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Brook Farm and Gethsemane Cemetery, Suffolk, Massachusetts, US

May 2, 2026 8:00 AM – 9:30 AM

Protocol: Traveling

0.7 mile(s)

Checklist Comments:    Brookline Bird Club Bird Walk to Brook Farm, co-led by Mike McCarthy & Neil Calabro 5-2-26

Temperature: 49 – 53°F

Wind: Light breeze – gentle breeze

25 species

Canada Goose  4

Wood Duck  4

Wild Turkey  1

Red-bellied Woodpecker  1

Downy Woodpecker (Eastern)  1

Eastern Phoebe  1

Great Crested Flycatcher  2

Blue Jay  3

American Crow  1

Black-capped Chickadee  2

Tufted Titmouse  2

White-breasted Nuthatch (Eastern)  1

Northern House Wren (Northern)  1

Eastern Bluebird  2

American Robin  5

American Goldfinch  4

Chipping Sparrow  4

Swamp Sparrow  4

Baltimore Oriole  4

Red-winged Blackbird (Red-winged)  6

Brown-headed Cowbird  1

Common Grackle (Bronzed)  4

Northern Yellow Warbler  2

Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle)  2

Northern Cardinal  2

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S332096192

Millennium Park–West Roxbury High School Marsh, Suffolk, Massachusetts, US

May 2, 2026 9:27 AM – 10:37 AM

Protocol: Traveling

0.233 mile(s)

Checklist Comments:    Brookline Bird Club walk, Neil Calabro and Mike McCarthy co-leaders. 

Temperature: 53°F

Wind: Light breeze – gentle breeze

42 species

Canada Goose  10

Mute Swan  5

Mallard  1

Mourning Dove  3

Chimney Swift  12    Flock flying around the high school and marsh

Killdeer  1

Solitary Sandpiper  1

Greater Yellowlegs  1

American Herring Gull  2

Great Blue Heron (Great Blue)  1

Turkey Vulture  1

Cooper’s Hawk  2

Red-tailed Hawk (borealis)  1    Immature

Red-bellied Woodpecker  2

Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted)  2

Eastern Warbling Vireo  2

Blue Jay  2

American Crow  1

Common Raven  1

Black-capped Chickadee  1

Tufted Titmouse  2

Tree Swallow  24

Northern Rough-winged Swallow  4

Barn Swallow (American)  6

Carolina Wren  1

European Starling  2

Northern Mockingbird  2

American Robin  4

Cedar Waxwing  18

House Sparrow  4

White-throated Sparrow  2

Savannah Sparrow (Savannah)  1

Song Sparrow (melodia/atlantica)  3

Swamp Sparrow  2

Baltimore Oriole  2

Red-winged Blackbird (Red-winged)  7

Common Grackle (Bronzed)  7

Northern Parula  2

Northern Yellow Warbler  3

Palm Warbler (Yellow)  1

Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle)  6

Northern Cardinal  2

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S332096177

Millennium Park, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, US

May 2, 2026 10:50 AM – 12:20 PM

Protocol: Traveling

1.25 mile(s)

Checklist Comments:    Brookline Bird Club Bird Walk to Brook Farm, co-led by Mike McCarthy & Neil Calabro 5-2-26

Temperature: 55 – 56°F

Wind: Mostly calm – moderate breeze

37 species

Canada Goose  2

Mute Swan  1

Mallard  6

Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon)  3

Mourning Dove  3

Chimney Swift  3

Killdeer  2

Spotted Sandpiper  1

Ring-billed Gull  2

Double-crested Cormorant  52    Flying over heading NNE

Great Blue Heron (Great Blue)  1

Osprey (American)  2    On probable nest on cell phone tower platform in Nat Grid parking lot

Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted)  2

Eastern Phoebe  2

Eastern Warbling Vireo  1

Blue Jay  4

American Crow  3

Fish Crow  2

Black-capped Chickadee  1

Tree Swallow  2

Barn Swallow (American)  2

White-breasted Nuthatch (Eastern)  1

European Starling  14

Gray Catbird  4

Northern Mockingbird  6

American Robin  6

House Sparrow  9

American Goldfinch  5

White-throated Sparrow  4

Savannah Sparrow  4

Song Sparrow (melodia/atlantica)  3

Orchard Oriole  1

Red-winged Blackbird (Red-winged)  8

Brown-headed Cowbird  3

Common Grackle (Bronzed)  22

Northern Yellow Warbler  8

Rose-breasted Grosbeak  1

View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/checklist/S332096161

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