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Same time, very different scene at Blair Pond, Cambridge
by Carol Thrope
August 14, 2008

After exhausting day at work, certain I'd need a short nap once home, I was greeted in parking lot (Watertown near the Arsenal Mall) by sound of FISH CROWS!
Found 2 in the parking lot below, one foraging, the other squawking, and they joined two more up on building roof. Proceeded to Blair Pond, 2 days after last visit and had great 30 minutes

No American Black Ducks or Green
Heron

Yellow Warblers, 3 good looks, and one was interacting with a possible Eastern Wood-Pewee

Cedar Waxwings, 2
late summer dark color with white inner edges of tertials visible when perched. the birds chased one another and one kept flying from tree to tree and out over water, short trips but active. One interacted with what looked like female red-wing black bird.

5 vocal American Crow

Blue Jay

Black-capped Chickadee

Solitary Sandpiper- 3,foraging on mudflats

Killdeer- arrived soaring and calling to pond

5 Mallards

House Sparrows, too many