Thursday- Good Birding Spots

Todays birding trip started at Lake Massapoag in Sharon Ma. I got there around 7:20 when the weather was 66 degrees and cloudy .Right away I noticed a ton of common grackles. They were flying between the trees that lined the beach, hanging out on the sand, and flying over the water. There were also a lot of House Sparrows at this location. At one point, I was watching a couple of sparrows eat a bit of bread they found on the beach when a Common Grackle swooped in, chased them off, and ate the bread itself. I also watched a Sparrow find and investigate a feather on the beach. After about a minute it flew off with the feather to use as nest padding. Further down the beach I saw a group of Mallards swimming around. One detached from the group and walked right up to me, I'm guessing he was expecting me to have some food. There was also a large gaggle of Canada Geese, a few of which had Goslings. While I was watching them, a few of the Goslings wandered in my direction. One of the adult Geese started hissing at me, which I interpreted as "stay away from my babies" so I moved on from them. At around 9:00 people started showing up to the beach so I moved on to Borderland State park, about 10min away. First I spent some time going between a few different meadows on the property. There were a few Tree Swallows perched on an electrical wire and a Brown-headed Cowbird perched on top of a lamp post. I never saw the Cardinal but I could hear it singing from inside the branches, at the top of a big pine tree. I then moved to walk the trails in the more wooded area of the park. In the forested area I heard, the Yellow Warbler, and White-breasted Nuthatch. I heard the Red-bellied Woodpecker once but didn't hear it a second time. I could hear the Eastern Phoebe, American Crow, Black-capped Chickadee, and Tufted Titmouse pretty much anywhere I went in the park.

Publicado el mayo 27, 2021 08:09 TARDE por jgoodma4