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Nature Profiles Wildlife and Environmental Educational Pages Click text and images to view each profile. Butterflies Chipmunks Red Banded Hairstreak Butterfly Mountain Goats Bald Eagles Glossy Ibis Wood Ducks Great Horned Owls Snowy Egrets Pink Lady Slippers Great Blue Herons Wild Flowers Spring Bird Walk Sunday, April 21st, AM, Free Olmsted Park Daisy Field Parking Lot Willow Pond Road between Pond Avenue and the Jamaicaway Info: Bob Mayer, Jamaica Plain, 617.515.7304 rgmayer38@gmail.com This 90-minute walk led by local birding expert, Bob Mayer, will focus on migrating warblers and other spring species in Leverett, Willow and Ward's Ponds and adjacent woods of the Emerald Necklace Olmsted Park. Suitable for beginning as well as more experienced birders. The walk is co-sponsored by Brookline GreenSpace Alliance, Brookline Bird Club and Emerald Necklace Bird Club (Friends of Jamaica Pond) www.BrooklineGreenSpace.org + www.FriendsofJamaicaPond.org (Images © Stephen Baird Nature's Zeitgeist 2024) Barred Owls   Sightings and activity increases in the winter. Owls set up nesting territories with calls in the late fall. After the leaves fall from the trees their roosting sites become visible. I spotted three Barred Owls on the Boston Common and the Public Garden one year plus another one hidden deep in the Faneuil Hall holiday tree! Delighted and astonished to watch a Barred Owl dive into the Boston Public Garden Swan Pond to catch a frog! Best time to locate a Barred Owl is at sunset when they call "Who cooks for you, who cooks for you all." eight note hoots and slur. . Osprey in the Emerald Necklace Parks (click images for larger versions) Osprey are usually seen in the Emerald Necklace and Boston during migration. Osprey have been nesting at Moswetuset Park in Quincy just off of Quincy Shore Drive and Squantum Streets the past few years. They are often seen fishing the Neponset River. I suspect the Osprey I photographed at Scarboro Pond (Franklin Park) and Jamaica Pond the past few summers are from this same nesting site. Always a wonder to watch them hover before the dive for a fish... Stephen Baird Biography Profile Jamaica Plain Gazette 2017 (Click image for larger printable pdf version)

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