BirdingGirl

We were able to get out to Blue Hills this past Sunday since it was such nice weather (sunny and in the 30s- a relief from Friday's frigid temperatures). We went to the area east of Ponkapoag Pond. We had been out there once before to go to the Ponkapoag B og area- one of my boyfriend's favorite areas in the park. We'll have to go back there in the spring to see what kinds of birds there are since it's such a unique part of Blue Hills. A friend had given me a tip to expect some Northern birds to come down from Canada due to the cold temperatures. However, he was expecting them to be down on the Cape and I never made it down there this weekend. Nonetheless, we heard a lot of different calls while we were out in Blue Hills, but weren't able to spot very many. That's the difficult part about being in mature woods- we can hear them but can't spot them since they're up so high. I'll have to start looking into binoculars. I have the Columbia pair from Chri...

Thanks to a friend I was able figure out that last week's mystery bird was a Golden-crowned Kinglet. The Vireo wasn't an exact match of course and I knew the prominenet yellow crown had to show up somewhere in my guide. I'm excited to identify more of the random birds that I see. Unfortunately it rained all weekend so I didn't get a chance to take any pictures. But there's always next weekend.