Great Meadows 6/5
The Brookline Bird Club/Menotomy Bird Club walk this morning to Great Meadows NWR had a very enjoyable time. Although we missed Least Bittern (I did see it briefly Friday) and rails (mostly), the Common Moorhen cooperated and many breeding birds were in evidence.
Complete list:
Canada Goose (many with young)
Mute Swan
Wood Duck (female with 11 young plus quite a few others around)
Mallard (1 family with mostly grown young)
Hooded Merganser (distant bird on a box, disappeared when we got closer)
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Osprey (1 sitting on a box)
Red-tailed Hawk
Virginia Rail (one lucky latecomer had one run across the path just after the new observation deck)
Common Moorhen (climbing among the reeds and then swimming and calling from the bench to the left)
Rock Pigeon
Mourning Dove
Chimney Swift (10 or so, there were at least 90 Friday)
Belted Kingfisher
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Eastern Wood-Pewee (on nest)
Willow Flycatcher
Great Crested Flycatcher
Eastern Kingbird
Tree Swallow (several at holes)
Barn Swallow
Black-capped Chickadee
Tufted Titmouse
White-breasted Nuthatch
Brown Creeper
Marsh Wren
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Wood Thrush (on nest)
American Robin
Gray Catbird
Yellow Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
Chipping Sparrow (pair copulating at the maintenance shed)
Song Sparrow
Swamp Sparrow
Northern Cardinal
Rose-breasted Grosbeak
Red-winged Blackbird (several young birds flying around plus a nest with more recently hatched young)
Common Grackle
Orchard Oriole (1 young bird across the river)
Baltimore Oriole (several nests)
American Goldfinch
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