December 2021https://www.birdobserver.org/Issues/2021/December-2021Hot Birds: December 2021https://www.birdobserver.org/Issues/2021/December-2021/hot-birds-december-2021Hot BirdsWed, 01 Dec 2021 00:00:17 GMT<p class="caption"><img alt="" src="/Portals/0/Assets/bo49-6/HB_Wood_Stork_McMahon.png?ver=maf3Q8y-YQE7KLlHJja6GA%3d%3d" style="width: 366px; height: 216px;" /><br /> A <strong>Wood Stork</strong> was reported flying over Niles Pond in Gloucester on October 29. On November 4, Jeffrey Thomas came across one at Horn Pond in Woburn. The bird was in poor health, and the next day was captured and brought to New England Wildlife’s Birdsey Cape Wildlife Center, where it was still recuperating at press time. It was suggested that the Woburn bird was the one that had been seen in Gloucester a week earlier until a stork was photographed on the Annisquam River in Gloucester two days after the Woburn bird had been captured. Mary McMahon took the photo above.</p> <p class="caption"><img alt="" src="/Portals/0/Assets/bo49-6/HB_Pacific_Golden-Plover_Sullivan.png?ver=uSGhO6Rf9UdOC0fJ3avmsw%3d%3d" style="width: 366px; height: 379px;" /><br /> Suzanne Sullivan picked out a <strong>Pacific Golden-Plover</strong> from a crowd of 60-plus Killdeer at Spencer Pierce Little Farm in Newburyport. The fifth documented record for Massachusetts, it drew a crowd for the few days that it remained in town. Suzanne took the photo above.</p> To view the rest of the article you'll need to subscribe. Bird Observer publishes original articles on birding locations, on avian populations and natural history, on regional rarities, field notes, field records, photographs, and art work.