3/9 Cow Island Pond, Etc.

[Paul Peterson]

Sorry for the late post. This place is in West Roxbury. Unless noted, all birds from Cow Island Pond. I birded from 3:55 p.m.-7:00 p.m.

Great Blue Heron 1
Green-winged Teal 3      Brook Farm
Wood Duck 35              including twenty Brook Farm, seven Millennium Park
Common Merganser 8
Hooded Merganser 6
Scaup sp. 1
Bufflehead 2
Red-tailed Hawk 2
Peregrine Falcon 1
Killdeer 2
American Woodcock 17     incl. twelve M.P.; four flushed at C.I.P. in daytime   F.O.Y.
Belted Kingfisher 1            M.P.
Hairy Woodpecker 1
Fish Crow 2
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 1
Golden-crowned Kinglet 3
Eastern Bluebird 1             M.P. woodpecker corner
Swamp Sparrow 3
blackbird 1,000             wild guess; at M.P. dusk

P.S. there was a Turkey Vulture at Forest Hills Station. On March 8, at 6:15 p.m., rhere were two hundred or so crows flying overhead  at Huntington Ave. and Parker Hill Ave.. This was the night before the clocks ere put ahead, thus it was completely night. They seemed to be heading to Leverrett Pond.

Paul Peterson
peterso...@yahoo.com
Boston