I took a friend out birding today along the rail trail and through the Nevins Sanctuary. Among the birds we saw today were 3 Green Herons, 9 Great Blue herons, 1 Red Tail Hawk and believe it or not 1 Immature Bald Eagle. Unfortunately I didn’t have a long enough lens to get the eagle, but two of the Green Herons were cooperative.
Birders:Joyce Godsey & Christine Lewis
Location: Nevins Bird Sanctuary
Observation date: 7/27/10
Nevins Bird Sanctuary, Methuen
Wood Duck 6
American Black Duck 2
Mallard 4
Great Blue Heron 2
Green Heron 3
Killdeer 2
Rock Pigeon 1
Mourning Dove 2
Chimney Swift 9
Downy Woodpecker 2
Eastern Phoebe 1
Eastern Kingbird 3
American Crow 1
Northern Rough-winged Swallow 2
Black-capped Chickadee 1
Tufted Titmouse 1
Gray Catbird 1
European Starling 2
Cedar Waxwing 2
Yellow Warbler 2
Song Sparrow 2
Scarlet Tanager 1
Red-winged Blackbird 5
Common Grackle 2
American Goldfinch 1
Spicket River Rookery, Methuen (the rookery is along the rail trail just past the MSPCA)
Mallard 8
Great Blue Heron 9
Bald Eagle 1 imm
Red-tailed Hawk 1
Mourning Dove 2
Methuen Oakland Ave Bridge
Newburyport overpass with Stairs.
I took a turn on the Bruce Freeman trail the other day and came back with some images.
My images at Flickr
Bruce Freeman Rail Trail website
Phase 1 (6.8 miles in Lowell, Chelmsford, and Westford) is now open.
Tuesday June 13th, 7Pm
Nevins Memorial Library
Don’t forget !
bring a friend!
Methuen Rail Trail Alliance Cookout
Saturday July 17th at 4PM
At Kelly Tondo’s house.
If you have planned on joining the MRTA now is the time!
Just send in an email that you will be coming
as well as bringing something yummy with your membership fee.
Take the opportunity to get brought up to speed on the project and meet the rest of the gang.
Remember
Next Meeting: 7:00pm July 13, 2010 @ the Nevins Library
Tim Vermette has been a busy boy lately.
give the man a used lawnmower and he gives us back a trail you can jog on with pride.
Before and after images of the rail bed on Railroad St.
Tim Vermette, the MRTA Project Director has been sneaking out with a lawn mower clearing more and more trail bed every time. This is some of the work Tim did today. The sad part is that the weeds grow back as fast as he can cut them. Once the tracks are removed and an actual hard pack trail is put down, it will be much easier to keep the sides groomed for running and cycling. Cheers to Tim for his awesomeness!
Tags: cleanup, clearing, Today on the Trail
we only have one…and a homemade one at that…but hopefully by advertising our meetings in more than newspapers, we can draw in the curious and the just plain interested. If people think National Grid is doing all this trail clearing for US, we may as well take advantage of it.
Monday I joined Conservation Officer Joe Giarrusso and MBTA’s representative Bob Lavita out on the Methuen rail road right of way.
Methuen Rail Trail Alliance Officers
Rail Trail Clean Up Day Results!
