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

Bolton Flats WMA , Worcester, Massachusetts, US
Sep 25, 2016 8:00 AM – 10:55 AM
Protocol: Traveling
2.0 mile(s)
Comments:     Brookline Bird Club trip lead by Jonathan Center. Area covered during the walk were the fields and paths adjacent to the Nashua River north of the main parking lot off rt. 117. One of each species of butterflies observed while birding were Viceroy, Orange Sulphur, Clouded Sulphur, Red Admiral, Pearl Crescent, Black Swallowtail, and a skipper species.
22 species (+1 other taxa)

Canada Goose  4
Turkey Vulture  4
Northern Harrier  1
Sharp-shinned Hawk  1
Red-tailed Hawk  2
Buteo sp.  3
Downy Woodpecker  2
Northern Flicker  1
Eastern Phoebe  5
Blue Jay  12
American Crow  8
Black-capped Chickadee  1
White-breasted Nuthatch  1
American Robin  2
Gray Catbird  5
Northern Mockingbird  5
European Starling  8
Palm Warbler (Western)  1
White-throated Sparrow  1
Song Sparrow  1
Swamp Sparrow  2
Red-winged Blackbird  7
American Goldfinch  2

View this checklist online at http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S31835120

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