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Dawn Puliafico photographed an eastern bluebird and a turkey vulture at Gryncel Park in Ashland, hooded mergansers on the Sudbury River in Ashland, and a wood duck on Farm Pond in Framingham.

Dawn Puliafico photographed this wood duck at Farm Pond in Framingham.

Gregory Billingham submitted this list of birds he saw during a hike around Crane Swamp in Northborough and Westborough, including SVT's Cedar Hill Reservation and Sawink Farm Reservation.

• Canada Goose (Branta canadensis)  6
• Wood Duck (Aix sponsa)  1
• Red-bellied Woodpecker (Melanerpes carolinus)  1
• Downy Woodpecker (Picoides pubescens)  6
• Hairy Woodpecker (Picoides villosus)  2
• American Crow (Corvus brachyrhynchos)  3
• Black-capped Chickadee (Poecile atricapillus)  27
• Tufted Titmouse (Baeolophus bicolor)  21
• White-breasted Nuthatch (Sitta carolinensis)  8
• Carolina Wren (Thryothorus ludovicianus)  1
• Golden-crowned Kinglet (Regulus satrapa)  4
• Eastern Bluebird (Sialia sialis)  9     2 seen at Sawink; 7 near the top of Cedar Hill that has bluebird houses in the vicinity.
• Hermit Thrush (Catharus guttatus)  1
• American Robin (Turdus migratorius)  12
• Gray Catbird (Dumetella carolinensis)  1
• Northern Mockingbird (Mimus polyglottos)  1
• Cedar Waxwing (Bombycilla cedrorum)  26
• Song Sparrow (Melospiza melodia)  3
• Dark-eyed Junco (Junco hyemalis)  11
• Northern Cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis)  4
• American Goldfinch (Spinus tristis)  22

Marie Goeritz photographed the following on a trip to Upper and Lower Mill Brook Conservation Areas in Wayland: downy woodpecker, common garter snake, a muskrat dome, painted turtles, snapping turtle, wood ducks.

Marie Goeritz used her remote wildlife camera to photograph these wood ducks at SVT's Upper Mill Brook Conservation Area in Wayland.

 

Joan Chasan photographed American lotus, buttonbush, a Canada goose, an eastern kingbird, a snapping turtle and a female wood duck at Great Meadows National Wildlife Refuge in Concord.

Ron McAdow photographed a wood duck at Lindentree Farm in Lincoln.

Ron McAdow photographed several birds in Lincoln, pictured are a young Baltimore oriole, a recently fledged barn swallow, a downy woodpecker, a ruby-throated hummingbird, a song sparrow and a wood duck drake.

Craig Smith used a remote wildlife camera to photograph these wood ducks on Cranberry Brook at SVT's General Federation of Women's Clubs of Massachusetts Memorial Forest in Sudbury.

Craig Smith used a remote wildlife camera to photograph this wood duck on Cranberry Brook at SVT's General Federation of Women's Clubs of Massachusetts Memorial Forest in Sudbury.

Craig Smith used a remote wildlife camera to photograph these wood ducks on Cranberry Brook at SVT's General Federation of Women's Clubs of Massachusetts Memorial Forest in Sudbury.

 Jim and Nancy Santamaria submitted this photograph of a pair of wood ducks in Wayland.

Ron McAdow photographed these common mergansers on Farrar Pond in Lincoln.  Hooded mergansers and wood ducks were also present at the pond.

Craig Smith photographed the following birds during a visit to the Assabet River National Wildlife Refuge in Maynard: double-crested cormorant, eastern kingbird, great blue heron, mallards, northern rough-winged swallow, osprey and wood duck.

Lydia Rogers used her automatically triggered wildlife camera to photograph these wood ducks in Concord.

Craig Smith photographed a pair of American black ducks, an eastern bluebird, a muskrat, a white-breasted nuthatch, and a pair of wood ducks at the Assabet River National Wildlife Refuge in Maynard.

Craig Smith photographed the following birds at the Assabet River National Wildlife Refuge in Maynard:

brown creeper, double-crested cormorant, green-winged teal, white-breasted nuthatch, red-bellied woodpecker, song sparrow and wood ducks.

 

Craig Smith photographed these wood ducks at the Stow Town Forest.

Craig Smith photographed these Wood Ducks at the Assabet River National Wildlife Refuge in Maynard.