WIR 9/21-9/27

Wednesday 9/21: BBN had one good flock of warblers including 3+ Blackpolls, a BT Green, a Parula, and a Nashville.

Thursday 9/22: Cambridge Res at lunch: 5 yellowlegs, both Greater and Lesser. Not a whole lot else, Spotted Sandpipers, Solitary Sandpiper, Killdeer, herons. Blackpoll from the yard.

Friday 9/23: Purgatory Cove: 6 GW Teal, 1 BW Teal, 1 Wigeon, 1 PB Grebe.

Saturday 9/24: Purgatory Cove w/parents (and Bob): 7 GW Teal, 2 BW Teal, 2 Pectoral Sandpiper, 1 Lesser Yellowlegs. Cambridge Res in the afternoon: 2 Parula, 1 Black-and-white, 1 Blackpoll, 1 Yellow-rump, 5 Solitary Sandpiper.

Lesser Yellowlegs

Pec

Sunday 9/25: Led MBC walk in Lincoln. Found mosquitos and eventually a Baltimore Oriole. Nothing at Cambridge Res on way back.

Monday 9/26: Chased Chris Floyd’s Clay-colored Sparrow at Rock Meadow. Took my whole lunch break but did find it eventually. Greenway bird #160.

Clay-colored

Missed a Dickcissel though even spending some time looking.

Tuesday 9/27: UMass Field Station looking for a Dickcissel of my own (2 now at Rock Meadow) but not much of anything.