Westboro WMA, Worcester, Massachusetts, US
Apr 28, 2025 7:00 AM – 10:00 AM
Protocol: Traveling
3.0 mile(s)
Checklist Comments: Brookline Bird Club Walk – Westboro WMA – Leader Nick Paulson, 10 participants, cool start, warming quick, clear, mild breeze. Good waves of Y-rumps and Palms, no orioles yet, Sora and V Rails calling.
49 species (+2 other taxa)
Canada Goose 25
Mute Swan 10
Wood Duck 8
Mallard 2
Ring-necked Pheasant 1 Continuing male by parking lot.
Mourning Dove 8
Virginia Rail 2
Sora 1 Responded to me mimicking a distant Virginia Rail poorly. Little Chauncy marsh where it goes under road in. On the way out heard several times again and seen in a quick pop up flight, body hanging from wings legs dangling in hop flight, darker than V Rail, short yellow bill. Will add recording.
Spotted Sandpiper 2
Double-crested Cormorant 1
Great Egret 1
Great Blue Heron (Great Blue) 2
Osprey (American) 1
Bald Eagle 1
Red-tailed Hawk (borealis) 1
Red-bellied Woodpecker 1
Downy Woodpecker (Eastern) 5
Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted) 1
Eastern Kingbird 3
Warbling Vireo (Eastern) 4
Blue Jay 20
American Crow 6
Common Raven 1
Black-capped Chickadee 12
Tufted Titmouse 8
Tree Swallow 30
Barn Swallow (American) 1
White-breasted Nuthatch (Eastern) 5
Northern House Wren (Northern) 2
European Starling 2
Gray Catbird 5
American Robin 24
American Goldfinch 8
Chipping Sparrow 1
White-throated Sparrow 6
Savannah Sparrow (Savannah) 9
Song Sparrow (melodia/atlantica) 12
Swamp Sparrow 7
Eastern Towhee 6
new world sparrow sp. 2 May have heard Junco, and a possible Field in flight.
Red-winged Blackbird (Red-winged) 40
Brown-headed Cowbird 15
Rusty Blackbird 6
Common Grackle (Bronzed) 18
Ovenbird 1
Black-and-white Warbler 1
Yellow Warbler (Northern) 5
Palm Warbler (Yellow) 14
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle) 80 Large early movement along Big Chauncy, spread out after, underestimate.
new world warbler sp. 2
Northern Cardinal 10
View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S230608554
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