Date: 8/7/25 8:12 pm From: Barbara Volkle <barb620...> Subject: [MASSBIRD] 8/7 Least Bittern at Millennium Park, Etc.
Thanks to Paul Peterson for this report.
Barbara Volkle Northborough, MA <barb620...>
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Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2025 00:41:35 +0000 (UTC) From: Paul Peterson <petersonpaul63...> Subject: 8/7 Least Bittern at Millennium Park, Etc.
A beautiful day for birding.The Least Bittern was calling incessantly for the twenty-five minutes I was in the area. This was around 4:30 p.m.It was a somewhat scratchy rik rik rik rik rik or rik rik rik rik. The locale was about half-way between woodpecker corner and the footbridge. A good field mark is a tall bunch of white flowers about six feet tall, on the brook side. The bird was unseen, and it gave rather quiet calls, although i could hear the calls from the next level up!
LEAST BITTERN 1 Green Heron 5 high school wetland in one sweep of my binoculars; possibly more Great Blue Heron 1 high school wetland Black-crowned Night-Heron 1 high school wetland Great Egret 1 mudflats on the Charles Killdeer 1 Lesser Yellowlegs 3 Least Sandpiper 1 peep sp. 4 Spotted Sandpiper 1 Belted Kingfisher 1 ruins trail Eastern Wood-Pewee 1 Brook Farm Reservation Eastern Kingbird 3 hither and yon Eastern Phoebe 2 Common Raven 2 LEPIDS: Monarch 5 Black Swallowtail ? 1 skipper sp. 1 Clouded Sulphur 1 Cabbage White 2 butterfly sp. 1 Green Frog 2 Painted Turtle x West Roxbury will always hold a special place in my heart. This neighborhood of Boston packs quite a punch birdwise
