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Bird Observing in the Alewife Reservation
- from First Parish Environmental Group Project March 17 From Carol Walker and family Rosie and I were fine with how you were! Maya and Rosie and I went this morning so Maya could see the bird houses. We saw to our delight about 15 robins, 2 downy woodpeckers, a starling, 4 Canada Geese, chickadees, a mockingbird and a couple of small sparrowlike birds that we couldn't figure out. March 27/28 From carol Walker and family Rosie and I went out Saturday and Sunday. Here's what we saw: Saturday our biggest delight was this big Red Tailed Hawk that swooped down onto the lamppost as we were climbing over the guard rail...Sat right there so we could look at its majesty and walk around the other side to find the reddish tail feathers! We also saw a couple of robins and a few grackles. We saw about 7 small sparrows of some kind...not House Sparrows...we know those very well. They hopped in and out of some brush...we wonder if maybe they are Song Sparrows? Sunday (it was cold!) we went around 11 a.m. Not much around until we heard some tittering and looked up into some trees that were flowering with those catkin kind of flowers that look like caterpillars?..There were probably 15 small Goldfinch size birds. It was a gray day and hard to get the light right to see their colors. Rosie did confirm for me that one of them looked yellowish so it wasn't just my eyes. We think maybe they were, in fact, Goldfinches in their paler feathers. |