Date: 4/26/25 11:01 am From: 'Paul Peterson' via Boston Birds <bostonbirds...> Subject: [BostonBirds] 4/26 Summer Tanager at Iroquois St. Woods, Etc.
Sorry for the late post, as stuff happens! I birded here and at the neighboring McLaughlin Woods from 9:05-12:05. The rarity was one of the first birds I found, at 9:15. Unfortunately, it hung around for ten minutes and peeled off towards perhaps Leverett Pond with several Yellow-rumped Warblers. It started as on and off light showers for twenty minutes:
Mallard Duck 2 rare here (flyover)
Chimney Swift 1
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 1+
Fish Crow 12 group flyover
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 2+
Hermit Thrush 5
Gray Catbird 2+
Brown Thrasher 2 maximum
Eastern Towhee 2+
Nashville Warbler 1
Black and White Warbler 3 maximum (probably just one, as it was quite active)
Northern Parula 1
Yellow-rumped Warbler 15
SUMMER TANAGER 1 1st spring male; same spot as the one I found five years ago (May 18, 2020)
Field Sparrow 1
White-throated Sparrow 25
Purple Finch 3 eating buds in treetop at highest level with some goldfinch and White-throateds
