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Appleton Farms (TTOR), Essex, Massachusetts, US

Jun 1, 2026 8:20 AM – 11:13 AM

Protocol: Traveling

1.082 mile(s)

Checklist Comments:    Brookline Bird Club “Bring Back Bobolinks” trip to Appleton Farms including birding walk, focused on bobolinks, and nature journaling and sketching discussion.  Cold, gray start gradually improving through 3 hour period.  

(Flycatcher sp confirmed as olive sided flycatcher)

51 species

Canada Goose  1

Blue-winged Teal  1

Mallard  2

Mourning Dove  2

Chimney Swift  7

Killdeer  3

American Herring Gull  2

Glossy Ibis  1

Great Egret  1

Turkey Vulture  1

Red-tailed Hawk  1

Red-bellied Woodpecker  4

Downy Woodpecker  2

Northern Flicker  2

Olive-sided Flycatcher  1

Eastern Wood-Pewee  2

Eastern Phoebe  2

Great Crested Flycatcher  7

Eastern Kingbird  5

Eastern Warbling Vireo  2

Blue Jay  2

American Crow  5

Black-capped Chickadee  2

Tufted Titmouse  1

Tree Swallow  9

Barn Swallow  11

White-breasted Nuthatch  2

European Starling  2

Gray Catbird  1

Northern Mockingbird  2

Eastern Bluebird  13

American Robin  2

Cedar Waxwing  1

House Sparrow  8

House Finch  2

American Goldfinch  11

Chipping Sparrow  4

Savannah Sparrow  2

Song Sparrow  2

Swamp Sparrow  1

Bobolink  17

Baltimore Oriole  5

Red-winged Blackbird  15

Brown-headed Cowbird  1

Common Grackle  4

Ovenbird  1

Common Yellowthroat  5

Northern Yellow Warbler  2

Pine Warbler  2

Yellow-rumped Warbler  1

Rose-breasted Grosbeak  2

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S351746448

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ANNUAL REPORT 1978

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ANNUAL REPORT 1977

1977 STATISTICAL REPORT  The Brookline Bird Club identified 296 species of birds in Massachusetts during 1977, including 17 additions to the Massachusetts Audubon Society Check List as follows:  McCown's Longspur               Bridgewater                1-16  Sandhill Crane                        Bridgewater                1-22  Red-bellied Woodpecker        Southwick                   2-13  Gyrfalcon                                Newburyport              3-5  [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1975

1975 STATISTICAL REPORT During 1975 the Brookline Bird Club identified 804 species (plus two hybrids) and listed among these, 22 write-ins on the Massachusetts Audubon Society Check List. A selective list of these write-ins follows: [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1979

1979 STATISTICAL REPORT  Gray birds gathered us together in 1979. Their fleeting lives were long journeys. While we wondered at the mystery of their comings, and listened to the learned explanations, didn't we delight in [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1978

1978 STATISTICAL REPORT When he came to grene wode,In a merry mornyngeThere he herde the notes smallOf byrdes mery syngynge. Two wayward birds joined the BBC Massachusetts Life List in 1978. The first. a brilliant yellow, black, [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1977

1977 STATISTICAL REPORT  The Brookline Bird Club identified 296 species of birds in Massachusetts during 1977, including 17 additions to the Massachusetts Audubon Society Check List as follows:  McCown's Longspur               Bridgewater                1-16  Sandhill Crane                        Bridgewater                1-22  Red-bellied Woodpecker        Southwick                   2-13  Gyrfalcon                                Newburyport              3-5  [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1975

1975 STATISTICAL REPORT During 1975 the Brookline Bird Club identified 804 species (plus two hybrids) and listed among these, 22 write-ins on the Massachusetts Audubon Society Check List. A selective list of these write-ins follows: [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1979

1979 STATISTICAL REPORT  Gray birds gathered us together in 1979. Their fleeting lives were long journeys. While we wondered at the mystery of their comings, and listened to the learned explanations, didn't we delight in [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1978

1978 STATISTICAL REPORT When he came to grene wode,In a merry mornyngeThere he herde the notes smallOf byrdes mery syngynge. Two wayward birds joined the BBC Massachusetts Life List in 1978. The first. a brilliant yellow, black, [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1977

1977 STATISTICAL REPORT  The Brookline Bird Club identified 296 species of birds in Massachusetts during 1977, including 17 additions to the Massachusetts Audubon Society Check List as follows:  McCown's Longspur               Bridgewater                1-16  Sandhill Crane                        Bridgewater                1-22  Red-bellied Woodpecker        Southwick                   2-13  Gyrfalcon                                Newburyport              3-5  [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1975

1975 STATISTICAL REPORT During 1975 the Brookline Bird Club identified 804 species (plus two hybrids) and listed among these, 22 write-ins on the Massachusetts Audubon Society Check List. A selective list of these write-ins follows: [...]

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