Brookline Bird Club – America’s most active bird club!

Arlington Reservoir, Middlesex, Massachusetts, US

14-Apr-2024 07:02 – 08:57

Protocol: Traveling

1.17 mile(s)

Checklist Comments:    Menotomy and BBC bird walk. 20 people at the outset.

34 species (+1 other taxa)

Mallard  5

American Black Duck  2

Green-winged Teal  5

Bufflehead  3

Ruddy Duck  18

Mourning Dove  4

Killdeer  4

Herring Gull  1

Great Black-backed Gull  1

Great Blue Heron  1

Red-tailed Hawk  1    caught food. Probably a squirrel.

hawk sp.  3    just wasn’t sure. My first impression was osprey. 3 bird cirling in the sun direction. I couldn’t see any red on the tails. Fair mount of patterning on the under wing. Maybe dark shoulders, but I just wasn’t confident of ID.

Red-bellied Woodpecker  1

Downy Woodpecker  3

Northern Flicker  2

Eastern Phoebe  1

Blue Jay  6

American Crow  2

Black-capped Chickadee  4

Tufted Titmouse  2

Tree Swallow  6

Ruby-crowned Kinglet  1

White-breasted Nuthatch  2

European Starling  3

American Robin  13

House Sparrow  4

American Goldfinch  11

Chipping Sparrow  1

White-throated Sparrow  2

Song Sparrow  7

Red-winged Blackbird  10

Common Grackle  7

Palm Warbler  2

Yellow-rumped Warbler  1

Northern Cardinal  2

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S168657337

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