Wednesday 10/5: Purgatory Cove: bunch of Green-winged Teal, first of fall juncos.
Thursday 10/6: Prospect Hill before work: lots of White-throats, Black-and-white, many flyover Yellow-rumps and Blackpolls. Beaver Brook at lunch: Blue-headed Vireo, more Yellow-rumps and a Palm were about it.
Friday 10/7: Prospect Hill again, zip.
Saturday 10/8: More or less stayed in for Yom Kippur. Did walk down to the store for get food for Sunday and found a Red-tail maybe 10 feet off the ground (unfortunately had the phone off and it flew by the time it turned on).
The long weekend provided lots of birds. Sunday was the Big Sit, so I spent the day at the tower by parking lot 7 on Plum Island with Joshua Rose and Nick Paulson. Felt slower than last year but we ended up with 72 species (plus several things like peep sp) so it couldn’t have been that bad. Highlights included a good afternoon jaeger show, 2 bitterns, and a Merlin hunting at dusk. And this guy:
Wednesday 9/28: Prospect Hill was very quiet.
Thursday 9/29: Saw something. Nothing at the Cambridge Res later.
Friday 9/30: Duck ponds were pretty quiet. Finally able to crawl through the fallen trees though and do a full loop.
Saturday 10/1: Joined the Menotomy trip to Dunback: Chat, few other warblers, exotic finch, heard-only Dickcissel. Arlington Res after: 3 Blue-winged Teal, White-crowned Sparrow.
Sunday 10/2: Planned on being lazy but the sun came out so ran to Rock Meadow. Clouded up, but spent over two hours in the gardens, mostly with Karsten and Jeff. Karsten eventually picked up one of the Dickcissels which cooperated for a few photos (somewhat). Also a couple Nashvilles, an Osprey, and a flyover loon (Karsten called it Red-throated, I didn’t actually look carefully and am kicking myself quite a bit). Circled Cambridge Res after and found 9 swans and 5 wigeon.
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7/2 and 7/3: Travel and Denver area (birds, odes, asilids, butterflies, baseball)
7/4: Denver area (birds, odes, butterflies, mammals)
7/5: Rocky Mountain National Park (mostly birds, almost no photos)
7/6: Pawnee National Grasslands (birds, butterflies, mammals)
7/7: Fort Collins area (birds, butterflies, asilids, odes)
7/8: DSA meeting (bird, ode, salamander)
7/9: Pawnee and DSA meeting (bird, mammal)
Nice series of events last night and this morning:
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Laptop keyboard and trackpad stops working.
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Make Apple store appointment for the morning.
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Decide that even though it’s raining, might as well stop at Arlington Res on the way and hopefully find the Blue Grosbeak.
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Arrive at Arlington Res, take quick look at berm.
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That bird looks rather white.
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Run back to car for scope.
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Confirm Sanderling, county bird #275 (and 25th shorebird).
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.
Wednesday 9/14: Purgatory Cove had both Green-winged and Blue-winged Teal but no sandpipers.
Thursday 9/15: BBN before work: lots of Blackpolls, lots of things in awful light. Broad-winged at Prospect Hill at lunch and not much else there.
Friday 9/16: Duck ponds: Ovenbird, Parula, Black-and-white, Yellowthroat, couple more got away. Also big flock of geese overhead. Driving down Lexington St later, single nighthawk over the Wal-Lex.
Saturday 9/17: Started at Dunback. Not quite as busy as I hoped but pretty good with 8 species of warbler including Blackburnian and first of fall BT Blue, several Broad-wings and Sharpies, and Philadelphia and Blue-headed Vireo. Stopped at Cambridge Res on the way home, 2 Greater Yellowlegs, Great Egret, Osprey, Semipalmated Plover, 2 Green Heron. Afternoon walk around Arlington Res failed to turn up the Dickcissel but did get 4 shovelers.
Wednesday 9/7: Purgatory Cove again in the heavy rain: kingfisher, egret, 1 green heron.
Thursday 9/8: Duck ponds had nothing.
Friday 9/9: Prospect Hill: Veery, Prairie Warbler, 2 American Redstart, Black-and-white Warbler, Scarlet Tanager. Five nighthawks around the corner around 5PM.
Saturday 9/10: Farm Meadow in Lincoln: Parula, BT Green, Blackpoll, Redstart, 2 Red-eyed Vireo (local family?), 2 Kingbird, Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, 2 Indigo Bunting. Wayland Community Gardens were pretty quiet, nighthawk and Rose-breasted Grosbeak were about it.
Wednesday 8/31: Prospect Hill was very quiet.
Thursday 9/1: BBN before work. Pretty quiet, 1 Magnolia and 1 Blue-winged or Lawrence’s (lousy view but it didn’t feel like a Blue-winged) were about it. Back end of Prospect Hill at lunch was even quieter.
Friday 9/2: Purgatory Cove: 2 Semipalmated and 5 Least Sandpipers, 4 Green Heron, 1 Great Egret, 2 Great Blue, 1 Black-crowned Night-Heron.
Saturday 9/3: BBN to start, leucistic Chipping Sparrow was about it. Ponds were filled again, 16 mallards were all that was on them. Great Meadows was very quiet although a calling Northern Waterthrush was #174 for the site.
Wednesday 8/24: Pretty much nothing. Missed one nighthawk over the yard.
Thursday 8/25: BBN was very quiet.
Friday 8/26: Canada, Magnolia, 4+ Redstarts at Prospect Hill. About 6 nighthawks over the yard plus many Chimney Swifts way up high.
Saturday 8/27: Went out with the Athol Bird and Nature Club. Once the sun came out, we got a few dragonflies including a good number of American Rubyspots and two Arrow Clubtails. Rubyspot appears to be ode #100 for me in MA.
