Calling all Birders!

Posted on Mar 23, 2013

Calling all Birders!

Robert Mayer, Arboretum docent, led a fascinating  bird walk at Bussey Brook Meadow on Sunday, May 19, 2013 . On a perfect  Spring morning, members of the Arboretum Park Conservancy and the Brookline Bird Club saw what seemed to be an argument over a hole in a catalpa tree between a red http://dailycialisuse.com/ bellied woodpecker and an irate squirrel!

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25 species were noted:

> Mourning Dove  3
> Red-bellied Woodpecker  2
> Warbling Vireo  2
> Blue Jay  3
> American Crow  2
> Tree Swallow  2 both nest boxes
> Black-capped Chickadee  3
> Tufted Titmouse  1
> House Wren  1
> Wood Thrush  1 heard
> American Robin  8
> Gray Catbird  10
> European Starling  3
> Common Yellowthroat  1
> Magnolia Warbler  1
> Yellow Warbler  1
> Black-throated Blue Warbler  2
> warbler sps.  lots of song; trees fully leafed out Chipping Sparrow  2
> Song Sparrow  2 Northern Cardinal  2 Rose-breasted Grosbeak  1female;
> possibly a male calling Red-winged Blackbird  3 Common Grackle  8
> Baltimore Oriole  6 two nests visible House Sparrow  2