June 2020
June 1 – on my early morning walk with Maddie, saw a house sparrow (aka lbj or little brown job in bird-speak) on the sidewalk dipping its beak into melted vanilla ice cream on the sidewalk outside of JP Licks. At the Arboretum around 8:30am saw an immature robin perched on a branch at the top of a bush, looking like it had just recently left the nest. Speckled breast, still fuzzy feathers at the top of its head, short tail feathers, in the process of growing out. Wobbly flight when it took off from the branch, still figuring out how its wings work. June 2 - During a half hour zoom meeting at 9 in the morning, sitting in the sunroom overlooking the back yard, I saw: tree swallows and chimney swifts darting about; a Baltimore oriole land in the top branches of a dead oak on the Arborway; a red-tailed hawk circling high up. Also, a chipmunk came to get a drink out of the water basin in the back yard just before the meeting. June 3 – Went out for a bike ride to the BU bridge aro...