Wednesday 12/18: Pileated, GW Teal, usual sparrows at Kaveski.
Thursday 12/19: Got all three longspurs at School St (‘commute’ #258) plus a Snow Bunting. Nothing exciting at Nine Acre or the res. Afternoon trip to BBN and the West Meadow had both Snow Geese, lots of Canadas but nothing else.
Friday 12/20: Tried for the Western Tanager in Cambridge. Light snow as I arrived soon became fairly heavy and wet. Red-tail roosting right above the spot the bird has been hanging around didn’t help either, gave up after an hour. Did luck into a turkey turning around on my way out, which was long overdue for Cambridge (non Mt. Auburn portions). Had time for a quick stop at Hardy (and there hadn’t been a flake at home) with a bunch of mergansers and not much else.
Saturday 12/21: Did a short walking loop. Kinglet on the way over to Falzone. Chat was very cooperative, also 28 Common Mergansers and a swan flying over. Not much at the West Meadow. No birds on the pond at BBN (bluebird along the edge at least). Geese were all on the golf course, but in a tough spot to view and I didn’t find anything but Canada. Vulture over Trapelo and Lexington was the only thing of note on the way home.
Sunday 12/22: Eventually wandered out to Silver Lake, which had just above zero gulls. None came in and none were visible in flight after half an hour, so I moved on to Martin’s Pond. There were a bunch of ducks and geese along the edge, nothing exciting (although all 4 were North Reading additions). Buzzed the res on the way home without anything obvious.
Monday 12/23: Winter Wren, bunch of Bufflehead by Watertown Square.
Tuesday 12/24: Hardy was frozen and nothing was at Graverson. Afternoon check of Waltham St. and some of Dunback was quiet.