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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

ANNUAL REPORT 1985

STATISTICAL REPORT 1985 by Mary L. Barnett, Statistician “Come in, Barn Owl. We're at the Salt Pans. The Tundra Swan just landed.” BBC CB Radio Patrol 12-7-1985 The Birding Highlight of 1985 was the proliferation [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1984

STATISTICAL REPORT-1984  Our Life List is a storehouse of rich memories to which we added this year the monarch of shorebirds, the Long-billed Curlew, on the 9th of June. Like an echo, to the same [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1983

1983 BROOKLINE BIRD CLUB STATISTICAL REPORT During 1983 the Brookline Bird Club listed 300 Massachusetts species, and identified an additional six hybrids, subspecies, color morphs, or exotics, totaling 306 in all. Trips to Maine added [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1982

1982 STATISTICAL REPORT  In 1982 the Brookline Bird Club enriched its Massachu-setts Life Species List to 376 with the addition of Townsend's Solitaire, viewed at West Tisbury on January 3rd. Dr. Bob Timberlake’s Falmouth trip [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1981

1981 STATISTICAL REPORT “My heart is warm with the friends I make And better friends I'll not be knowing There isn’t a [bird trip] I wouldn’t take No matter where it’s going!” (with apologies to [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1980

1980 STATISTICAL REPORT  During 1980 the Brookline Bird Club observed 313 species of birds as follows: Massachusetts, 299 species; New Hampshire, two additional species; New Jersey to North Carolina, 12 additional species. The 14 species [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1985

STATISTICAL REPORT 1985 by Mary L. Barnett, Statistician “Come in, Barn Owl. We're at the Salt Pans. The Tundra Swan just landed.” BBC CB Radio Patrol 12-7-1985 The Birding Highlight of 1985 was the proliferation [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1984

STATISTICAL REPORT-1984  Our Life List is a storehouse of rich memories to which we added this year the monarch of shorebirds, the Long-billed Curlew, on the 9th of June. Like an echo, to the same [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1983

1983 BROOKLINE BIRD CLUB STATISTICAL REPORT During 1983 the Brookline Bird Club listed 300 Massachusetts species, and identified an additional six hybrids, subspecies, color morphs, or exotics, totaling 306 in all. Trips to Maine added [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1982

1982 STATISTICAL REPORT  In 1982 the Brookline Bird Club enriched its Massachu-setts Life Species List to 376 with the addition of Townsend's Solitaire, viewed at West Tisbury on January 3rd. Dr. Bob Timberlake’s Falmouth trip [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1981

1981 STATISTICAL REPORT “My heart is warm with the friends I make And better friends I'll not be knowing There isn’t a [bird trip] I wouldn’t take No matter where it’s going!” (with apologies to [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1980

1980 STATISTICAL REPORT  During 1980 the Brookline Bird Club observed 313 species of birds as follows: Massachusetts, 299 species; New Hampshire, two additional species; New Jersey to North Carolina, 12 additional species. The 14 species [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1985

STATISTICAL REPORT 1985 by Mary L. Barnett, Statistician “Come in, Barn Owl. We're at the Salt Pans. The Tundra Swan just landed.” BBC CB Radio Patrol 12-7-1985 The Birding Highlight of 1985 was the proliferation [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1984

STATISTICAL REPORT-1984  Our Life List is a storehouse of rich memories to which we added this year the monarch of shorebirds, the Long-billed Curlew, on the 9th of June. Like an echo, to the same [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1983

1983 BROOKLINE BIRD CLUB STATISTICAL REPORT During 1983 the Brookline Bird Club listed 300 Massachusetts species, and identified an additional six hybrids, subspecies, color morphs, or exotics, totaling 306 in all. Trips to Maine added [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1982

1982 STATISTICAL REPORT  In 1982 the Brookline Bird Club enriched its Massachu-setts Life Species List to 376 with the addition of Townsend's Solitaire, viewed at West Tisbury on January 3rd. Dr. Bob Timberlake’s Falmouth trip [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1981

1981 STATISTICAL REPORT “My heart is warm with the friends I make And better friends I'll not be knowing There isn’t a [bird trip] I wouldn’t take No matter where it’s going!” (with apologies to [...]

ANNUAL REPORT 1980

1980 STATISTICAL REPORT  During 1980 the Brookline Bird Club observed 313 species of birds as follows: Massachusetts, 299 species; New Hampshire, two additional species; New Jersey to North Carolina, 12 additional species. The 14 species [...]

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