Boston 11/20

From Bob Stymeist:

On a BBC trip around Boston yesterday (Sun Nov 20) 7 members recorded 56 species which include FIVE WARBLER species:  Ovenbird at Post Office Square, the continuing Orange-crowned and Nashville warblers in the Fenway Victory Gardens (FVG). and a Common Yellowthroat and Yellow rumped also in the Fenway area. The Orange-crowned is TAIL less- maybe from a close encounter with one of the TWO Cooper's Hawks that are frequent there. At Post Office Square there were FOUR Hermit Thrushes together on the main lawn! It was a beautiful day with the temperature rising from a breezy 50 to a high of 72!

Canada Goose  1553  (700- Franklin, 250 UMass)

Brant  11

Black Duck  11

Mallard  197

Greater Scaup 140

Common Eider  30

Surf Scoter  22

White-winged Scoter  16

Black Scoter  1

Bufflehead  110

Common Goldeneye  81

Hooded Merganser  5

Red-breasted Merganser  26

Ruddy Duck  1  (Franklin Pk.)

Wild Turkey  7  (BNC)

Red-throated Loon  1

Horned Grebe  13

Double-crested Cormorant  35

Great Blue Heron  3

Cooper's Hawk  2  (FVG)

Red-tailed Hawk  6

Peregrine Falcon  2  (PO SQ)

American Coot   18

Ring-billed Gull  148

Herring Gull  48

Great Black-backed Gull  15

Rock Pigeon  55

Mourning Dove  18

Downy Woodpecker  8

Northern Flicker  1

Blue Jay  17

American Crow  3

Fish Crow  4  (Mattapan)

Black-capped Chickadee  26

Tufted Titmouse  5

White-breasted Nuthatch  6

Brown Creeper  1  (Olmsted Pk.)

Carolina Wren  1

Hermit Thrush  4  (all PO SQ.)

American Robin  38

Northern Mockingbird  7

European Starling  450

Orange-crowned Warbler  1  (FVG)

NASHVILLE WARBLER   1  (FVG)
Yellow-rumped Warbler  1  (FVG)

OVENBIRD  1  (PO SQ)

Common Yellowthroat  1 (Fens- MFA)

Song Sparrow  18

Swamp Sparrow  1

White-throated Sparrow  26

Dark-eyed Junco  24

Northern Cardinal  7

Red-winged Blackbird  2  (BNC)

House Finch  15

American Goldfinch  6

House Sparrow   40