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Gerry White photographed a downy woodpecker, mallard and wood ducks off Pelham Island Road in Wayland.

Raj Das photographed downy woodpeckers, a great blue heron, a mute swan, a tree swallow and a wood duck at Farm Pond in Framingham.

Raj Das photographed a downy woodpecker, great blue heron, northern flicker, palm warbler, savannah sparrow and tree swallow at Great Meadows National Wildlife Refuge in Concord.

Raj Das photographed a downy woodpecker, a pair of house finches, a tufted titmouse and a woodchuck along the Cochituate Rail Trail in Framingham.

Betsy Taylor-Kennedy photographed a downy woodpecker, tufted timouse and red-bellied woodpecker in her Bolton back yard.

Lydia Pastuszek photographed this pair of downy woodpeckers at her feeder in Sudbury.

Raj Das photographed a downy woodpecker along River Road in Sudbury.

Joan Chasan photographed this downy woodpecker in her Framingham back yard.

Steve from Stow photographed a downy woodpecker and a song sparrow in his back yard.

Steve from Stow photographed a downy woodpecker, mourning doves and a sharp-shinned hawk in his back yard.

Raj Das photographed a downy woodepcker, a pair of hooded mergansers and mute swans at Farm Pond in Framingham.

Raj Das photographed a black-capped chickadee, a downy woodpecker and a pair of northern cardinals along the Aqueduct Trail in Framingham.

Craig Smith photographed a Canada goose, downy woodpecker, lady beetle, mallards, northern paper wasp and a palm warbler at Assabet River National Wildlife Refuge in Maynard and Sudbury.

Raj Das photographed a black-capped chickadee and a downy woodpecker at Mass Audubon's Broadmoor Sanctuary in Natick.

Raj Das photographed an American goldfinch, downy woodpecker, pine warbler, snapping turtle and swamp sparrow at Great Meadows National Wildlife Refuge in Concord.

Craig Smith photographed the following at Heard Farm in Wayland: bobolink, cedar waxwing, cotton-tailed rabbit, downy woodpecker, mourning dove, rose-breasted grosbeak, song sparrow, yellow warbler.

 

Craig Smith photographed the following during a walk at SVT's General Federation on Women's Clubs of Massachusetts Memorial Forest in Sudbury: American bullfrog, clouded sulphur butterfly, downy woodpecker, fringed polygala, gray catbird, great blue heron, mourning dove, painted turtle, pink lady's slipper, scarlet tanager.

 

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.