Sudbury Valley Trustees

Nature Sightings

Welcome to the Nature Sightings section of our website. Here, we post nature sightings that have been reported to us throughout the Sudbury, Assabet and Concord Rivers Valley. Sudbury Valley Trustees is also continuing the work of the Wildlife Trails Education Project and will post pictures taken from our automatically triggered cameras. If you have an interesting sighting or a picture you would like to share e-mail Dan Stimson at dstimson@sudburyvalleytrustees.org

Click here to learn more about our automatic wildlife cameras.

Highway Underpass Monitoring: Read how SVT has helped to monitor wildlife passages beneath route 2 in Concord, and view photos from the project.

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American Bullfrog American Coot American Goldfinch American Kestrel American Robin American Toad American Woodcock Bald Eagle Bald-faced Hornet Baltimore Oriole Barn Swallow Barred Owl Beaver Belted Kingfisher Black Swallowtail Black-billed Cuckoo Black-capped Chickadee Black-crowned Night Heron Blue Dasher Blue Jay Blue-spotted Salamander Blue-winged Teal Blue-winged Warbler Bluet Bobcat Bobolink Broad-winged Hawk Brook Trout Brown Creeper Brown Snake Brown Thrasher Bumble Bee Cabbage White Canada Goose Canvasback Carolina Wren Cecropia Moth Cedar Waxwing Chestnut Tree Chipping Sparrow Cicada Colonial Bryozoan Common Garter Snake Common Grackle Common Merganser Common Nighthawk Common Redpoll Common Ringlet Common Whitetail Common Yellowthroat Compton Tortoiseshell Butterfly Cooper's Hawk Cotton-tailed Rabbit Coyote Dark-eyed Junco Double-crested Cormorant Downy Rattlesnake Plantain Downy Woodpecker Dragonfly Early Saxifrage Eastern Amberwing Eastern Blue-eyed Grass Eastern Bluebird Eastern Box Turtle Eastern Carpenter Bee Eastern Chipmunk Eastern Comma Eastern Garter Snake Eastern Kingbird Eastern Phoebe Eastern Pine Elfin Eastern Pondhawk Eastern Red-backed Salamander Eastern Ribbon Snake Eastern Screech Owl Eastern Towhee Eastern Wood-Pewee Eastern-tailed Blue Ebony Jewelwing European Starling Eyed Brown Fisher Flying Squirrel Fringed Polygala Golden-crowned Kinglet Goldthread Gray Catbird Gray Fox Gray Squirrel Gray Tree Frog Great Blue Heron Great Crested Flycatcher Great Egret Great Horned Owl Green Frog Green Heron Green Metallic Bee Green-winged Teal Helleborine Hermit Thrush Honey Bee Hooded Merganser House Finch House Wren Hummingbird Clearwing Moth Indian Cucumber Root Indian Pipe Indigo Bunting Jack-in-the-pulpit Jumping Spider Juvenal's Duskywing Killdeer Lady Beetle Large-flowered Trillium Lily of the Valley Little Brown Bat Little Wood Satyr Lobster Mushroom Long-tailed Weasel Magnolia Warbler Mallard Marsh Marigold Marsh St. Johns Wort Mink Monarch Butterfly Moose Mourning Cloak Mourning Dove Mouse Muskrat Mute Swan Nodding Ladies Tresses Nodding Trillium Northern Cardinal Northern Flicker Northern Harrier Northern Leopard Frog Northern Mockingbird Northern Parula Northern Pike Northern Water Snake Opossum Osprey Ovenbird Painted Turtle Palm Warbler Perfoliate Bellwort Pickerel Frog Pied-billed Grebe Pileated Woodpecker Pine Siskin Pine Warbler Pinesap Pink Lady's Slipper Potter Wasp Purple Finch Pussy Willow Raccoon Red Fox Red Squirrel Red-bellied Woodpecker Red-breasted Nuthatch Red-spotted Admiral Butterfly Red-tailed Hawk Red-winged Blackbird Redear Sunfish Ring-necked Duck Ring-necked Pheasant River Otter Rose-breasted Grosbeak Ruby Crowned Kinglet Ruby-throated Hummingbird Ruddy Duck Ruffed Grouse Rusty Blackbird Sassafras Savannah Sparrow Scarlet Tanager Shadow Darner Dragonfly Shaggy Mane Sharp-shinned Hawk Skunk Snapping Turtle Snow Goose Snowshoe Hare Solitary Sandpiper Song Sparrow Spotted Salamander Spotted Turtle Spring Azure Spring Peeper Square-stemmed Monkey Flower Squawroot Striped Hairstreak Striped Wintergreen Swamp Sparrow Tree Swallow Trout Lily Trumpeter Swan Tufted Titmouse Turkey Turkey Vulture Turtlehead Viceroy Butterfly Violet Walkingstick Wasp White-breasted Nuthatch White-tailed Deer White-throated Sparrow Widow Skimmer Wild Columbine Wild Geranium Willow Flycatcher Wood Anemone Wood Duck Wood Frogs Wood Thrush Woodchuck Yellow Perch Yellow Warbler Yellow-rumped Warbler
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Date: May 08, 2008
Location: Acton
Anne Dykiel saw a Ruby-throated Hummingbird in Acton.

Date: May 07, 2008
Location: Acton

Anne Dykiel photographed this Rose-breasted Grosbeak in Acton (click on an image for a larger view).

Date: May 06, 2008
Location: Stow

Dan Rossignol regularly sees fishers passing through his yard in Stow.  Here is a photo of one that he "treed."

Date: May 05, 2008
Location: Sudbury

Dawn Dentzer photographed this red fox in her yard in Sudbury (click on an image for a larger view).

Date: May 05, 2008
Location: Lyons-Cutler Reservation, Sudbury

Tom Manders photographed this beaver at the Lyons-Cutler Reservation in Sudbury (click on image for a larger view).

Date: May 04, 2008
Location: Sudbury

Dawn Dentzer photographed this Eastern Phoebe that flew into her home, the bird flew out shortly later (click on image for a larger view).

Date: April 26, 2008
Location: Acton

Anne Dykiel photographed this Eastern Bluebird in Acton (click on image for a larger view).

Date: April 26, 2008
Location: Southborough

Deborah Costine photographed this cecropia moth in Southborough.  Debbie had found an injured moth laying eggs on a nearby lawn last summer.  She tended the eggs, caterpillars and cocoons until they recently hatched into moths (click on an image for a larger view).

Date: April 24, 2008
Location: Sudbury River, Southborough/Hopkinton

Sally Waters photographed this beaver in the Sudbury River on the Southborough and Hopkinton border (click on an image for a larger view).

Date: April 24, 2008
Location: Acton

Anne Dykiel photographed this Eastern Bluebird in Acton (click on image for a larger view).