Date: 7/20/26 4:37 pm From: 'Paul Peterson' via Boston Birds <bostonbirds...> Subject: [BostonBirds] 7/19 Belle Isle Marsh Highlights
I was there at high tide, from 3:40-5:00
Little Blue Heron 1 three weeks now or so Great Blue Heron 1 Great Egret 6 Snowy Egret 15 Glossy Ibis 3 Oaprey 2 Least Sandpiper 15 Greater Yellowlegs 1 Lesser Yellowlegs 3 Short-billed Dowitcher 1 Spotted Sandpiper 3 Willet 1 Least Tern 2 Saltmarsh Sparrow 5
Date: 7/16/26 5:46 pm From: 'Paul Peterson' via Boston Birds <bostonbirds...> Subject: [BostonBirds] 7/14 Bridled Tern YES
big thanks to Nick Komar Sr. and Alf Wilson for getting the bird for me. This was at 2:00 p.m. at the public boat launch. Nick didn't actually see the bird, but thanks to him, i did. Just as we were pulling into the Museum Beach/boat launch, the bird flew by Alk Wilson's car windshield! I may have been the last person to see this bird.
Date: 7/9/26 4:11 pm From: 'Paul Peterson' via Boston Birds <bostonbirds...> Subject: [BostonBirds] 7/8 Common Nighthawks in Brookline
excited to have multiple birds, for it has been a while since I saw two or more. The usual area of Harvard Ave, and Auburn St. just up the road from the new Pierce School construction going on. Laura M. presumably got audio.
Date: 6/27/26 12:37 pm From: 'Paul Peterson' via Boston Birds <bostonbirds...> Subject: [BostonBirds] 6/27 Belle Isle Six Long-legged Wader Species, etc.
I arrived at exact high tide, which was at 10:30, and birded until 12:45. Such variety of long-legged waders today.
Little Blue Heron 1 moving between main salt panne and Lawn Ave. observation platform Great Blue Heron 6 Glossy Ibis 3 Snowy Egret 1 Great Egret 11 Black-crowned Night-Heron 2 Osprey 3+ American Kestrel 1 up high; never landed Killdeer 4 Greater Yellowlegs 1 American Oystercatcher 6 out on the marsh Willet 3+ American Woodcock 1+ Least Tern 4 Willow Flycatcher 1+ Eastern Kingbird 1 Warbling Vireo 2 Northern Rough-winged Swallow 1 heard Yellow Warbler 2 Common Yellowthroat 2 Saltmarsh Sparrow 7 from observation tower and at boardwalk combined
Date: 6/24/26 2:58 pm From: 'Paul Peterson' via Boston Birds <bostonbirds...> Subject: [BostonBirds] 6/23 Common Nighthawk and 6/24 Raven Family in Brookline and J.P. Respectively
Today, in a huge fruiting mulberry tree in a yard in Jamaica Plain on Chestnut St.at the corner of Sheridan St., I first heard and then saw and enjoyed a family of five Common Ravens eating mulberries. I left that spot for two hours, but returned two hours later just to see the ravens return also!
Yesterday evening, at 8:50 p.m., I saw and heard a Common Nighthawk over Brookline Village. This is probably the same one that returns to Brookline every year'
