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Birch Hill WMA, Worcester, Massachusetts, US

Jul 19, 2026 6:30 AM – 10:30 AM

Protocol: Traveling

2.2 mile(s)

Checklist Comments:    BBC/Athol Bird & Nature Club trip; Glenn d’Entremont & Ernie LeBlanc leaders; 9 participants

43 species

Wood Duck  3

Mourning Dove  11

Great Blue Heron (Great Blue)  1

Turkey Vulture  2

Osprey (American)  2

Yellow-bellied Sapsucker  4

Red-bellied Woodpecker  2

Downy Woodpecker (Eastern)  2

Hairy Woodpecker (Eastern)  3

Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted)  6

Eastern Wood-Pewee  1

Eastern Phoebe  7

Eastern Kingbird  11

Red-eyed Vireo  4

Blue Jay  50    large group of 40 moving through Priest Brook not quietly; likely undercounted

American Crow  1

Common Raven  1

Black-capped Chickadee  7

Barn Swallow (American)  11

White-breasted Nuthatch (Eastern)  2

Red-breasted Nuthatch  6

Northern House Wren  1

European Starling  X

Gray Catbird  4

Eastern Bluebird  2

Hermit Thrush  1

American Robin  8

Cedar Waxwing  11

Purple Finch (Eastern)  1

American Goldfinch  1

Chipping Sparrow  25

Field Sparrow  12

White-throated Sparrow  1

Song Sparrow  11

Swamp Sparrow  1

Eastern Towhee  18

Baltimore Oriole  5

Common Grackle  53

Common Yellowthroat  6

Pine Warbler  4

Prairie Warbler  2

Scarlet Tanager  2

Rose-breasted Grosbeak  1    female or juv

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S378762609

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: [...]

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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