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Fruitlands Museum, Harvard, 100-132 Prospect Hill Road, Worcester, Massachusetts, US

Apr 4, 2026 6:50 AM – 9:30 AM

Protocol: Traveling

2.2 mile(s)

Checklist Comments:    Became sunny.  54F but breezy with a windchill.

34 species

Mourning Dove  3

Turkey Vulture  7

Cooper’s Hawk  1

Bald Eagle  1

Red-tailed Hawk  2

Belted Kingfisher  1    Seen and heard; F-O at the parking lot at end.

Red-bellied Woodpecker  1

Downy Woodpecker  1

Pileated Woodpecker  1

Northern Flicker  2

American Kestrel  2    Pair near museum.

Eastern Phoebe  8    Possibly more

Blue Jay  9    Probably more

American Crow  4

Common Raven  2

Black-capped Chickadee  4

Tufted Titmouse  4

Tree Swallow  1    One seen by a few of us above the gifts shop building on arrival.

White-breasted Nuthatch  1

Red-breasted Nuthatch  3    In the woods on lower trail between New Meadow and the Alcott House trailhead.

Northern Mockingbird  2

Eastern Bluebird  6

American Robin  30    Conservative count.  Seemed to be everywhere.

House Sparrow  3

House Finch  4

American Goldfinch  7

Chipping Sparrow  1    1 Chipping Sparrow heard in woods upper canopy.  Other sighting noted in Boxborough indicating return.

Fox Sparrow  1    Heard very clearly by almost all of us as we approached New Meadow.  Confirmed by Merlin.  Could not find it.

Song Sparrow  5

Red-winged Blackbird  2

Brown-headed Cowbird  1

Common Grackle  1    F-O

Pine Warbler  7

Northern Cardinal  3    All males

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S316816411

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