​Leslie Bostrom led a group of 16 on a 5 mile walk at Great Swamp,  through various habitats to and around the impoundment area, giving us good looks at a variety of birds including some early warblers, a kestrel, lingering ring-necked ducks, 7 nesting pairs of osprey and topped-off with a Broad-winged Hawk soaring over the parking lot at the very end of the walk.

​Michael Kieron led 7 participants on a walk of the Nature Conservancy's Lime Rock Preserve which has some unique features, soils and interesting history. Michael, a life long Rhode Islander and curator for the Roger Williams Park Natural History Museum, is a geologist as well as birder and knows a lot of local history about many parts of the state.  So, in addition to having a pleasant bird walk, including watching a flicker excavating a nesting cavity, we learned a great deal from Michael about the geology and history of the preserve while we walked.  The alkaline soils of the area make it the preserve a site for rare flowers that will bloom during the months of June and July inviting a visit during the summer, as well as later in May when migrant birds have arrived.

Ocean state bird club walk led by Leslie Bostrom at Cumberland Farms Fields --River St. entrance, Plymouth, Massachusetts, US Mar 12, 2016 8:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Protocol: Traveling, 11 participants
2.5 mile(s)
28 species
Canada Goose  1000
American Black Duck  2
Mallard  14
Green-winged Teal  5
Great Blue Heron  1
Turkey Vulture  1
Northern Harrier  6
Sharp-shinned Hawk  2
Red-tailed Hawk  6
Rough-legged Hawk  4
Killdeer  10
Ring-billed Gull  50
Herring Gull  10
American Crow  24
Horned Lark  35
Tufted Titmouse  3
White-breasted Nuthatch  1
American Robin  X
European Starling  X
American Tree Sparrow  10
White-crowned Sparrow  1     First winter bird.
Song Sparrow  30
Northern Cardinal  4
Red-winged Blackbird  many hundreds
Rusty Blackbird  1
​Common Grackle  10
Brown-headed Cowbird  2
American Goldfinch  2