Date: 7/5/25 5:27 pm From: Barbara Volkle <barb620...> Subject: [MASSBIRD] Cuckoo Clocking at Burrage Pond W.M.A., Etc.
Thanks to Paul Peterson for this report.
Barbara Volkle Northborough, MA <barb620...>
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Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2025 20:23:34 +0000 (UTC) From: Paul Peterson <petersonpaul63...> Subject: Cuckoo Clocking at Burrage Pond W.M.A., Etc.
7/4 I went to Burrage Pond in Hanson and Halifax in hopes of getting Sandhill Cranes. Success! But what was really interesting was, what I assume to have been, at least two cranes calling together making a sound that I can only describe as a very loud cuckoo clock! It was hard to pinpoint where the calls were coming fro, I also saw with just my bins two adults in the usual northwest area.( from the dike) Their color (rust) really stands out, so that it would be difficult to mistake them for Great Blue Herons. (that is provided that you actually get a look at them, They do disappear into the taller phragmites.
Great Blue Heron 6 Great Egret 4 Wood Duck 2 Osprey 3 nest is on the cell tower SANDHILL CRANE 4 Minimum Cooper's Hawk 1 Killdeer 1 Least Sandpiper 2 Yellow-billed Cuckoo 2 one doing knocking series, other kdowl series Eastern Wood-Pewee 3 Eastern Phoebe 1 Eastern Kingbird 10 Red-eyed Vireo 2 Common Raven 1+ heard Marsh Wren 1 Common Yellowthroat 10 Yellow Warbler 10 Pine Warbler 4 Eastern Towhee 12 Field Sparrow 2 juv. Swamp Sparrow 7 Orchard Oriole 3 ad. fem. and two 1st summer males
Lepids:
Monarch 2 Viceroy 1 Little Wood-Satyr 2 Common Wood-Nymph 2
