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Winchendon/Royalston, Birch Hill WMA, Worcester, Massachusetts, US

Jul 12, 2025 7:00 AM – 12:15 PM

Protocol: Traveling

2.5 mile(s)

Checklist Comments:    BBC trip, Glenn d’Entremont & Ernie LeBlanc leaders; 4 participants

53 species

Mourning Dove  19

Great Blue Heron (Great Blue)  1

Cooper’s Hawk  1

Broad-winged Hawk  1

Yellow-bellied Sapsucker  4

Downy Woodpecker (Eastern)  3

Hairy Woodpecker (Eastern)  2

Pileated Woodpecker  1

Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted)  10

American Kestrel  1    likely recent fledgling

Eastern Wood-Pewee  2

Alder Flycatcher  1

Least Flycatcher  2

Eastern Phoebe  8

Great Crested Flycatcher  1

Eastern Kingbird  8

Red-eyed Vireo  11

Blue Jay  9

Black-capped Chickadee  11

Tufted Titmouse  2

Tree Swallow  20

White-breasted Nuthatch (Eastern)  5

Red-breasted Nuthatch  4

Northern House Wren  8

European Starling  X

Gray Catbird  10

Eastern Bluebird  14

Veery  6

Hermit Thrush  10

American Robin  14

Cedar Waxwing  12

Purple Finch (Eastern)  4

Red Crossbill  8    4 birds in road, 2 more flew over, 2 more at second spot

American Goldfinch  1

Chipping Sparrow  9

Field Sparrow  9

Dark-eyed Junco (Slate-colored)  1    female

Song Sparrow  12

Swamp Sparrow  3

Eastern Towhee  23

Baltimore Oriole  4

Red-winged Blackbird (Red-winged)  2

Brown-headed Cowbird  1

Common Grackle  5

Ovenbird  4

Black-and-white Warbler  4

Common Yellowthroat  19

Yellow Warbler (Northern)  2

Chestnut-sided Warbler  5

Pine Warbler  6

Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle)  1

Prairie Warbler  5

Scarlet Tanager  4

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S259941624

Eagle Reserve Conservation Area, Royalston, Worcester, Massachusetts, US

Jul 12, 2025 12:45 PM – 1:30 PM

Protocol: Traveling

0.5 mile(s)

Checklist Comments:    BBC trip, Glenn d’Entremont & Ernie LeBlanc leaders; 3 participants

23 species

Canada Goose  47

Wood Duck  25

Mourning Dove  7

Double-crested Cormorant  1

Great Blue Heron (Great Blue)  4

Turkey Vulture  1

Red-shouldered Hawk  1

Red-tailed Hawk  1

Eastern Wood-Pewee  2

Eastern Kingbird  1

Red-eyed Vireo  2

Black-capped Chickadee  2

Tree Swallow  25

Barn Swallow (American)  1

Gray Catbird  1

American Robin  2

Purple Finch (Eastern)  1

Chipping Sparrow  1

Song Sparrow  1

Swamp Sparrow  5

Red-winged Blackbird (Red-winged)  15

Common Yellowthroat  2

Pine Warbler  1

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S259941632

Royalston, Worcester, Massachusetts, US

Jul 12, 2025 1:45 PM – 2:15 PM

Protocol: Stationary

Checklist Comments:    BBC trip, Glenn d’Entremont & Ernie LeBlanc leaders; 3 participants

15 species

Ruby-throated Hummingbird  2

Red-bellied Woodpecker  1

Downy Woodpecker (Eastern)  2

Red-eyed Vireo  1

Black-capped Chickadee  2

White-breasted Nuthatch (Eastern)  2

Eastern Bluebird  1

American Robin  2

Cedar Waxwing  2

Evening Grosbeak  2    continuing birds at feeder; pair

Purple Finch (Eastern)  6

American Goldfinch  2

Chipping Sparrow  1

Song Sparrow  1

Scarlet Tanager  1

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S259941636

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