Farm Meadow, Lincoln, Middlesex, Massachusetts, US

Jun 23, 2024 8:01 AM – 10:25 AM

Protocol: Traveling

1.913 mile(s)

Checklist Comments:    BBC – Bobolinks at Farm Meadow, Lincoln – Leaders: Mathias Bitter and Kathy Dia – Pouring rain stopped right before the walk but it stayed cloudy and drizzly for most of the trip. Still a nice variety of birds, including the Bobolinks visiting a nest. A fox was also seen hopping through the field and some of us thought it could’ve been a Gray Fox.

39 species

Wood Duck  1    Immature male in pond by Codman Farm

Mourning Dove  2

Ruby-throated Hummingbird  2

Killdeer  2

Cooper’s Hawk  1    Mobbed by starlings and blackbirds.

Red-bellied Woodpecker  2

Downy Woodpecker  2

Eastern Wood-Pewee  1

Great Crested Flycatcher  1

Eastern Kingbird  3

Red-eyed Vireo  1

Blue Jay  9

Black-capped Chickadee  4

Tufted Titmouse  2

Barn Swallow (American)  12

White-breasted Nuthatch  1

Carolina Wren  3

European Starling  20

Gray Catbird  4

Brown Thrasher  1    Mimicking CAWR in some dense bushes on the edge of the meadow. Sound didn’t match GRCA and group eliminated NOMO based on how hidden it was and volume of song.

Eastern Bluebird  3

Veery  2    Calling on the sides of the dirt path by the train tracks

Wood Thrush  3

American Robin  10

Cedar Waxwing  4

House Sparrow  12

American Goldfinch  6

Chipping Sparrow  4

Song Sparrow  5

Bobolink  3    2 males and 1 female. One male carrying food and visiting probable nest site. Female flew out of nest site briefly.

Baltimore Oriole  1

Red-winged Blackbird (Red-winged)  6

Brown-headed Cowbird  4

Common Grackle  5

Ovenbird  1

Common Yellowthroat  3

Northern Cardinal  4

Rose-breasted Grosbeak  2    Pair. male landed on path

Indigo Bunting  1

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S185271927

Cold Spring Park, Newton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, US

Jun 23, 2024 7:44 AM – 9:29 AM

Protocol: Traveling

2.44 mile(s)

Checklist Comments:    Overcast, 70 degrees, rain from 8 to 8:45, with light rain after. A Galbatross – Brookline Bird Club walk, focusing on observing female birds and behaviors. Song fragments and chips heard high in trees, but birds were not located.

18 species

Mallard  7    3 females, one with chicks swimming.

Mourning Dove  1

Chimney Swift  2

Red-bellied Woodpecker  2    Vocalizing- chirping.

Downy Woodpecker  1    Female

Northern Flicker  1    Female

American Kestrel  1    In flight over the ball field near the dog park

Blue Jay  10

Tufted Titmouse  4

Carolina Wren  6

European Starling  20

Gray Catbird  15

American Robin  18    Males and females

American Goldfinch  4    Singing high in trees

Song Sparrow  5    Vocalizing, one very downy chick perched on a branch near an adult

Red-winged Blackbird  8    Males observed, vocalizing, perching and landing in cattails

Common Grackle  10    Adults and juveniles on the grassy fields and glying

Northern Cardinal  3

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S185271917

Bolton Flats WMA–Pine Hill Rd. Grasslands, Worcester, Massachusetts, US

Jun 22, 2024 5:49 AM – 11:04 AM

Protocol: Traveling

2.5 mile(s)

Checklist Comments:    Brookline Bird Club -Pine Hill Rd. Grassland – Leader: Kathy Dia – Misty weather early, and mild temperatures, upper 60’s to low 70’s F, after a very hot week (upper 90’s F ). We had a large number of Grasshopper Sparrows, but no Vesper Sparrows. The surprise of the day was a young Black Bear on Pine Hill Rd. as we walked to the pond near the entrance! One person in the group mentioned that this is the time of year that two-year old males disperse from their mother, and perhaps that was the case with this bear.

48 species

Mourning Dove  3

Chimney Swift  2

Killdeer  1

Great Blue Heron  3

Osprey  1

Cooper’s Hawk  1    Calling repeatedly near the entrance.

Belted Kingfisher  1    flyover

Downy Woodpecker (Eastern)  1

Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted)  2

Eastern Wood-Pewee  1

Great Crested Flycatcher  2

Eastern Kingbird  1

Warbling Vireo  3

Red-eyed Vireo  1    Before the walk

Blue Jay  3

Black-capped Chickadee  1

Tufted Titmouse  1

Bank Swallow  4    Could be using the sand quarry banks

Tree Swallow  14

Barn Swallow  1

White-breasted Nuthatch (Eastern)  1

Red-breasted Nuthatch  1

Blue-gray Gnatcatcher  1

European Starling  6

Gray Catbird  1

Eastern Bluebird  7

Hermit Thrush  1

Wood Thrush  1

American Robin  2

Cedar Waxwing  6

American Goldfinch  7

Grasshopper Sparrow  13    Conservative count. Four seen at once.

Chipping Sparrow  12

Field Sparrow  5

Savannah Sparrow (Savannah)  2

Song Sparrow  1    Before walk near the pond

Eastern Towhee  11

Bobolink  1    Spotted by Laura, in a tall pine shortly before the sand pile. Maybe the first that I have seen here, though it certainly seems like appropriate habitat.

Red-winged Blackbird (Red-winged)  2    At the pond

Brown-headed Cowbird  5

Ovenbird  2

Black-and-white Warbler  1    Singing the tall pines  near the sand pile

Common Yellowthroat  3

American Redstart  4    Two pairs by the pond at the entrance.

Pine Warbler  3

Prairie Warbler  10

Northern Cardinal  2

Indigo Bunting  5

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S183261031

Willard Brook State Forest, Middlesex, Massachusetts, US

Jun 22, 2024 7:30 AM – 8:58 AM

Protocol: Traveling

2.605 mile(s)

Checklist Comments:    BBC trip, J. Forbes leader. 65, misty/foggy. Mostly Friends Loop

28 species

Mourning Dove  1

Great Blue Heron (Great Blue)  1

Belted Kingfisher  2

Downy Woodpecker (Eastern)  2

Hairy Woodpecker (Eastern)  1

Eastern Wood-Pewee  3

Eastern Phoebe  2

Blue-headed Vireo  2

Red-eyed Vireo  2

Blue Jay  6

Black-capped Chickadee  5

Tufted Titmouse  6

Northern Rough-winged Swallow  2

White-breasted Nuthatch (Eastern)  2

Brown Creeper  2

Gray Catbird  1

Veery  1

Hermit Thrush (faxoni/crymophilus)  4

American Robin  3

Chipping Sparrow  4

Eastern Towhee  3    M, f, juv, probably more

Common Grackle (Bronzed)  2

Louisiana Waterthrush  2    Flew up to the beach(!) while waiting to see if anyone else was joining

Black-and-white Warbler  3

Black-throated Blue Warbler  1

Pine Warbler  2

Black-throated Green Warbler  1

Scarlet Tanager  2

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S185271932

Plum Island (please use more refined location), Essex, Massachusetts, US

Jun 22, 2024 7:16 AM – 12:42 PM

Protocol: Traveling

0.09 mile(s)

Checklist Comments:    My Brookline Bird Club Summer Solstice Saunter Day List. 

We started the trip at 7AM at Plum Island Parking Lot #1 and birded our way south to Hellcat, where we ended the trip at noon. 

Weather: 65°F, overcast, breezy. Fantastic morning to be out birding!

60 species

Canada Goose  31

Mute Swan  1

Gadwall  8

Mallard  5

American Black Duck  4

Mourning Dove  15

Killdeer  15

Lesser Yellowlegs  2

Willet  15

Greater Yellowlegs  5

Dunlin  1    Rufus back, black under belly, curved bill seen by everyone on the trip.

Least Sandpiper  5

Herring Gull  1

Great Black-backed Gull  2

Least Tern  6

Common Tern  13

Double-crested Cormorant  11

American Bittern  1

Black-crowned Night Heron  1

Snowy Egret  5

Great Egret  14

Great Blue Heron  1

Glossy Ibis  2

Turkey Vulture  1

Osprey  6

Bald Eagle  2

Northern Flicker  1

Eastern Wood-Pewee  3

Willow Flycatcher  1

Great Crested Flycatcher  2

Eastern Kingbird  9

Blue Jay  2

Black-capped Chickadee  4

Tree Swallow  11

Purple Martin  22

Barn Swallow  3

House Wren  1

Marsh Wren  17

Gray Catbird  29

Brown Thrasher  1

Northern Mockingbird  8

American Robin  6

Cedar Waxwing  11

House Sparrow  12

Purple Finch  5

American Goldfinch  12

Field Sparrow  2

Saltmarsh Sparrow  1

Song Sparrow  10

Swamp Sparrow  2

Eastern Towhee  8

Bobolink  3

Orchard Oriole  2

Baltimore Oriole  1

Red-winged Blackbird  36

Common Grackle  42

Common Yellowthroat  10

American Redstart  13

Yellow Warbler  9

Northern Cardinal  1

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S185271911

George L. Darey Housatonic Valley WMA, Lenox, Berkshire, Massachusetts, US

Jun 16, 2024 6:00 AM – 6:45 AM

Protocol: Traveling

0.5 mile(s)

Checklist Comments:    BBC/SSBC trip; Glenn d’Entremont leader, 2 participants

38 species

Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon)  X

Mourning Dove  2

Green Heron  1

Belted Kingfisher  1

Yellow-bellied Sapsucker  2

Red-bellied Woodpecker  1

Downy Woodpecker (Eastern)  1

Eastern Wood-Pewee  2

Alder Flycatcher  2

Willow Flycatcher  3

Least Flycatcher  2

Eastern Phoebe  2

Great Crested Flycatcher  1

Eastern Kingbird  1

Warbling Vireo (Eastern)  3

Red-eyed Vireo  1

American Crow  2

Cliff Swallow  4    only 2 seen today; at least 4 present on June 14 and likely more; nesting under bridge, cool morning

White-breasted Nuthatch (Eastern)  1

Gray Catbird  6

Veery  6

Wood Thrush  1

American Robin  2

Cedar Waxwing  6

American Goldfinch  3

Song Sparrow  3

Swamp Sparrow  1

Orchard Oriole  1    1st yr male

Baltimore Oriole  2

Red-winged Blackbird (Red-winged)  10

Brown-headed Cowbird  1

Common Grackle  4

Ovenbird  1

Black-and-white Warbler  1

Common Yellowthroat  2

American Redstart  3

Yellow Warbler (Northern)  4

Northern Cardinal  3

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S183260888

October Mountain SF, Berkshire, Massachusetts, US

Jun 16, 2024 7:00 AM – 11:15 AM

Protocol: Traveling

10.0 mile(s)

Checklist Comments:    BBC/SSBC trip; Glenn d’Entremont leader, 2 participants

56 species

Mourning Dove  6

Black-billed Cuckoo  1

Ruby-throated Hummingbird  2    males

Great Blue Heron (Great Blue)  1

Cooper’s Hawk  1

Red-shouldered Hawk  1

Broad-winged Hawk  1

Yellow-bellied Sapsucker  14

Downy Woodpecker (Eastern)  4

Pileated Woodpecker  2

Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted)  2

Alder Flycatcher  4

Eastern Phoebe  1

Eastern Kingbird  3

Blue-headed Vireo  5

Red-eyed Vireo  39

Blue Jay  7

Black-capped Chickadee  9

Tree Swallow  9

Red-breasted Nuthatch  3

Brown Creeper  3

House Wren  1

Winter Wren  2

Gray Catbird  6

Eastern Bluebird  3

Veery  23

Hermit Thrush  2

Wood Thrush  1

American Robin  5

Cedar Waxwing  10

Purple Finch (Eastern)  5

American Goldfinch  2

Chipping Sparrow  4

White-throated Sparrow  4

Song Sparrow  7

Swamp Sparrow  7

Eastern Towhee  1

Baltimore Oriole  3

Red-winged Blackbird (Red-winged)  15

Brown-headed Cowbird  1

Common Grackle  4

Ovenbird  20

Northern Waterthrush  4

Black-and-white Warbler  8

Common Yellowthroat  18

American Redstart  2

Magnolia Warbler  3

Blackburnian Warbler  6

Chestnut-sided Warbler  15

Black-throated Blue Warbler  7

Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle)  4

Black-throated Green Warbler  2

Canada Warbler  8

Scarlet Tanager  5

Rose-breasted Grosbeak  4

Indigo Bunting  6

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S183260905

Halibut Point SP, Essex, Massachusetts, US

Jun 16, 2024 7:59 AM – 10:34 AM

Protocol: Traveling

1.257 mile(s)

Checklist Comments:    BBC – Halibut Point State Park, Rockport, Morning – Leader: Peter Van Demark – clear, mild, light breeze

30 species

Mallard  11

Mourning Dove  2

Chimney Swift  1

Herring Gull  14

Great Black-backed Gull  1

Double-crested Cormorant  11

Green Heron  1

Turkey Vulture  1

Red-tailed Hawk  1

Eastern Kingbird  2

Blue Jay  2

American Crow  2

Black-capped Chickadee  1    Heard only

Tufted Titmouse  1    Heard only

Barn Swallow  2

House Wren  2    Nesting in Bluebird box

European Starling  3

Gray Catbird  5

Brown Thrasher  1

Northern Mockingbird  1    Heard only

American Robin  1

House Sparrow  1

House Finch  5

American Goldfinch  2

Song Sparrow  1

Baltimore Oriole  1

Red-winged Blackbird  1    Female

Brown-headed Cowbird  1

Common Grackle  5

Northern Cardinal  3

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S183260977

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

Jun 15, 2024 6:58 AM – 9:40 AM

Protocol: Traveling

2.0 mile(s)

Checklist Comments:    Sandy and Rita (had to leave at 8:45) led for Boxborough Birders and Brookline Bird Club.  Sunny, breezy. 60sF

48 species

Wild Turkey  3

Mourning Dove  3

Ruby-throated Hummingbird  1

Turkey Vulture  2

Red-tailed Hawk  2

Red-bellied Woodpecker  5

Downy Woodpecker  2

Hairy Woodpecker  1

Northern Flicker  4

Eastern Wood-Pewee  1

Eastern Phoebe  5

Great Crested Flycatcher  1

Eastern Kingbird  1

Blue-headed Vireo  1

Red-eyed Vireo  3

Blue Jay  1

Black-capped Chickadee  10

Tufted Titmouse  2

Barn Swallow  1

Brown Creeper  3

Carolina Wren  1

European Starling  7

Gray Catbird  8

Northern Mockingbird  1

Eastern Bluebird  2

American Robin  8

Cedar Waxwing  3

House Sparrow  2

American Goldfinch  7

Chipping Sparrow  2

Song Sparrow  5

Bobolink  3

Baltimore Oriole  2

Red-winged Blackbird  3

Brown-headed Cowbird  3

Common Grackle  3

Ovenbird  4

Blue-winged Warbler  5

Black-and-white Warbler  5

Common Yellowthroat  4

American Redstart  3

Yellow Warbler  3

Chestnut-sided Warbler  4

Pine Warbler  3

Scarlet Tanager  1

Northern Cardinal  2

Rose-breasted Grosbeak  1

Indigo Bunting  3

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S200439205

Mount Greylock State Reservation, Berkshire, Massachusetts, US

Jun 15, 2024 6:00 AM – 2:15 PM

Protocol: Traveling

15.0 mile(s)

Checklist Comments:    BBC/SSBC trip, Glenn d’Entremont leader, 1 participant

54 species

Mourning Dove  1

Chimney Swift  1

Barred Owl  1

Yellow-bellied Sapsucker  7

Downy Woodpecker (Eastern)  1

Hairy Woodpecker (Eastern)  1

Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted)  1

Eastern Wood-Pewee  2

Eastern Phoebe  1

Eastern Kingbird  1

Yellow-throated Vireo  3

Blue-headed Vireo  9

Red-eyed Vireo  83

Blue Jay  5

American Crow  2

Black-capped Chickadee  6

Tufted Titmouse  2

Tree Swallow  2

Golden-crowned Kinglet  5

White-breasted Nuthatch (Eastern)  1

Red-breasted Nuthatch  2

Brown Creeper  2

House Wren  1

Winter Wren  6

Gray Catbird  4

Eastern Bluebird  1

Veery  9

Swainson’s Thrush  1

Hermit Thrush  5

American Robin  26

Cedar Waxwing  3

Purple Finch  5

Red Crossbill  25    heard a couple from the campground, the balance from Saddleball trail; could never see any as they flew over; could have been as many as 50 or little as 10, but the same group would have to keep flying over/in circles

Pine Siskin  2

Chipping Sparrow  4

Field Sparrow  3

Dark-eyed Junco (Slate-colored)  23

White-throated Sparrow  1    on the saddleball trail, the first one since about 15 years.  Wind conditions made the top impossible to say if any change, but no WTSP recorded there; bird winking out at Greylock

Eastern Towhee  11

Ovenbird  62

Black-and-white Warbler  5

Mourning Warbler  1

Common Yellowthroat  6

American Redstart  13

Magnolia Warbler  1

Blackburnian Warbler  19

Chestnut-sided Warbler  17

Black-throated Blue Warbler  14

Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle)  5

Black-throated Green Warbler  7

Canada Warbler  3

Scarlet Tanager  6

Rose-breasted Grosbeak  4

Indigo Bunting  9

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S183260675

Post Farm Marsh, Lenox, Berkshire, Massachusetts, US

Jun 15, 2024 6:30 PM – 7:45 PM

Protocol: Traveling

0.5 mile(s)

Checklist Comments:    BBC/SSBC trip, Glenn d’Entremont leader, 1 participant

32 species

Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon)  X

Mourning Dove  3

Virginia Rail  1

Least Bittern  1    heard “oo-oo-oo” and thought cuckoo?; then heard again thought “sounds like a Least Bittern” and the third time I had got to the bridge and the bird called from cattails on the river side (quite more extensive since the last time I was there) and before I put the scope down it flew out toward the two rusted electrical wire stanchions.  It was still calling when I left

Belted Kingfisher  1    female

Pileated Woodpecker  1

Eastern Kingbird  1

Warbling Vireo (Eastern)  2

Red-eyed Vireo  3

Blue Jay  1

Black-capped Chickadee  1

Tree Swallow  5

Barn Swallow (American)  1

Marsh Wren  6

European Starling  X

Gray Catbird  3

Veery  4

American Robin  4

Cedar Waxwing  3

House Finch  4

American Goldfinch  4

Field Sparrow  1

Song Sparrow  4

Swamp Sparrow  6

Red-winged Blackbird (Red-winged)  30

Common Grackle  4

Ovenbird  2

Common Yellowthroat  3

Yellow Warbler (Northern)  6

Chestnut-sided Warbler  2

Scarlet Tanager  1

Indigo Bunting  2

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S183260691

Cumberland Farms–River St. Entrance, Plymouth, Massachusetts, US

Jun 15, 2024 8:57 AM – 12:03 PM

Cumberland Farms meadow hike with the MYBC–Highlight birds BOBO; BANS; WIFL, among others. Dog Ticks in no short supply. Lots of snails.

Many leps as well: 5 Least Skippers, 1 Painted Lady, 2 Zabulon Skippers, 2 Pecks Skippers, 3 Green Cloverworm Moths, Many Tent Caterpillars (Dead, near an alive Caterpillar Tussock Moth), and 1 Lucerne Moth.

35 species (+3 other taxa)

Mourning Dove  5    Strong flight–hawk-like.

Chimney Swift  5

Killdeer  2    Flyovers.

Double-crested Cormorant  1

Great Blue Heron  1

Turkey Vulture  1

Accipiter sp.  1

Red-tailed Hawk  5    One mobbed by three RWBL.

Red-bellied Woodpecker  2

Willow Flycatcher  3

Alder/Willow Flycatcher (Traill’s Flycatcher)  X

Great Crested Flycatcher  2    One at entrance, also heard fweep calls from meadow.

Eastern Kingbird  1

crow sp.  1

Common Raven  2    ‘croak’ vocalizations.

Bank Swallow  5    Distinctive acrobatic flight, prominent breast band distinguished it from female TRES or NRWS.

Tree Swallow  5

Barn Swallow  5

Blue-gray Gnatcatcher  1    Entrance.

Gray Catbird  3

American Robin  5

House Finch  5

American Goldfinch  15    Around the same number of Dog Ticks counted on my leg

Chipping Sparrow  1

Savannah Sparrow  2    Solar panels, possible begging behavior.

Song Sparrow  10

Swamp Sparrow  3

Eastern Towhee  2

Bobolink  2    Singing “R2D2” song, distinctive black and white pattern.

Orchard Oriole  1

Red-winged Blackbird  X

Brown-headed Cowbird  1

Common Grackle  2

Ovenbird  1    Rapid “Teacher Teacher” song.

Common Yellowthroat  4

Yellow Warbler  5

Northern Cardinal  4

Rose-breasted Grosbeak  2

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S183260570