It's been a long, cold, winter and its been difficult to get motivated for birding lately. I am hoping that the weather will break soon and I can get back to my favorite places; Mt. Auburn and Great Meadows. In the meantime, I've been "cherry-picking" some life birds when the appear on eBird or when I have business trips. I saw two black-headed gulls that have been hanging around Nantucket Harbor when I was in town for work. While I was there a friendly local birder helped me out with locating some lesser-black backed gulls(rare to find in Boston but abundant on Nantucket).
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| Black-headed Gull |
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| Lesser black-backed Gull |
This week I stopped in Mendon, MA to see the Barnacle Goose thats been hanging out at Maple Sanctuary. He was very close so I got some great looks. Thanks to some tips on MassBird I also located a group of Black Vultures in Blackstone, MA. These were not lifers but were a state bird for me.
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| Barnacle Goose |
