Winter Birding at Riverside Park in Cambridge with David Gascoigne
Saturday, February 22, 2025
We went to Riverside Park to learn about birds, and feed them!


We learned that when chickadees say “chickadee” they’re happy, and when they say “chickadee-dee” they’re a bit upset, and when they say “chickadee-dee-dee-dee” they’re really mad.
We learned that female ducks are less colourful because they have to sit on the nest. If they were bright like the males all the predators would find them. The river was all frozen and the ducks were swimming through the snow on top of the ice.


We learned that woodpeckers are a keystone species because they make holes for other animals to live in. Chickadees, sparrows, bluebirds, swallows, blue jays, and squirrels all use old woodpecker nest holes.


We saw chickadees, sparrows, mourning doves, crows, blue jays, cardinals and woodpeckers, and a lot of bunny poop.
Reported by: River and Isla

A list of birds that we saw:
- Mallard
- Mourning Dove
- Ring-billed Gull
- Red-bellied Woodpecker
- Downy Woodpecker
- Blue Jay
- American Crow
- Black-capped Chickadee
- House Sparrow
- American Tree Sparrow
- Dark-eyed Junco
- White-throated Sparrow
- Northern Cardinal