Mourning Dove 4
Chimney Swift 2
Red-bellied Woodpecker 1 heard
Hairy Woodpecker 1
Northern Flicker 1
Eastern Kingbird 2
Blue-headed Vireo 1
Warbling Vireo 4
Blue Jay 3
American Crow 20
Tree Swallow 2
Barn Swallow 2
Black-capped Chickadee 4
Tufted Titmouse 1
White-breasted Nuthatch 2
Hermit Thrush 2
American Robin X
Gray Catbird 7
Brown Thrasher 1
European Starling 6
Nashville Warbler 1 heard
Northern Parula 3
Yellow Warbler 1
Yellow-rumped Warbler X
Palm Warbler 1
Ovenbird 1 heard
Chipping Sparrow 2
Song Sparrow 3
White-throated Sparrow 4
Northern Cardinal 2
Red-winged Blackbird 12
Common Grackle X
Brown-headed Cowbird 2
Baltimore Oriole 4
American Goldfinch 1
House Sparrow 5

Mt. Auburn 5/1

Lots and lots of birds and birders at Mt. Auburn today. Highlights from the BBC walk:

Wood Duck - 2 flyover
Common Loon - flyover going west
Green Heron - flyover
Cooper's Hawk - 1
hawk sp - interesting bird flew by as I was leaving, not a Cooper's and not a Red-tail but didn't get much on it
Blue-headed Vireo - 3+
Warbling Vireo - 1 Dell/tower
Hermit Thrush - 6+ (also heard of Veery in the Dell)
Gray Catbird - several
Cedar Waxwing - everywhere
Nashville Warbler - 3+
Northern Parula - 3+
Black-throated Blue Warbler - 2
Yellow-rumped Warbler - everywhere
Black-throated Green Warbler - 3
Palm Warbler - many
Black-and-white Warbler - 5+
American Redstart - 1 (thanks Linda)
(second hand report that the Worm-eating was still around in the same general area)
White-crowned Sparrow - 1 Spectacle
Baltimore Oriole - 2+ (1 singing outside my window right now as well)
Orchard Oriole - 1 Spectacle (thanks Jeff)
Somewhere around 50 species.

Birding Parker River NWR by Bike ~ 05-01-10

This morning, Mark Burns and I led our annual spring birding by bike trip for the Brookline Bird Club at the Parker River National Wildlife Refuge. Eight other bike and birding enthusiasts joined us at Parking Lot #1 at 6:30AM (in photo: Mark, Bev, Paul, Diana, Susan, Stan, Jane, Barbara, Lenny, and yours truly in shadow.)

Weather-wise, this was one of the best days we have had for this trip - the temperature ranged between 51 and 75 df, no wind, and abundant sunshine! We birded our way south to the Hellcat Trail and back over a 5-hour period. We tallied 77 species for the Club list, of which 12 species were warblers! Following is a complete list of the birds we saw:

Common Loon - 2
Double-crested Cormorant – 4
Great-blue Heron – 4
Great Egret -7
Snowy Egret – 3
Glossy Ibis - 7
Canada Goose - 70
Mute Swan - 4

Gadwall – 5

American Black Duck - 12
Mallard – 53
Blue-winged Teal - 3
Green-winged Teal - 2
Ring-necked Duck - 1
Osprey - 5
Northern Harrier - 2
American Kestrel - 1
Merlin - 1
Peregrine Falcon - 1
Sora – 1
Killdeer - 3
Greater Yellowlegs – 9
Willet - 11
Wilson’s Snipe – 1
Ring-billed Gull - 3
Herring Gull - 20
Great Black-backed Gull - 1
Mourning Dove – 26
Belted Kingfisher – 3
Hairy Woodpecker – 1
Northern Flicker – 1
Eastern Phoebe – 2
Eastern Kingbird – 7
Blue-headed Vireo – 12
Warbling Vireo – 1
Red-eyed Vireo - 2
Blue Jay - 5
American Crow – 42
Fish Crow - 1
Purple Martin - 5
Tree Swallow - 350
Barn Swallow – 60
Black-capped Chickadee - 8
Golden-crowned Kinglet – 4
Ruby-crowned Kinglet – 280
Hermit Thrush - 5
American Robin – 75
Gray Catbird - 3
Northern Mockingbird - 2
Brown Thrasher - 14
European Starling – 120

WARBLERS:
Nashville – 10
Northern Parula – 12
Yellow - 40
Black-throated Blue – 3
Yellow-rumped - 150
Black-throated Green – 7
Prairie – 3
Palm – 16
Black-and-white – 53
Ovenbird – 2
Northern Waterthrush – 27
Common Yellowthroat – 2

 

Eastern Towhee - 55

Savannah Sparrow – 13

Seaside Sparrow - 2

Song Sparrow – 33

Swamp Sparrow - 6

White-throated Sparrow – 175

Northern Cardinal – 24

Red-winged Blackbird -190

Eastern Meadowlark - 1

Common Grackle - 90

Brown-headed Cowbird - 20

Purple Finch - 1

American Goldfinch – 24

House Sparrow - 10

 

We had an aMAYzing morning of birding and I hope you did too.

Happy Migration!

Laura H. de la Flor
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"So much to learn about Mother Nature...
...always racing with father time." (lhf)