8/7 Least Bittern at Millennium Park, Etc.

[Paul Peterson]

A beautiful day for birding.The Least Bittern was calling incessantly for the twenty-five minutes I was in the area. This was around 4:30 p.m.It was a somewhat scratchy rik rik rik rik rik or rik rik rik rik. The locale was about half-way between woodpecker corner and the footbridge. A good field mark is a tall bunch of white flowers about six feet tall, on the brook side. The bird was unseen, and it gave rather quiet calls, although i could hear the calls from the next level up!

LEAST BITTERN 1
Green Heron 5 high school wetland in one sweep of my binoculars; possibly more
Great Blue Heron 1 high school wetland
Black-crowned Night-Heron 1 high school wetland
Great Egret 1 mudflats on the Charles
Killdeer 1
Lesser Yellowlegs 3
Least Sandpiper 1
peep sp. 4
Spotted Sandpiper 1
Belted Kingfisher 1 ruins trail
Eastern Wood-Pewee 1 Brook Farm Reservation
Eastern Kingbird 3 hither and yon
Eastern Phoebe 2
Common Raven 2
LEPIDS:
Monarch 5
Black Swallowtail ? 1
skipper sp. 1
Clouded Sulphur 1
Cabbage White 2
butterfly sp. 1
Green Frog 2
Painted Turtle x
West Roxbury will always hold a special place in my heart. This neighborhood of Boston packs quite a punch birdwise

Paul Peterson
peterso...@yahoo.com
Boston