Bob Stymeist has been seeing some pretty neat birds in the Alewife area over the past couple of weeks, so Renee LaFontaine, Alan Ankers and I decided to give it a try today. We ran into Dave Lange there, a birder from Concord who would scouting for his area of the Boston Christmas Bird Count, and he joined us. Well, we missed a lot of stuff that Bob saw, but we did see

Orange-crowned Warbler - OK, so Bob saw one or more in previous trips, but not the last trip..... American Woodcock - flushed out of the understory.

Otherwise relatively ordinary stuff.... Went over to Danehy Park afterwards, but it was pretty dead except for a kestrel hunting for what looked like crickets.

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Arlington, MA
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