Birding on the weekend...

...because weekday birding has become all but impossible these days.

Heck, it's taken me until now to actually even post about last weekend!
(note: I actually wanted to post this Wed night, but was waiting for pBase to be back on-line to post some photos. As of 9:45pm EST on Friday, it's still not available!)

On Saturday morning, we went birding with a little bit of a twist. Mark Lynch and Sheila Carroll led a birding trip at the Decordova Sculpture Park in Lincoln, MA - birding AND contemporary art combined. Oh, and we also had a docent from the museum join us as well to talk about the art (in between the birds, of course).
Birds were a bit slow to start, as it was a pretty cool morning, but things started to look up when we heard a nearby Common Loon calling in flight. Over the next few hours we spent an enjoyable time discussing birds and art, culminating with a nice little mixed flock of warblers in the trees in the parking lot.

Sheila put together a great post with photos about the trip on here blog here.

Sunday morning we decided to bird locally, hitting spots like Dunback Meadows, where we had a nice "kettle" of migrating hawks which included Sharp-shinned, Broad-winged, and one Red-tailed Hawk, as well as a following Osprey. We then headed over to Belmont to explore Massachusetts Audubon's "Habitat" Sanctuary, which we amazingly had never visited before. It really is a very pretty sanctuary, and we only saw a small section of it. I look forward to visiting it again sometime soon - seems like a good place for migrants, dragonflies, etc. (See previous two posts for some photos I took there.)