Nature Sightings

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.

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.

Latest Sightings:

Flying Squirrel

Sighting Date:

November 18, 2008

Jack Russel writes that he saw a flying squirrel at Russell's Garden Center in Wayland: "I saw a flying squirrel at 6PM while closing up the store on Wenesday evening. It flew right in front of me, landed on a tree about four feet away, looked at me, scampered up to the top of the tree and glided off. There have been several other sightings after dark around the property, but it was moving so fast, just a grey blur, that no one has had a real strong ID on it."

Birds at Upper Mill Brook

Sighting Date:

November 11, 2008

Barbarah Howell saw the following birds on a recent walk at Upper Mill Brook in Wayland:

Great Blue Heron (1), Am. Black Duck (4), Mallard (3), Red-tailed Hawk (1), Red-bellied Woodpecker (2), Blue Jay (2), Am. Crow (2), Black-capped Chickadee (5), White-breasted Nuthatch (3), Eastern Bluebird (1), Swamp Sparrow (1), Dark-eyed Junco (6), Am. Goldfinch (8)