On February 22, David Pritchard filed an eBird report with photos of what he identified as a Barred Owl from a swamp in a remote area east of Williamsburg. But raptor-watcher Brian Rusnica looked at David’s photos several days later and realized that they actually showed a Great Gray Owl! Possibly the first one documented in the state since 1996, it unfortunately was never relocated after its identification. David took the picture above.

A wave of Summer Tanagers passed through at the end of April and beginning of May, with a male in Cummaquid occurring simultaneously with a female at Mount Auburn, then what appeared to be a different bird in the Boston Public Garden a few days later, while another was found out west in the Berkshires! Jeff Offerman took the photo above.

Alan Kneidel and Nathaniel Marchessault found a Mew Gull of the European subspecies, the “Common Gull”, at Race Point on April 15. Will Sweet arrived a couple of hours later and photographed what he thought to be the same bird, but after posting his to eBird, his bird turned out to be the Asian subspecies, “Kamchatka Gull” from the same beach on the same morning! The European bird may have been the same one photographed there by Blair Nikula in March. Will took the photo above.

Nate Dubrow photographed a Brown Pelican at Crane’s Beach on May 6; it was seen from Annisquam a few hours later, and presumably the same bird was spotted passing Point of Pines two days after that, and over Winthrop Beach, heading toward Boston Harbor, an additional three days later. Nate took the photo above.