Skinner State Park, Hampshire, Massachusetts, US
Jun 4, 2016 11:00 AM – 2:30 PM
Protocol: Traveling
4.5 mile(s)
Comments:     BBC – Westover Air Force Base for Grassland Birds – Leader: Linda Ferraresso – multiple locations – Continuation of the BBC Westover AFB Grassland complex walk earlier in the morning.  Birds observed primarily from Halfway house to the Summit house, though a few were heard on the drive up to the Halfway House and at the base parking lot.
32 species

Turkey Vulture  1
Red-shouldered Hawk  2
Yellow-billed Cuckoo  2
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker  1
Hairy Woodpecker  1
Eastern Wood-Pewee  5
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher  1
Eastern Phoebe  3
Great Crested Flycatcher  1
Yellow-throated Vireo  1
Red-eyed Vireo  15
Tufted Titmouse  1
White-breasted Nuthatch  1
Veery  1
Hermit Thrush  1
Wood Thrush  2
American Robin  8
Cedar Waxwing  1
Ovenbird  10
Black-and-white Warbler  3
American Redstart  5
Cerulean Warbler  5
Blackburnian Warbler  1
Yellow Warbler  1     Seen at Barstow’s at the base of the park
Black-throated Green Warbler  1
Chipping Sparrow  2
Dark-eyed Junco  3
Scarlet Tanager  2
Rose-breasted Grosbeak  2
Indigo Bunting  2
Brown-headed Cowbird  1
Baltimore Oriole  1

View this checklist online at http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S30083077

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