In the fall, this place is best birded near and at sunset. That is when the birds are the most vocal and active. Thus was the case this evening when I found more than half of all the sparrows I had, the Swamp Sparrow, the sapsucker, and the Nashville Warbler
Great Blue Heron 1
AMERICAN WIGEON 1 rare here; opposite the soccer goal net
Ring-necked Duck 19
Hooded Merganser 7
Red-tailed Hawk 1
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 1 landed in oak at beginning of ROW O; immature male
NASHVILLE WARBLER 1 at 4:22 feeding in the elm at end of ROW D (next to compost rows
Dark-eyed Junco 15
White-throated Sparrow 55 SEE ABOVE
Song Sparrow 9
Swamp Sparrow 1 near aforementioned compost rows
Paul Peterson
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Boston