March 2022
March 1 I heard, and then spotted, a single male cardinal singing at the tippy top of a tree at 6:30am. With the sun just coming up, low in the sky, it glowed, looking like it was illuminated from within. Throughout the first half of March, around 20 common and a dozen or so hooded mergansers continued at Jamaica Pond. Some days I also saw a single bufflehead , tipping into the water, diving and bobbing up again, over and over. A few ring-necked ducks hanging out at Ward's Pond. And the screech owl has been at the tree cavity at the end of the street on and off. Mostly I see it dozing in the afternoon sun as the days get warmer. March 3 The ice on the pond is melting; I was surprised to see this nearly perfectly circular patch of open ice. In the afternoon, at the Arb, I heard a great horned owl near the Hunnewell building but couldn't find it. Most years there is a pair that nests at the Arb. In the evening, I went to a recepti...