Winchendon/Royalston, Birch Hill WMA, Worcester, Massachusetts, US

Jul 13, 2024 6:45 AM – 10:30 AM

Protocol: Traveling

3.5 mile(s)

Checklist Comments:    BBC/Athol B&N club trip; Glenn d’Entremont & Ernie LeBlanc leaders, 5 participants

49 species

Mourning Dove  8

Yellow-billed Cuckoo  1

Yellow-bellied Sapsucker  4

Downy Woodpecker (Eastern)  4

Hairy Woodpecker (Eastern)  4

Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted)  8

Eastern Wood-Pewee  2

Alder Flycatcher  2

Eastern Phoebe  5

Eastern Kingbird  10

Blue-headed Vireo  2

Red-eyed Vireo  12

Blue Jay  4

American Crow  5

Common Raven  3

Black-capped Chickadee  14

Bank Swallow  10

Tree Swallow  200

White-breasted Nuthatch (Eastern)  4

Red-breasted Nuthatch  3

House Wren  5

European Starling  X

Gray Catbird  6

Eastern Bluebird  6

Veery  6

Hermit Thrush  4

American Robin  17

Cedar Waxwing  12

Purple Finch (Eastern)  3

American Goldfinch  4

Chipping Sparrow  20

Field Sparrow  6

White-throated Sparrow  3

Song Sparrow  13

Swamp Sparrow  2

Eastern Towhee  19

Baltimore Oriole  6

Red-winged Blackbird (Red-winged)  10

Common Grackle  6

Ovenbird  2

Black-and-white Warbler  4

Common Yellowthroat  11

American Redstart  1

Yellow Warbler (Northern)  2

Pine Warbler  10

Prairie Warbler  5

Scarlet Tanager  6

Northern Cardinal  1

Rose-breasted Grosbeak  1    female

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S187615743

BBC daily field trips to Mount Auburn are back!

It’s that time of year again! The Brookline Bird Club will be leading daily birding trips through Mount Auburn Cemetery, an oasis for migrating birds, this spring from Wednesday April 17th through Sunday May 26th

BBC daily field trips to Mount Auburn are back!

It’s that time of year again! The Brookline Bird Club will be leading daily birding trips through Mount Auburn Cemetery, an oasis for migrating birds, this spring from Wednesday April 17th through Sunday May 26th

BBC daily field trips to Mount Auburn are back!

It’s that time of year again! The Brookline Bird Club will be leading daily birding trips through Mount Auburn Cemetery, an oasis for migrating birds, this spring from Wednesday April 17th through Sunday May 26th

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