Monday 22 October 2012

Olmsted Park--Leverett Pond, Suffolk, MA, USA, 21-Oct-2012

11:20 AM - 11:48 AM
Protocol: Traveling
0.5 mile(s)
Comments: Autumn visit to the local patch.
Weather: bright, sunny, mild. Cooled & got cloudier.
11 species

Canada Goose X

Wood Duck 5 in total; 3 females, 2 males. I had walked round the pond from the Jamaicaway side, & as I looked across at the heron, I saw some ducks lurking in the shade under the trees on one of the pond's small islands. Easy to identify, they acted quite nervously & slowly drifted away, still in the shade. Life-tick.

American Black Duck 8 in the open water.
Mallard X
Great Blue Heron X
Ring-billed Gull X
Blue Jay X
American Robin X
European Starling X
Common Grackle 100 + in a large flock working through the area around the softball pitches, on the path, under the trees & on the edge of the pitch. Making a lot of noise they were all around me, greedily filling up to continue migration.
House Sparrow X

View this checklist online at http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S13389698

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