Date: 4/26/25 11:33 am From: Barbara Volkle <barb620...> Subject: [MASSBIRD] 4/26 Summer Tanager at Iroquois St. Woods, Etc.
Thanks to Paul Peterson for this report.
Barbara Volkle Northborough, MA <barb620...>
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Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2025 18:01:11 +0000 (UTC) From: Paul Peterson <petersonpaul63...> Subject: 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 12Â 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
