A small Wednesday Warbler group ventured out today at Boston Lot despite threatening skies. Our short list included a few first-of-the-year birds:

Mallard duck
Wood duck
Canada goose
Common grackles
Black and white warblers
Song sparrows
Chestnut-sided warblers
Ovenbirds
B-c chickadees
Mourning doves
American crows
Northern cardinals
Common yellowthroats
White-throated sparrows
Gray catbird
Black-throated blue warbler
Barn swallows
Tree swallows
Blue-headed vireos
Eastern phoebes
pileated woodpecker
Black-throated green warbler
Baltimore oriole
Rose-breasted grosbeak (probable)
Field sparrow (probable)

Pip Richens