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Palm warbler. First warbler of the year.
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Alex Beck. Lots of turkeys at Hall’s Pond 1/29/19. Photo by my husband Jerry Feuer
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Raccoon near the Beacon St overlook.
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Solstice Silence at the Pond.
Hall’s Pond & Amory Woods, Norfolk, Massachusetts, US
Dec 19, 2018 3:10 PM – 3:40 PM
Walking 0.7 kilometer.
Comments: p/c, 40F, light s/w breeze, dusky. A rare happenstance when people (15, including 5 teens seated, chatting by the formal garden bench) outnumber birds (12). 18 squirrels, 3 cottontails.
Mourning Dove (Zenaida macroura) 2
Barred Owl (Strix varia) 0
Blue Jay (Cyanocitta cristata) 1
American Robin (Turdus migratorius) 7
Song Sparrow (Melospiza melodia) 2
House Sparrow (Passer domesticus) 0
View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S50845560
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Dec. 19 Healthy looking stout great blue heron sunning on the side of the pond today.
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Hall’s Pond & Amory Woods, Norfolk, Massachusetts, US
Nov 27, 2018 10:50 AM – 11:30 AM
Protocol: Traveling 0.8 kilometer
Comments: Gray, spitting, 45F, westerly breeze freshening, clearing. Paths flooded with wet leaves. Chinese man catching carp (2). 15 species. Birders, watch for winter finches! (see grid in newsletter).
Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos) 2 pair dozing by turtle logs
Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon) (Columba livia (Feral Pigeon)) 2 1180 beacon street
Mourning Dove (Zenaida macroura) 1
Herring Gull (Larus argentatus) 3
Red-tailed Hawk (Buteo jamaicensis) 1 cruising over beacon street, 11:30
Barred Owl (Strix varia) 1 wide-eyed from midway up largest upland pine
Red-bellied Woodpecker (Melanerpes carolinus) 1 at eye-level on its parking lot nest maple
Blue Jay (Cyanocitta cristata) 8 active and noisy, two giving yoo-HOO alternate call
Black-capped Chickadee (Poecile atricapillus) 2
White-breasted Nuthatch (Sitta carolinensis) 4 active and noisy, maybe 5
American Robin (Turdus migratorius) 22 a few foraging on amory swale, most in flyover flock
European Starling (Sturnus vulgaris) 15 roosting in tallest dead deciduous tree
Dark-eyed Junco (Junco hyemalis) 3
Song Sparrow (Melospiza melodia) 1 in its winter reed patch
House Sparrow (Passer domesticus) 8 amory street, puddle bathing
View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S50264430
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Duck and turtles in a row, sunning themselves
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Great Blue Heron
October 14, 2018
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I’m reposting PP’s E-bird list from MassBird, just for the record. Fred B
Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2018 00:36:04 +0000 (UTC)
From: Paul Peterson
Hi,
I hit the Muddy River Brookline, Hall’s Pond, and then Lost Pond. All birds were at Lost Pond unless noted.
Great Blue Heron 2 river
Wood Duck 1 river
Wild Turkey 3 Hall’s Pond
Solitary Sandpiper 2 one Muddy River
CHIMNEY SWIFT 24 numbers kept increasing as evening progressed; presumed flycatching
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 1 Hall’s Pond
Red-breasted Nuthatch 1
Palm Warbler 2
Yellow-rumped Warbler 2
Common Yellowthroat 1
Blackpoll Warbler 6 three Hall’s Pond
Lincoln’s Sparrow 1
Swamp Sparrow 3
White-throated Sparrow 2
Chipping Sparrow 1 Hall’s Pond
Dark-eyed Junco 1 Hall’s Pond
Indigo Bunting 2
Paul Peterson
petersonpaul63@yahoo.com
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Great blue and cormorant sharing a branch at dusk
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Male and Female Eastern Forktail Damselfly
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Common Green Darner Dragonfly – it’s the large one they hardly ever stops flying over the pond
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Male Eastern Forktail Damselfly
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The barred owl was perched down low today, making for some spectacular views.
Full checklist: https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S47883518
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Thread-waisted Wasp seen near the shore in the corner of the pond closest to the Beacon St. entrance
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Cherry-faced Meadowhawk was only seen on shoreline near nesting box at the Beacon St gate.
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Cherry-faced Meadowhawk
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Male Blue Dasher Dragonfly on twig
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Barred Owl at rest
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Barred Owl