5/9 Three Indigo Buntings, all different, at Cold Spring Park

[Paul Peterson]

This lovely park is in the city of Newton. I birded there from 12:30-4:50. That is when the downpours occured. Water seeped through all three layers of my clothes, to my skin.

Red-shouldered Hawk 1
Hairy Woodpecker 1
House Wren 1
Gray Catbird 8
Yellow-rumped Warbler 6
Black and White Warbler 1+
Northern Parula 2
Black-throated Green Warbler 1
Pine Warbler 2 nest here annually
Common Yellowthroat 1 nest here annually
Magnolia Warbler 1
Nashville Warbler 1
INDIGO BUNTING 3 together in swamp an ad. and imm. male, and a female. Singing sweetly
Rose-breasted Grosbeak 3
Baltimore Oriole 1+
Orchard Oriole 1 imm. male singing ever so sweetly
LARGE-FLOWERED TRILLIUM; absolutely gorgeous; naturallly occurring here?

Paul Peterson
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Boston