Visiting a New Park
One of the wonderful things about living in Massachusetts is the strong ethic of preserving green spaces and even the creation of new parks. I found out from the Boston Birders yahoo group about a park called "Skyline Park" in Brookline. It's a capped landfill, like Spectacle Island, and the land in Hamilton I visited for work a few years back. It just opened this year, and it has the appearance of a new park: wide open grassy areas, small trees, empty retaining ponds. It will be interesting to visit it in 30 years when it's more mature. Fortunately, it abuts both Lost Pond in Brookline, and Kennard Park in Newton, other protected areas which are thickly wooded. In Skyline we saw interesting birds at a distance.
This red-tail stayed in this spot for over an hour, until it joined its mate who was being mobbed by songbirds.
This was the first killdeer I've seen since Yellowstone.
We emerged from the woods at one point, in a residential neighborhood. This homeowner appears to be deliberately attracting birds with food, and a mirror.
This mourning dove sat with his reflection.