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Weekend tally from Victory Gardens to Jamaica Pond ...

Double Crested Cormorants - JPond and Wards Pond
Great Blue Herons
Mute Swans
Canada Geese
Mallards
American Black Ducks
Hooded Merganser - JPond
Coopers Hawk - much equivocation here - flying over the Victory
Gardens mid-afternoon Sunday - quick wing flaps into a glide, but
larger, and a lot of white on the tail end.... initially thinking
Sharp-shinned, but my gut keeps telling me it was a Cooper's - anyone
around the area that time of day care to chime in ??? I'm 60-40 on
this call so open to observations.
Red-tailed Hawks
American Coots - JPond
Ring-billed Gulls
Great Black-backed Gulls - a lot soaring over which I haven't noticed
before
Rock Pigeons
Mourning Doves
Downy Woodpeckers
Blue Jays
American Crows
Black-capped Chickadees
White-breasted Nuthatches
Carolina Wren
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Hermit Thrush
American Robins
Northern Mockingbirds
European Starlings
Cedar Waxwings - 6 at the bridge near Simmons College feeding on
berries with Robins
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Song Sparrows
White-throated Sparrows
Dark-eyed Juncos
Northern Cardinal
Red-winged Blackbird
Common Grackles
House Finches
American Goldfinches
House Sparrows

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