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

Belle Isle Marsh Reservation, Suffolk, Massachusetts, US

Feb 21, 2026 1:26 PM – 3:28 PM

Protocol: Traveling

0.661 mile(s)

Checklist Comments:    Joint BBC/BNC Walk

Leaders: Correne George, Mike McCarthy, Neil Calabro & Samuel Harris

Intermediate Mid Tide

23 species

American Black Duck  28

Bufflehead  32

Common Goldeneye  6

Red-breasted Merganser  13

Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon)  100

Mourning Dove  9

Ring-billed Gull  4

American Herring Gull  20

Red-tailed Hawk (borealis)  1

Rough-legged Hawk  1    Light morph with pale brown upperbody, pale head, white & banded tail, largely white underwing, black ‘wrists’ & primaries, and thick black belly striations

Downy Woodpecker (Eastern)  3

Blue Jay  1

Black-capped Chickadee  2

Tufted Titmouse  1

European Starling  56

American Robin  4

House Sparrow  25

House Finch  44    38 flying 6 perched

American Goldfinch  40    In the birches eating catkins by first observation deck

American Tree Sparrow  6

Song Sparrow (melodia/atlantica)  3

Red-winged Blackbird (Red-winged)  23

Northern Cardinal  1

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S303258952

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