Swamp Sparrow
“A female Common Eider teaching a gaggle of chicks to dive for crustaceans, several Swamp Sparrow fledglings - Song Sparrow and Chickadee fledglings are out and about as well.”
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A female Common Eider teaching a gaggle of chicks to dive for crustaceans, several Swamp Sparrow fledglings - Song Sparrow and Chickadee fledglings are out and about as well.
Additionally, I recorded seeing 12 Swamp sparrows and not one but two Yellow bellied sapsuckers.
Other mentionables include: A female Common Eider teaching a gaggle of chicks to dive for crustaceans, several Swamp Sparrow fledglings - a Red bellied Woodpecker with three young continuing to devour our suet and Song Sparrow, Titmice and Chickadee fledglings are out and about as well.
Other noteworthy mentioning’s include the First of Year (FOY) Hermit Thrush, Swamp Sparrow and Pine Warbler on April 11 in Robinson Woods III.
That morning I helped free a tan-striped variety sparrow and a Swamp Sparrow that had become stuck in netting that I had put out to protect the garden from other predators.
Migratory woodpeckers such as the Northern Flicker and Yellow-bellied Sapsucker numbers peak in April as do Brown Creepers, Eastern Phoebes, Winter Wrens, Brown Thrashers, White-throated Sparrows, Swamp Sparrows, and fleeting pass through migrants like Fox Sparrows and “Ipswich” Savanah Sparrows.
Additionally, on September 10 I recorded seeing a single Yellow-bellied Flycatcher, Swamp Sparrow and American Redstart along the Great Pond Boardwalk and on the same day three Black-and-White Warblers, a single American Woodcock and singing Common Yellowthroat along Gull Crest.
The following day, January 23, in Robinson Woods I counted six Golden-crowned Kinglets and was surprised to find two Swamp Sparrows along the Pond Cove brook corridor.