Patch 2010

Rather than a Waltham list this year, I’m going to do a patch list. The patch will be the area from Lexington/Waltham St. to Concord Ave to Mill St to Trapelo Rd, so basically Beaver Brook North, the Beaver Brook Ponds, and Rock Meadow. I’m hoping for 3 visits a week (150 hours minimum) and 125 birds and 200 things in total.

4/14: Decided to expand to the entire Western Greenway as there are too many other sites I want to check occasionally. Shouldn’t affect totals much. If two dates are given, the later one is on the reduced patch. One date with a * is the expanded patch only.

Bold is limited patch tick, italics is greenway tick.

So far (10/31):

Birds (118):

  1. Canada Goose (1/29, 2/22)
  2. Wood Duck (3/19)
  3. Mallard (1/12)
  4. American Black Duck (1/26)
  5. Hooded Merganser (1/22)
  6. Wild Turkey (4/16)
  7. Common Loon (5/13)
  8. Double-crested Cormorant (*7/18)
  9. Great Blue Heron (7/9)
  10. Green Heron (7/27, 8/5)
  11. Turkey Vulture (5/15)
  12. Sharp-shinned Hawk (1/6, 3/20)
  13. Cooper’s Hawk (1/16)
  14. Red-tailed Hawk (1/15)
  15. Merlin (10/11)
  16. Peregine Falcon (10/31)
  17. Killdeer (3/20)
  18. Spotted Sandpiper (5/15)
  19. Solitary Sandpiper (5/6)
  20. Lesser Yellowlegs (*7/27)
  21. Least Sandpiper (8/19)
  22. Semipalmated Sandpiper (8/19)
  23. American Woodcock (3/19)
  24. Ring-billed Gull (1/7, 12/19(!))
  25. Herring Gull (1/16)
  26. Great Black-backed Gull (1/16)
  27. Rock Pigeon (4/25)
  28. Mourning Dove (1/11)
  29. Yellow-billed Cuckoo (5/6)
  30. Eastern Screech-Owl (7/9, 100 for the year)
  31. Chimney Swift (5/4, 5/6)
  32. Ruby-throated Hummingbird (7/1, 8/8)
  33. Belted Kingfisher (6/15)
  34. Red-bellied Woodpecker (1/6, 1/11)
  35. Downy Woodpecker (1/6, 1/11)
  36. Hairy Woodpecker (1/12)
  37. Northern Flicker (1/11)
  38. Olive-sided Flycatcher (5/20)
  39. Eastern Wood-Pewee (5/13)
  40. Willow Flycatcher (5/28)
  41. Least Flycatcher (5/13)
  42. Eastern Phoebe (3/20)
  43. Great Crested Flycatcher (5/6, 5/15)
  44. Eastern Kingbird (5/13)
  45. Blue-headed Vireo (5/6)
  46. Warbling Vireo (5/13)
  47. Red-eyed Vireo (5/15)
  48. Blue Jay (1/4, 1/11)
  49. American Crow (1/6, 1/16)
  50. Tree Swallow (3/20)
  51. Barn Swallow (7/18, 8/8)
  52. Black-capped Chickadee (1/6, 1/11)
  53. Tufted Titmouse (1/6, 1/11)
  54. White-breasted Nuthatch (1/6, 1/11)
  55. Red-breasted Nuthatch (*7/12)
  56. Brown Creeper (*1/6)
  57. Carolina Wren (1/17)
  58. House Wren (5/13)
  59. Golden-crowned Kinglet (1/14, 1/17)
  60. Ruby-crowned Kinglet (2/19)
  61. Eastern Bluebird (1/17)
  62. Swainson’s Thrush (*5/21)
  63. Hermit Thrush (4/30, 10/31)
  64. Veery (9/6)
  65. Wood Thrush (5/6)
  66. American Robin (1/7, 1/11)
  67. Gray Catbird (5/4, 5/6)
  68. Northern Mockingbird (1/11)
  69. Brown Thrasher (5/3, 5/15)
  70. European Starling (1/16)
  71. Cedar Waxwing (4/4)
  72. American Pipit (10/31)
  73. Blue-winged Warbler (5/6)
  74. Nashville Warbler (10/11)
  75. Northern Parula (5/13)
  76. Yellow Warbler (5/4, 5/6)
  77. Chestnut-sided Warbler (9/6)
  78. Magnolia Warbler (5/13)
  79. Black-throated Blue Warbler (10/31)
  80. Yellow-rumped Warbler (4/20, 4/21)
  81. Black-throated Green Warbler (5/13)
  82. Blackburnian Warbler (5/15)
  83. Pine Warbler (4/1, 4/16)
  84. Palm Warbler (4/10)
  85. Blackpoll Warbler (5/13)
  86. Bay-breasted Warbler (*9/10)
  87. Black-and-white Warbler (5/13)
  88. American Redstart (5/14, 5/15)
  89. Ovenbird (5/15)
  90. Common Yellowthroat (5/13)
  91. Hooded Warbler (5/15)
  92. Wilson’s Warbler (9/6)
  93. Canada Warbler (5/15)
  94. Eastern Towhee (4/25)
  95. American Tree Sparrow (1/11)
  96. Chipping Sparrow (4/13, 4/25)
  97. Field Sparrow (4/4)
  98. Savannah Sparrow (4/25)
  99. Song Sparrow (1/11)
  100. Swamp Sparrow (4/4)
  101. Lincoln’s Sparrow (9/24)
  102. White-throated Sparrow (1/6, 1/16)
  103. White-crowned Sparrow (5/15, 9/24)
  104. Dark-eyed Junco (1/6, 1/11)
  105. Scarlet Tanager (5/6)
  106. Northern Cardinal (1/6, 1/11)
  107. Rose-breasted Grosbeak (5/6)
  108. Indigo Bunting (5/6)
  109. Bobolink (5/15)
  110. Red-winged Blackbird (1/16)
  111. Common Grackle (2/22)
  112. Brown-headed Cowbird (3/20)
  113. Orchard Oriole (5/15)
  114. Baltimore Oriole (5/5, 5/6)
  115. House Finch (1/16)
  116. Purple Finch (10/9)
  117. American Goldfinch (1/16)
  118. House Sparrow (1/7, 1/11)

Mammals (5+):

  1. Gray Squirrel
  2. Red Squirrel
  3. Eastern Chipmunk
  4. Eastern Cottontail
  5. Whitetail Deer
  6. Mole sp
  7. Bat sp

Butterflies (36):

  1. Silver-spotted Skipper (6/4)
  2. Juvenal’s Duskywing (4/23, 5/6)
  3. Wild Indigo Duskywing (*5/26)
  4. Least Skipper (6/4)
  5. European Skipper (6/3, 6/4)
  6. Indian Skipper (*5/26)
  7. Peck’s Skipper (5/26, 5/27)
  8. Northern Broken-Dash (7/11)
  9. Hobomok Skipper (5/6)
  10. Dun Skipper (7/15)
  11. Eastern Tiger Swallowtail (5/6)
  12. Black Swallowtail (5/17)
  13. Spicebush Swallowtail (5/18, 7/9)
  14. Clouded Sulphur (5/6)
  15. Orange Sulphur (7/1, 9/6)
  16. Cabbage White (4/5)
  17. American Copper (5/26, 10/9)
  18. Banded Hairstreak (*6/14)
  19. Striped Hairstreak (*7/18)
  20. Eastern Tailed-Blue (5/15)
  21. Spring Azure (*4/23)
  22. Cherry Gall Azure (5/6)
  23. Monarch (7/15)
  24. Red-spotted Purple (*5/26)
  25. Viceroy (6/4)
  26. Great Spangled Fritillary (7/1, 7/18)
  27. American Lady (5/15)
  28. Painted Lady (6/4)
  29. Red Admiral (5/13)
  30. Mourning Cloak (4/2)
  31. Eastern Comma (4/10)
  32. Question Mark (7/15)
  33. Pearl Crescent (5/15)
  34. Common Ringlet (5/20)
  35. Little Wood Satyr (5/15)
  36. Common Wood-Nymph (7/12, 7/15)

Odes (24+):

  1. Ebony Jewelwing (5/21, 5/27)
  2. Skimming Bluet (6/15)
  3. Eastern Forktail (4/24)
  4. Fragile Forktail (5/13)
  5. Shadow Darner (7/15)
  6. Lance-tipped Darner (7/26)
  7. Common Green Darner (5/24)
  8. (Unicorn) Clubtail (6/15)
  9. Common Baskettail (5/7, 5/15)
  10. Halloween Pennant (7/15)
  11. Eastern Pondhawk (6/14, 7/16)
  12. Slaty Skimmer (6/14, 7/16)
  13. Widow Skimmer (6/21, 7/15)
  14. Twelve-spotted Skimmer (6/4)
  15. Painted Skimmer (6/11)
  16. Common Whitetail (5/6)
  17. Blue Dasher (6/14, 6/15)
  18. Spot-winged Glider (7/1, 7/18)
  19. Wandering Glider (7/18)
  20. Eastern Amberwing (*7/18)
  21. Cherry-faced Meadowhawk (6/4)
  22. Autumn Meadowhawk (7/22, 7/23)
  23. Band-winged Meadowhawk (7/15)
  24. Black Saddlebags (6/15)

Somatochlora sp (7/18)

Misc:

  1. Wood Frog
  2. Spring Peeper
  3. Green Frog
  4. Painted Turtle