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Brook Farm and Gethsemane Cemetery, Suffolk, Massachusetts, US

May 31, 2026 8:00 AM – 10:00 AM

Protocol: Traveling

1.0 mile(s)

Checklist Comments:    Brookline Bird Club Bird Walk 5-31-26, co-led by Neil Calabro & Michael McCarthy

40 species

Mallard  1

Chimney Swift  2

American Herring Gull  2

Great Blue Heron  2

Red-bellied Woodpecker  4

Downy Woodpecker  3

Eastern Wood-Pewee  3

Eastern Phoebe  2

Great Crested Flycatcher  4

Eastern Warbling Vireo  5

Red-eyed Vireo  1

Blue Jay  5

American Crow  1

Black-capped Chickadee  2

Tufted Titmouse  2

Tree Swallow  2

Barn Swallow  1

White-breasted Nuthatch  1

Blue-gray Gnatcatcher  1

Northern House Wren  7

Carolina Wren  2

European Starling  7

Gray Catbird  4

American Robin  8

Cedar Waxwing  7

American Goldfinch  8

Chipping Sparrow  2

Song Sparrow  7

Swamp Sparrow  5

Baltimore Oriole  8

Red-winged Blackbird  8

Brown-headed Cowbird  1

Common Grackle  6

Black-and-white Warbler  2    Heard near entrance to cemetery

Common Yellowthroat  5

American Redstart  4

Bay-breasted Warbler  1

Northern Yellow Warbler  4

Blackpoll Warbler  1

Northern Cardinal  2

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S352799082

Millennium Park, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, US

May 31, 2026 10:46 AM – 11:31 AM

Song Sparrow  2

Common Yellowthroat  1

Northern Yellow Warbler  1

Millennium Park–West Roxbury High School Marsh, Suffolk, Massachusetts, US

May 31, 2026 11:47 AM – 12:32 PM

Protocol: Traveling

0.7 mile(s)

Checklist Comments:    Brookline Bird Club Bird Walk 5-31-26, co-led by Neil Calabro & Michael McCarthy

14 species

Mute Swan  1

Chimney Swift  2

Killdeer  2

Black-crowned Night Heron  1

Green Heron  1

Great Blue Heron  4

Osprey  2

Red-tailed Hawk  3

Northern Flicker  1

Eastern Kingbird  2

American Crow  1

Tree Swallow  3

Red-winged Blackbird  10

Northern Yellow Warbler  1

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S352799122

Cow Island Pond, Suffolk, Massachusetts, US

May 31, 2026 12:45 PM – 1:05 PM

Tree Swallow  2

Cliff Swallow  2    Observed flying over water from 20 ft away. Orangey brown around throat/breast. No birds with forked tails flying nearby.

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Bring Back Bobolinks! This year the BBC is introducing new Endangered Species Program. Each year we plan to focus on a single bird species facing serious threats in Massachusetts and elsewhere. With this effort we

Bring Back Bobolinks!

Bring Back Bobolinks! This year the BBC is introducing new Endangered Species Program. Each year we plan to focus on a single bird species facing serious threats in Massachusetts and elsewhere. With this effort we

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